It was founded in 1982 by Christopher Seton-Watson, a historian of liberal Italy,[1] and each year hosts a number of events including lectures, a postgraduate summer school and an international two-day conference.
It also sponsors prizes and a variety of academic programmes and initiatives around the world devoted to the study of modern Italy.
The themes of its annual conference have ranged from topics as diverse as migration, colonialism and law and order, to emotions, regionalism, the Italian crisis and war.
It is one of the leading journals of Italian Studies and it publishes peer-reviewed academic articles across a broad range of disciplines.
Modern Italy, which is currently published by Cambridge University Press, is issued four times a year.