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Tickets are now on sale for a gala evening to mark the 75th anniversary of the return of the British Battalion from Spain. The event will take place at the Rich Mix arts centre in London, along with other activities earlier in the day on Saturday 7 December 2013 – 75 years to the day that the volunteers arrived home at London’s Victoria Station to be greeted by thousands of supporters.

Pictured: Cllr Alan Rhodes, leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, and Cllr John Allin, Chair of the Council, lay a wreath in honour of the Notts men who died in Spain and all the others who fought against Fascism.

Speech by IBMT President Marlene Sidaway at the ceremony to reinstate the information board next to the memorial to the International Brigades at County Hall, Nottingham, headquarters of Nottinghamshire County Council, on Saturday 27 July 2013…

The IBMT is asking supporters to lobby their MP to sign Early Day Motion 204, which has been tabled in Parliament by a group of Labour MPs, calling on the British government to make representations to the Spanish government about the threat to the Madrid memorial to the International Brigades. The motion can be found here: http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2013-14/204

NEARLY twenty years ago, Angela Jackson, then beginning the research for her doctorate, conducted an interview with a woman who, many years before, had worked as a nurse in Republican Spain during the civil war. The story that Angela was told that day by her eighty year old interviewee, Patience Edney (née Darton), became an important part of a ground-breaking thesis. It also led to a well-received book which, like this one, was published within the Cañada Blanch series on contemporary Spain.