Events

‘Carito y Marina: From Bilbao to Dartington’: a weekend of events, public discussions and exhibitions at Dartington Hall, Totnes TQ9 6EL, celebrating the lives and legacy of the Rodríguez sisters, Carito and Marina, who arrived in Britain as child refugees from the S

Remembering the nearly 100 Basque refugee children in Wickham Market (Suffolk): jointly organised by Wickham Market Area Archive Centre and the BCA’37UK Basque Children’s association. Featuring the unveiling of a commemorative plaque, an exhibition and talks by historian Adrian Bell and Ed Packard (University of Suffolk). Wickham Market Village Hall, High Street, Woodbridge IP13 0HE from 11am-4pm. See: 

Unveiling of a plaque in the municipal cemetery of El Perelló, near Tarragona, to mark the remains of two British Battalion members, John Ferguson and James Scott, in a mass grave where the bodies of many Spanish Republicans are also buried. The unveiling coincides with the 80th anniversary of the final action of the British Battalion in the Battle of the Ebro. More details, including confirmation of date, to follow.

Film screening: ‘En tierra extraña’ (In a Foreign Land) by Icíar Bollaín (Spain, 2014, 72 mins) in Spanish with English subtitles. 6.30pm at the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ). Organised by the Language Centre-LSE, Cañada Blanch Centre, Instituto Cervantes, and University of Roehampton.