{{Short description|Italian historian}}
{{Infobox academic
|name=Eugenio F. Biagini
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1958|7|31|df=yes}}
|birth_place=[[Pietrasanta]], [[Italy]]
|occupation=Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
|alma_mater=[[University of Pisa]] [[Scuola Normale Superiore]]
|discipline=History
|honorific_suffix=[[FRHistS]]
}}

'''Eugenio F. Biagini''' is an Italian historian, specialising in democracy and liberalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, Ireland and Italy, and is currently Professor in Modern British and European History at the University of Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/efb21@cam.ac.uk|title=Prof Eugenio Biagini &#124; Faculty of History University of Cambridge}}</ref> He is best known for his work in [[free trade]] economics and ideology, the Italian [[risorgimento]], Irish national identity, and the religious dimension of popular radicalism in the nineteenth century.

==Biography==
He completed his bachelor's degree at the [[University of Pisa]] before completing his doctorate at the [[Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa]]. In the early 1990s he was based at [[Princeton University]], and in 1996 he moved to [[Cambridge University]], where he is currently Professor in Modern British and European History, and a fellow of [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge|Sidney Sussex College]].
Biagini is married to fellow academic [[Almut Hintze]] and has one son.

The Gladstone Club has said: "Of the many biographies of Gladstone his is the most concise but also arguably the most profound."<ref>‘[http://gladstoneclub.org/ The Gladstone Club]’, The Gladstone Club website. Retrieved 10 April 2010.</ref><ref>‘[https://methodisthistoryireland.org/events/test-event-two/ MHSI Annual Lecture]’ (18 October 2013), The Methodist Historical Society of Ireland website. Retrieved 27 October 2020.</ref> His 2007 work, ''British Democracy and Irish Nationalism 1876–1906'', was awarded the British Scholar Book of the Month for February 2009.<ref>‘[https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/british-history-after-1450/british-democracy-and-irish-nationalism-18761906?format=HB&isbn=9780521841764 British Democracy and Irish Nationalism 1876–1906]’, Cambridge University Press website. Retrieved 27 October 2020.</ref>

==Works==
*''Currents of  Radicalism. Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in  Britain, 1850-1914'' (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
**‘Currents of radicalism, 1850-1914’ (with Alastair J. Reid), pp.&nbsp;1–21.
**‘Popular Liberals, Gladstonian finance, and the debate on taxation, 1860-1874’, pp.&nbsp;134–162.
*''Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform. Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone. 1860-1880'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
*''Citizenship and Community. Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931'' (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
**‘Introduction: Citizenship, liberty and community’, pp.&nbsp;1–19.
**‘Liberalism and direct democracy: John Stuart Mill and the model of ancient Athens’, pp.&nbsp;21–44.
*''Gladstone'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).
*‘Exporting ‘Western & Beneficent Institutions’: Gladstone and Empire, 1880-1885’, in David Bebbington and Roger Swift (eds.), ''Gladstone Centenary Essays''  (Liverpool University Press, 2000), pp.&nbsp;202–224.
*''The Risorgimento and  the Unification of Italy'' (with Derek Beales) (Longmans, 2002).
*‘From Jacobin to Whig? Ugo Foscolo's "English" constitutional thought, 1816-1827’, ''European Journal of Political Theory'' (2005).
*''British Democracy and  Irish Nationalism, 1876-1906'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
*‘Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy, 1945-1953’, in E. H. H. Green and D. M. Tanner (eds.), ''The Strange Survival  of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of  Economic Debate'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp.&nbsp;212–246.
*''Giuseppe Mazzini and  the Globalization of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920'' (editor with [[Christopher Bayly]]) (Oxford University Press, 2008).
**‘Introduction’ (with Christopher Bayly), pp.&nbsp;1–11.
**‘Mazzini and Anticlericalism: The English Exile’, pp.&nbsp;145–166.
*''A History of European Democratic Thought'' (with Salvo Mastellone) (Longmans, 2011).
*‘Abraham Lincoln in Germany and Italy, 1859-1865’, in R. Carwardine and J. Sexton (eds.), ''The Global Lincoln'' (Oxford, 2011), pp.&nbsp;76–94.
*‘The politics of Italianism: ''Reynolds's Newspaper'', the Indian Mutiny and the Radical Critique of Liberal imperialism in Mid-Victorian Britain’, T. Crook, R. Gill and B. Taithe (eds.), ''Evil, Barbarism and Empire. Britain and Abroad c. 1830-2000'' (London, 2011), pp.&nbsp;99–125.

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110518051931/http://www.liberalhistory.org.uk/item_single.php?item_id=21&item=history Gladstonian Liberalism]
*[http://www.chester.ac.uk/news/2009/jul/10 Gladstone's legacy in today's politics]

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