AH News Publication
- The Co-operative Movement and the Current Crisis
- Centre for Digital Humanities - Events
- Centre for Early Modern Exchanges: Launch Conference - September
- Exhibition - Word and Image: Early Modern Treasures from the UCL Collections
- Leverhulme Trust Grant Awarded to Sacha Stern
- MA Disseration Prize
- We're now on Linkedin
- UCL in New York
- Teaching grammar to the iPhone generation
- Graduate Open Day - Wednesday 23 November 2011 - Register Now
- Bas Aarts receives Enterprise Award
- Word and image: A vision of the early modern world
- Book Launch - Neill Lochery
- Provost's Awards for Public Engagement
- QRator in the Horizon Report: Museum Edition
- New Documentary-track PhD
- Slade Open Studios
- Ulrich Tiedau elected as UCML area studies representative
- Rousseau 300: Nature, Self and State
- Provost's Strategic Development Fund
- Call for Papers - London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Literature (LINKS)
- Why Classical Studies is important
- Grant Museum wins Museums and Heritage Award for Excellence
- Funds awarded for Yale exchange
- Professor Lisa Jardine and CELL join UCL
- CICS and CES launch new Creative Critical Writing PhD
- Creative Thesis: Exploring the Parameters of the PhD Thesis
- A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
- UCL & I.B. Tauris Publishing Competition
- Between the lines
- Dr Stephanie Bird represents UCL in Beijing
- Beacon Bursaries Now Available
- Professor Miriam Leonard appears on Radio Australia
- Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, & Societies
- Dr Mark Hewitson awarded AHRC Fellowship
- 10 graduate studentships worth £5000 each available
- What Matters in Jane Austen? - Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
- PhD student wins Public Engagement award
- Professor Sacha Stern wins largest ever grant for A&H
- Call for Papers - Hermes Consortium Conference 2013
- The Philosophers' Magazine best books list revealed
- £5,000 Digital Humanities project starter prize
- Call for Proposals: Interdisciplinary Research Projects Scheme
- The Mafia's Secret Bunkers (1 May)
Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (FIGS) online
Visit the FIGS website for information about funding for graduate research activities.
Inaugural Lecture Series
Scholarships & Funding
The Mafia's Secret Bunkers (1 May)
23 April 2013
BBC2 'THIS WORLD'
MAY 1, 9PM
Based on unprecedented front-line access to Italy's specialist antimafia magistracy and all branches of the police, The Mafia's Secret Bunkers reports on the fight against the 'ndrangheta.
The 'ndrangheta is a freemasonry of criminals--a mafia; it is based in Calabria, the poor region at the 'toe' of the Italian 'boot'. Although it is well over a century old, the 'ndrangheta has remained below the radar of public awareness, and its inner workings mysterious even to the investigators charged with fighting it. Yet it is recognised to be the wealthiest and most powerful criminal organisation in Europe, with many branches established in Northern Italy, Northern Europe, North America, and even Australia.
Now a dramatic new phase in the 'ndrangheta's long history has opened. The Calabrian mafia's top secret coordinating committee, known as the Crime or the Great Crime, has been discovered. A mass round up has taken place. History-making trials are under way. In response, the 'ndrangheta's bosses have built fortified underground hideouts--bunkers-- so that they can avoid justice and keep command of their empires.
In the Mafia's Secret Bunkers, presenter Professor John Dickie of UCL follows the hunt for the 'ndrangheta's bunkers, which are often highly sophisticated, surprisingly extensive, and a remarkable symbol of organised crime's authority in the region. The programme is a co-production between History Channel Italia and the BBC. John Dickie's status as a leading authority on Italian organised crime was crucial in guaranteeing the access on which the programme is based.
John Dickie's new book, Mafia Republic, will be published on 8 May.
Image: © Poppy Berry
