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11/02/2025
Major archive collection to be digitised

The International Brigade archives at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School (MML) are to be digitised and put online in a major project that will run for the next 10 years. This important step will improve access and preservation of this internationally significant resource on the Spanish Civil War. The London-based library will partner […]

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07/02/2025
From the archives: Plaque to the 39 Scots who fell at Jarama

With the 2025 Jarama commemorations fast approaching, we revisit Mike Arnott's article in the IBMT Newsletter from July 2013 about the unveiling of a plaque in Tarancón to remember the Scots killed at the Battle of Jarama. This year, supporters will especially remember the recently passed Allan Craig Jr, son of Brigader Allan Craig.  In […]

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31/01/2025
Griff Maclaurin: from Cambridge to Madrid’s University City

In issue No.50 of ¡No Pasarán!, historian Mark Derby explored the short life of New Zealand International Brigader Griff Maclaurin, drawing on the 20-year-long correspondence between his sister and Gwen Davies, his friend at Cambridge University. Griff Maclaurin had been a brilliant mathematics student at Auckland University College in 1928-1931 and took up a postgraduate […]

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24/01/2025
New excavations begin to find mass grave

The Spanish Ministry of Democratic Memory and a team of specialist archaeologists from ArqueoAntro have resumed the search to find a mass grave containing the remains of 451 International Brigaders in Montecarmelo, Madrid. The excavation site behind Fuencarral cemetery. The banner says, 'Excavations in search of Brigaders'. Photo: AABI. The excavations, which began in mid-January, […]

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15/01/2025
Latest issue of IBMT magazine out to members

Cover: Bristol’s Red Notes Choir singing songs from the Spanish Civil War in Castle Park beneath the city’s memorial to the four Bristolians who died in Spain. Issue 1-2025 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has been emailed to all paid-up members. The first feature of this issue is David Grant's modern assessment of […]

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13/01/2025
Remembering Hugh Sloan

Jim Jump on the Fife coalminer, illustrator, poet and International Brigader who was ‘small in stature, large in life’ … Born on 21 August 1912 in Denbeath, Fife, Hugh Smith Sloan was the son of Elizabeth and Richard Sloan, a pit sinker and miner. The eldest of five, from an early age he developed a […]

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28/12/2024
Looking to the future: President's new year message

We have plenty to look forward to in 2025, with the autumn looking especially busy. In October, we’ll be in Belfast for the Trust’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) after 18 years away. I’d like to thank local members, particularly Lynda and Ernest Walker, of the IBMT-affiliated International Brigade Commemoration Committee, for their enthusiastic proposal – […]

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20/12/2024
Remembering John Cornford, Ralph Fox and the Battle of Lopera

Poet John Cornford and writer Ralph Fox were among 13 British and Irish International Brigaders remembered at an international symposium in Lopera, the town near Córdoba where they were killed during fighting 88 years ago. Seven of the 13 killed were Irish, reflecting the high proportion of volunteers from Ireland in the 145-strong English-speaking No.1 […]

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15/12/2024
IBMT 2024 raffle winners

The draw for the IBMT’s 2024 ¡No pasarán! raffle took place online on Wednesday 11 December 2024. Congratulations to all the winners – your prizes will be with you in the new year! First prize – £500 towards a weekend trip to Madrid including a personalised guided tour of the Prado museumWinner Brian Ferris 1st Second prize – Six […]

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03/12/2024
Sympathy without the sugar

Helen Oclee-Brown reviews ‘A Gypsy and a Rebel: Lillian Urmston in the Spanish Civil War’ by Linda Palfreeman and Alicia García López (The Clapton Press, 2024). Lillian Urmston was only 19 when she volunteered as a nurse in the Spanish Civil War. Driven by a strong sense of social justice, she went to Spain because […]

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21/11/2024
Food workers against fascism

Jim Jump writes… Apart from working in the food industry in the 1930s, what do bakery worker Basil Abrahams from London’s East End, Bristol cook William Dempsey, Fulham milk roundsman Les Gibson and Hartlepool chef Herbert Riding all have in common? They were among the dozens of bakers and food and hospitality workers who volunteered […]

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19/11/2024
Richard Baxell remembers George Wheeler

IBMT Historical Consultant Richard Baxell used his talk at the Trust's July 2024 commemoration in London's Jubilee Gardens to share the story of Battersea volunteer George Wheeler … I’d like to talk to you today about a British volunteer, who lived just down the road from here. He was one of many who were taken prisoner […]

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