Events

Screening at 7.30pm of Juan Antonio Bardem’s ‘Siete Días de Enero’ (‘Seven Days in January’; 1979, with English subtitles) at HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN. The film is a reconstruction of the 1977 Massacre of Atocha, when the neo-fascist La Triple A (Anti-Communist Apostolic Alliance) murdered five left-wing lawyers in an attempt to destabilise Spain’s return to democracy and provoke a coup d’état. Part of the 2017 ¡Viva!

A blue plaque is to be unveiled at 12pm at Lancing Library (Penstone Park, Lancing BN15 9DL), where in 1937 Penstone House welcomed a group of refugee Basque children from northern Spain. The library will be hosting an exhibition and there will be musical entertainment and food. Speakers include Jim Jump and Manuel Moreno of the IBMT. Event organised by Lancing Parish Council.

The Oxford International Brigade Memorial Committee is inviting IBMT members to the unveiling of a memorial to the volunteers from Oxfordshire at 12pm on Saturday 10 June at St Clement’s, Oxford, at the junction of Headington Hill and Morrell Avenue.

Public meeting 'Fighting Franco: British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39' at Friends' Meeting House, 43 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW, with doors opening at 7:30pm. Speakers include Professor Paul Preston, author of The Last Days of the Spanish Republic; Richard Baxell, Chair of the IBMT and author of Unlikely Warriors; Professor Valentine Cunningham, editor of The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse; and Carmen Negrin, granddaughter of Juan Negrin, the last prime minister of the Spanish Republic. Tickets are £5 on the door or £4 pre-booked.