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Photograph of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy, visiting Sabratha in Libya in 1926 and meeting local notables.

Italy occupied Ethiopia for five years, from 1935 to 1941, following a mass-scale invasion launched by the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945). However, Ethiopia had been a long-aimed colonial objective of Italy, which had already...

Can physical education be part of a totalitarian project to control and reshape the masses? Both the leader of Fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), and the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), believed that sports could...

One of the most coveted projects of Italian colonial policy was to secure an African colony in the Mediterranean. For this reason, Italy fought and won the Italo-Turkish war of 1911-1912 for the control of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. These...

Eritrea, located on the Red Sea coast of the Horn of Africa, was the ‘firstborn’ colony of Italy. The potential of a trade centre and naval base at Assab first attracted Italian interests in 1869. The Kingdom of Italy, however, did not officially...

A photograph showing (left to right) Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, respectively. They are about to sign the Munich Agreement of September 1938...

Monumental sculpture of the head of Benito Mussolini, the leader of fascist Italy from 1922 to 1945, realised in 1935 near Adwa, Ethiopia. The sculpture was later demolished during the Second World War (1939-45).

A photograph of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), leader of Fascist Italy, taken during the so-called "battle for wheat", a propaganda campaign launched in 1925 for self-sufficiency in wheat production

A photograph of the fascist leader of Italy, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), inspecting troops during the invasion of Abyssinia (1935-6).

A 1937 photograph of the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, initially called the 'Foro Mussolini' after Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy. It was designed in 1927 by architect Enrico Del Debbio, and then inaugurated...