After twenty-six years in Barcelona, one of the world’s most prominent historians of twentieth-century Spain has moved back to the United States. Few foreign scholars command the respect and authority that Gabriel Jackson enjoys in Spain. For the past decade, Jackson has been working on a major biography of Juan Negrín, the Republic’s Prime...
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In a letter to the Washington Post, W. Royal Stokes fondly recalls Professor Knox's classes at Yale:

Professor Knox never spoke in class of his wartime experiences, namely, manning a machine gun in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 or parachuting behind enemy lines in France and commanding an infantry...
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The historian and activist Ceferino Álvarez died on August 27, La Voz de Asturias reports--less than two years after his legendary father, Ceferino Alvarez Rey, aka "El Jefe," who passed away in January last year. Álvarez, who published widely, was a leader of the Asociacion de Descendientes del Exilio and the movement...
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The UK National Archives have made available for public viewing 170 more Security Service files, including files on the International Brigade Association. The Archives' website provides access to other SCW-related materials as well, including the transcripts of interviews with Maurice Levine, one of the few Jewish volunteers in the British batallion....
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Select images from the legendary collection of Magnum, founded after World War II by Robert Capa, Chim, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, will be available as e-postcards through Paperless Post, a company specializing in electronic stationary, PR Newswire reports:

"We are excited to be collaborating with some of the most...
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The highly respected Spanish Civil War scholar Ángel Viñas, who recently completed an authoritative trilogy on the Republic and whose edited collection of essays on foreign diplomats during the war was published this summer, shares his findings on Stalin's role in Spain on WAIS, the listserv founded by the late Ronald Hilton:

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Legendary animated  film director Hayao Miyazaki said in an interview that he is considering a new film set during the Spanish Civil War. The film would be a sequel to his Porco Rosso, in which an Italian fighter ace is cursed with a pig's face after watching the spirits of killed pilots rise...
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At a ceremony in Glasgow's Clyde Street, the recently restored monument to the Scots volunteers who fought in Spain was rededicated, STV reports.

The last surviving Scot who served in the war, Thomas Watters, 97, was among those attending the event ... Over 2,000 volunteers went from the UK, and over...
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The local government of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which is ruled by the right-wing Partido Popular, is refusing to remove a monumental statue of Franco--despite the fact that 2007 Law of Historical Memory orders the disappearance from public spaces of all symbols invoking the dictatorship. As Público reports, officials are arguing that the sculpture is...
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An interesting piece by Alastair Sooke in the Telegraph:

If anything, the lens of the high-definition camera appears to have usurped the eye of the artist in today’s theatres of war. ... when it comes to modern warfare, has reportage superseded art altogether? I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently,...
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