The Malta Historical Society invites you to attend the public lecture ‘𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐳𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞-𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐒𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐞’ by Prof. Simon Mercieca Join us on Saturday 24 June 2023 at 10am At the Ministry for Gozo, Exhibition Hall, St Francis Square, Ir-Rabat, Gozo This event is kindly sponsored by The Alfred...

In nineteenth-century Gozo, a rural world in which personal disputes, revenge and jealousies were confined to the private domain, response remained at the level of private vendetta: burning the opponent’s fields, shooting with weak shot, or from a ‘safe’ distance to injure but not kill. The lecture will discuss how issues of this nature arose and tended to be resolved....