The trailer was just released for There Be Dragons, a new film by Roland Joffé (The Mission, The Killing Fields), the narrative of which starts out during the Spanish Civil War, as the movie's Facebook page explains:
There Be Dragons is an epic action-adventure-romance set during the turmoil of...
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The International Center of Photography is working full-speed to prepare for a major exhibit with images from the so-called "Mexican Suitcase"--the long-considered-lost negative archive of Spanish Civil War photographs by Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, and Gerda Taro. Scheduled to open on September 24, the exhibit is already attracting media attention, witness the...
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A monument to Spanish Civil War volunteers from Nottinghamshire, which has been the object of repeated controversy, was rededicated this week in a special ceremony, the Retford Times reports:
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In an interview with El País published on Wednesday, investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzón--suspended while under investigation for allegedly overstepping his judicial boundaries when he initiated an investigation of crimes against humanity committed during the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship--expressed his desire to return to his post at the Audiencia Nacional, the...
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This coming weekend at the Royal Artillery Museum in London: "Britons in the Spanish Civil War," a Living History Event, by La Columna, a UK-based re-enactment group:
Dressed as members of the British Battalion of the International Brigade (IB) and British Aid for Spain campaigners, La Columna’s re-enactors...
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A lot of Spanish Civil War music is available on the web: in addition to a whole series of YouTube clips and the legendary Smithsonian Folkways albums (to be reissued next year), which include online liner notes for volume 1 and volume 2, Geoff Lawes has been working on a
An essay by Liam McNulty in the new Cambridge Undergraduate History Journal, pp. 16-31 (see also the companion blog post):
This week a group of young Spaniards is participating in the seventh annual Summer Camp to Recover the Historical Memory of Extremadura, ABC reports. Organized by the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica de Extremadura (ARMHEX), the camp brings young people between 18 and 30 years of age from Aragón, Murcia,...
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Sam Lesser, of London's East End, left to fight fascism in Spain when he was 18 years old. Now 92, he tells his story to the BBC (10-minute sound clip).
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Daniel Eagan, writing for the Smithsonian, considers the importance of the recently recovered 18-minute film With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain, by Henri Cartier-Bresson (clip here):
With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade is not high art, but it is a passionate film that complements Cartier-Bresson’s other work. It...
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Camp Kinderland was first established 102 years ago by Jewish working-class immigrants who wanted to take their children out of the city’s hot summer streets and, through the camp program and its related Yiddish shul, familiarize them with their progressive Jewish traditions and heritage. Through the years, Camp Kinderland has upheld the principles that...
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Lincoln vet Bill Gresham’s Nightmare Alley cemented his fame as a noir novelist. Yet most of his Spanish Civil War poetry was never published—until now. William Lindsay Gresham (1909-1962), the Lincoln Brigade veteran whose bestselling crime novel Nightmare Alley (1946) inspired two films, was never the same after the Spanish Civil War. He rarely...
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“The past isn’t dead,” William Faulker famously wrote; “it isn’t even past.” The quote came to mind me while attending a remarkable gathering last September in the ancient Spanish town of Azuara, a small community of roughly 500 inhabitants, 40 miles south of Zaragoza (Aragón). Azuara was transformed by the Spanish Civil War. Over...
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The first American to die in the Spanish Civil War was a 47-year-old mining engineer from New York who had married a Spaniard, moved to Madrid in 1933, and covered the 1934 revolution for the US media. As soon as he heard about the 1936 coup, he joined the Republican army. Leo Edwin Fleischman...
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The way we think about George Orwell today was profoundly shaped by the Cold War—and by the groundbreaking work of Peter Stansky, who started writing about him shortly after his death. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in the summer of 1936, Peter Stansky was four years old—and although he lived in Brooklyn,...
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From March 1 to August 3, 2025, The Tampa Bay History Center will host an exhibition titled “Invisible Immigrants: Spaniards in the US, 1868-1945.” Co-curated by Luis Argeo and James D. Fernández, this show uses materials—photographs, documents, letters, keepsakes—digitized or on loan from the family archives of the descendants of those immigrants, as well...
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Teesside, an industrial region in Northeast England that in the nineteenth century grew to be a center of shipbuilding and iron and steel production, spawned no fewer than thirty International Brigade volunteers. Of the nine who were born in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, moreover, six played leading roles in Spain: five rose to the rank of Lieutenant...
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New information about the New Zealand-born Spanish Civil War surgeon Doug Jolly (1904-1983) has emerged following the recent publication of his biography, Frontline Surgeon.
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On September 24, 1945, Dr. Barsky delivered this speech during the Spanish Refugee Appeal rally at Madison Square Garden.
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In 1944, Barsky wrote A Surgeon Goes to War, an 18-chapter memoir of his time in Spain, which was never published but can be consulted at NYU’s Tamiment Library. This is the first chapter.
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ALBA's project to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic
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