Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War.

In today’s edition we have news of a route to commemorate victims of Franco in Espera, another mass grave being found in Trebujena, the PSOE accuses right-wing and far right parties of attacking historical memory and there’s a brand new book in English which will delight those with an interestSeguir leyendo…

Francis Silva, entevistado por Debbie Eade para La Voz de la Memoria.

The Forum for Historical Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar, in collaboration with the Government of Gibraltar, is publishing a book about the José Luis Díez, the republican ship which was disguised as a British destroyer to try to pass through the blockaded Straits of Gibraltar during the Spanish CivilSeguir leyendo…

Estación: María Zambrano, de Sofía Ugena Sancho, es un viaje, un transitar poético a través de los siglos.

The second phase of exhumations in Jimena de la Frontera has now finished. The Cádiz provincial government has published a book by the late Carlos Perales Pizarro. The Casa de la Memoria Association has signed a cooperation agreement with Los Barrios council. Guadalajara is holding a series of cultural eventsSeguir leyendo…

Norman Bethune realiza una transfusión a un herido durante la Guerra Civil. (Library and Archives Canada)

Sebastian Browne, doctor en Historia, miembro de la Associate Lecturer de la School of Humanities de la Canterbury Christ Church University, ofrece una conferencia titulada La sanidad en la guerra. Esta intervención, que se emite en inglés y castellano, se enmarca en el ciclo Golpe, guerra y represión, organizado porSeguir leyendo…

La Voz de la Memoria in english.

On Sunday 20 June a book called Testimonios was presented in Jimena. Cádiz city hall has removed a plaque from a building in which the poet José María Pemán was born. In Valencia, two people have been fined 4,000 euros each for carrying Francoist flags. In Murcia, the regional governmentSeguir leyendo…

La Voz de la Memoria in english.

In the news this episode: Josep Almudéver, the last surviving member of the International Brigades. The Francisco Franco Foundation has lost its bid to stop street names being changed in Madrid. A new book tells the stories of 1,000 Argentinians who fought fascism in Spain. A ‘cultural’ mass grave inSeguir leyendo…

La Voz de la Memoria in english.

In the news this episode, podcasts of talks in our conference cycle, La Voz de la Memoria on local radio, preparations for more exhumations at Jimena de la Frontera cemetery, the Spanish government plans to return works of art to their rightful owners, and a gold and diamond dagger giftedSeguir leyendo…

The José Luis Díez in port before the events related in this article took place.

The name José Luis Díez will be familiar to those with a knowledge of Gibraltar’s history, but less so elsewhere. This Republican ship, which could be described as ‘lucky’ or ‘ill-fated’, depending on one’s point of view, caused diplomatic ructions with the Gibraltarian and British authorities after seeking refuge onSeguir leyendo…

Love And Revolutionary Greetings. An Ohio Boy In The Spanish Civil War.

When Laurie Levinger opened a box of old papers given to her by her father years earlier, she discovered letters and poems written by her uncle while he was fighting with the International Brigades. She has written a book about him, called Love and Revolutionary Greetings; An Ohio Boy inSeguir leyendo…