Events

The Catalan Observatory's screening of the film Pa Negre (Black Bread) in Catalan and Spanish, with English subtitles; 6pm in Room B34, Birbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX.

Seminar on ‘The bombings of Barcelona and London’ at the Imperial War Museum (Orpen Boardroom), Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ; 10am to 4,45pm. Organised jointly by the European Observatory on Memories and the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia. Speakers include historian Sir Anthony Beevor and journalist Chris Bambery.

‘Five Things You (Almost Certainly) Didn't Know About The Spanish Civil War’ hosted by David Ebsworth, whose second novel, ‘The Assassin’s Mark’, sees Jack Telford, a left-wing reporter, among an eccentric group of tourists on one of Franco’s battlefield tours during the civil war; 7.30pm at Write Blend books, South Road, Crosby, L22 0LJ.

Exhibition of posters from the Basque Children of ’37 Association UK telling the story of the nearly 4,000 Basque refugee children who arrived in Britain in May 1937; Eastleigh Library, Swan Shopping & Leisure Centre, Eastleigh SO50 5SF; 9.30am-5pm (Mon-Fri) and 9.30am-4.30pm (Sat).