We have today received this sad news from our friends in ACER, the French International Brigades memorial association… It is with profond sorrow that we have to inform you of the passing of the Brigader César Covo at the age of almost 103 years. Born in Bulgaria on 27 April 27 in a […]
Some images (below) by Marshall Mateer from our successful Len Crome Memorial Conference in Manchester on Saturday 7 March. The topic was ‘Guernica: The destruction of a town and the creation of a masterpiece’. The speakers were Nicholas Rankin (broadcaster and author): Making History: GL Steer and the Tree of Gernika; Gijs Van Hensbergen […]
A busy programme of activities to accompany the acclaimed 'Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War' has been announced by the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne (www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing-art-gallery): Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War Exhibition Tours & Events Listing Tours – exhibition ticket + £2, meet outside […]
Review in the latest issue of Unison’s U magazine of ‘A Spanish Civil War Scrapbook: Newspaper cuttings of the wars in Spain and China from August 1937 to May 1939”: https://www.unison.org.uk/u/spanish-civil-war-scrapbook Published jointly by the IBMT and Lawrence & Wishart, the 212-page book, with contributions by Rodney Bickerstaffe, Jim Jump and Paul Preston and […]
Using Google Maps, our friends in the Dutch International Brigades memorial association Stichting Spanje 1936-1939 have made a start at identifying all memorials to the International Brigades in Europe. Their work so far can be seen here: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zMoy1oBA-aSI.kCJL4guaG2hg All the infomation about memorials in Britain and Ireland for the “Spanish Civil War Memorials” […]
Charles Donnelly was a journalist, poet and Irish Republican, born in Dungannon, Co Tyrone, in 1914. In Dublin he was twice gaoled for his trade union activities, in 1934 and 1935, after which he moved to London, where he joined the Spanish Medical Aid Committee following the outbreak of the war in Spain. He arrived […]
Photos and video from last weekend’s Battle of Jarama commemoration organised by our Madrid-based friends in AABI (Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales) Photos by Óscar Rodríguez https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/116392862176807921047/albums/6118828678952392753 Photos by Bernard Kolter https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fig0u9nrfscqcfx/AACkgF-FC-NQtHLMbyUZs9h6a?dl=0 Vídeo by Carlos Melchor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6gn_sMVPU Report in Diagonal newspaper (in Spanish) https://www.diagonalperiodico.net/saberes/25814-centenares-personas-rinden-homenaje-brigadas-internacionales-78-aniversario-la-batalla
Guernica: The destruction of a town and the creation of a masterpiece Saturday, 7 March 2015, 11am-5pm, Manchester Conference Centre (Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB) International Brigade Memorial Trust’s annual Len Crome Memorial Conference A public lecture day in Manchester on 7 March will focus on the 1937 bombing of the historic Basque […]
Two mini videos are now on IBMTnews and Flickr showing clips from the commemorative tour of Aragon last October. There are extended notes underneath each (scroll down): John Cornford: Jane Bernal reads the poem ‘Full Moo at Tierz: Before the Storming of Huesca’ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibmt/16480436801/ Felicia Browne: Glenda Browne reads out a report of […]
We are very sad to learn of the death of Martin Green (born Stockport 10 July 1932, died St Austell 4 February 2015). Martin was a founder member of the International Brigade Memorial Trust and for many years was one of its most active supporters. As a young boy he was attended AS Neill’s Summerhill […]
Message from the AABI International Brigades friendship group in Madrid… We only have two weeks to go until Jarama weekend, and we would like to invite you to attend the events we have organised for the days before and after the March. Please find below the revised programme for February 19th to 22nd, which […]
The IBMT is pleased to announce publication of: ‘A Spanish Civil War Scrapbook: Elizabeth Pearl Bickerstaffe’s newspaper cuttings of the wars in Spain and China from August 1937 to May 1939’ Jim Jump (Editor) Introduction by Paul Preston Foreword by Rodney Bickerstaffe Normal retail price is £25. Available to IBMT members and […]
