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 […]
Here’s a video by Helen Le Brocq of the exhibition ‘Exile’/’Exilio’ at Wolfson College Gallery, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD, featuring artists Sonia Boué and Jonathan Moss preparing their installations, as well the exhibition’s opening on 11 January. The exhibition of paintings and video is on the theme of exile and the French […]
Richard Baxell reviews “No Other Way: Oxfordshire and the Spanish Civil War 1936-39” by Chris Farman, Valery Rose and Liz Woolley (Oxford International Brigade Memorial Committee: Oxford, 2015) £5 (special price ffrom the IBMT) When Paul Preston was promoting “The Spanish Holocaust”, his exhaustive account of the appalling atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil […]
There was an excellent leading article in the Oxford Times on 15 January about the IBMT’s plans for an International Brigade memorial in Oxford and in response to ‘No Other Way’, the new book about the Oxfordshire volunteers. The article, copied below, can be accessed here: www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/opinions/leader/11722727.Fitting_tribute To order ‘No Other Way’, send […]
A message from our colleagues in the AABI (Association of Friends of the International Brigades) in Madrid… A new year has begun which seems to herald important political changes. These changes will only become a reality if we are ready to fight for them. We hope that the victory of Syriza in Greece might […]
The IBMT is proud to announce publication of: ‘No Other War: Oxfordshire and the Spanish Civil War 1936-39’ by Chris Farman, Valery Rose and Liz Woolley, with a foreword by Professor Tom Buchanan, 124 pages, fully illustrated, £5 (plus £3 p&p). ‘No Other Way’ tells the untold story of the 31 men and […]
Happy birthday to Stan Hilton, the last surviving British International Brigader, who is 97 today (31 December 2014). Here is an article by David Leach about Stan Hilton, which first appeared in 2013 in IBMT Newsletter no.1-13. Since it was written, Stan has moved from Yarrawonga to a nursing home at Ocean Grove, Victoria, to be […]
2015 New Year greeting cards from the IBMT and our sister organisations in Denmark and the Netherlands. In the US, ALBA (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives) have produced this 4-minute video about their successes in 2014: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoAjMop733k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
From our US friends in ALBA comes news that the December 2014 issue of their magazine, The Volunteer, is now online, at www.albavolunteer.org featuring: NEW: Read the print edition in PDF on ISSUU News ALBA Institutes draw more than 80 teachers More than 80 high school teachers from New York City and New Jersey participated […]
New year greetings from our friends in the AABI, the Madrid-based Association of Friends of the International Brigades (www.brigadasinternacionales.org)… We want to send you our best wishes for the new year 2015 before we all get caught up in the usual whirlwind associated to this season, and we hope it brings us all a […]
