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16/05/2015
'Without You I Would Not Exist'

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 […]

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11/05/2015
Rededication of Reading memorial

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 […]

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08/05/2015
On this 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany…

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 […]

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07/05/2015
Spanish elections: All change in 2015?

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 […]

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06/05/2015
International Brigade hospitals in Cuenca

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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03/05/2015
Latest IBMT Newsletter

The latest issue of our magazine is now out. It’s sent free to all IBMT members. If you're reading this and not an IBMT member, you can join here: www.international-brigades.org.uk/membership  

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22/04/2015
Review of 'No Other Way'

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 […]

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16/04/2015
Battalion banners and other Spanish Civil War artefacts on show at Marx Memorial Library

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 […]

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13/04/2015
Alicante and Cardiff commemorate a Welsh hero

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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12/04/2015
Looking in the Mirror

This was in the Paul Routledge column (every Friday in the Daily Mirror) on 3 April. To order your copy of this 'fascinating, instructive, heart-rending' book for just £15 including p&p, go to our Merchandise secton.

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08/04/2015
Welsh sea captain who rescued thousands in final days of Spanish Civil War

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 […]

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31/03/2015
Cypriots in the International Brigades

‘Spanish Thermopylae: the Cypriot Contribution to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War’ Talk given by Paul Philippou, University of Cyprus, 19-20 February 2015 Spanish Civil War scholarship has in the main reflected the ideological divisions of the Civil War and of the machinations of Cold War politics. This has been especially true of […]

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