Our sister association in France, ACER, has sent us a dissertation by Bertrand Largeaud, a postgraduate student at the Sorbonne University, Paris, about the British volunteers in the International Brigades and the changing public perception of them over the past 80 years. ACER this year gave an award to the study, which is in French […]
Oxford-based artists Sonia Boué and Jonathan Moss have produced this art film, ‘Without You I Would Not Exist’, about exile and the Spanish Civil War. Running for over 14 minutes, the film sees Sonia Boué use objects to explore the experience of her Spanish Republican father who first arrived to Oxfordshire to work in a […]
The fully restored memorial to the International Brigade volunteers from Reading was unveiled at its new location in Forbury Gardens on 10 May. Among those in attendance was the memorial’s sculptor, Eric Stanford, now aged 82, who had also been present on 5 May 1990 when the memorial was unveiled at its original site outside […]
To mark VE Day and the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism, here's an extract from the current issue of the IBMT Newsletter (2-2015). Our photo shows Spanish Republican prisoners greeting Allied troops liberating the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945. No equivalence between fascism and communism of the volunteers By Jim […]
Justin Byrne looks forward to elections in Spain that will be a test both for the traditional two-party system and for new parties for ‘indignant’ voters. Regional elections in Andalusia on 28 March marked the start of an almost full round of elections in Spain this year. Voters all over the country will go […]
Great footage in this new 6.5 min video about International Brigade hospitals in Cuenca province during the Spanish Civil War. The film was produced by the Cuenca Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory.www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsdf7xe0fw
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This review appeared in the Morning Star on 20 April 2015 (www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b918-Voluntary-valour-in-Spanish-civil-war...)… No Other Way: Oxfordshire and the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 by Chris Farman, Valery Rose and Liz Woolley (Oxford IBMC, £8) Review by Graham Stevenson NO OTHER Way is an exemplar of the local historical research which merits emulation in […]
A “hidden gem” of London’s radical and working class history has opened its doors properly to the public for the first time. The Marx Memorial Library (MML) is now offering guided tours twice weekly. This will allow people to see the two banners of the British Battalion in the Spanish Civil War One […]
Press release from Labour International 12 April 2015 Labour International Costa Blanca Branch arranged for a delegation of 19 Spanish members of the Alicante Civic Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory to visit Cardiff on 11 and 12 April to present a memorial plaque to the city at a ceremony hosted by the […]
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The “Welsh Schindler” of the Spanish Civil War, who rescued thousands of Spaniards from advancing fascist troops, is to be remembered in Cardiff this weekend (11/12 April 2015). A group of Spaniards will travel from Alicante to Cardiff and join local groups in honouring Cardiff sea captain Archibald Dickson. Dickson was the master […]
