Knowledge Commons | Spanish Civil War Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Spanish Civil War Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:12:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4c27dc39bf8b0739615cf04e266b7244 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Books on the Spanish Civil War in the forum Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/books-on-the-spanish-civil-war/#post-92564 Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:24:43 -0400 "La Masonería en Cataluña", de César Alcalá https://youtu.be/VGPsGJSXIUo

]]> ebc8476e0222f4dba994ddf48185b3b3 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Protagonists of the Civil War in the forum Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/protagonists-of-the-civil-war/ Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:47:58 -0400 Detención y muerte de García Abadell: https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2025/06/detencion-y-muerte-de-garcia-atadell.html

]]> a22932cdae757c935b679c3335a5acac José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Franco and the Franco régime in the forum Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/franco-and-the-franco-regime/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:29:11 -0400 Bueno Sánchez, Gustavo. "Franco, Franco, Franco en 2025." Lecture at the Fundación Gustavo Bueno.  Video. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 14 April 2025.*

https://youtu.be/Gm1tx475T8U

2025

]]> 128060b13780002b7ef37abfb118eaac José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Books on the Spanish Civil War in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/books-on-the-spanish-civil-war/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 08:32:24 -0400 "El fraile y los fusilados." https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/elfraileylosfusilados.pdf

]]> 802328fca24b4fe188134f812fe18209 Luis de Orueta deposited CAPRICHO DE LO TRIVIAL in the group Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837331/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 02:25:02 -0400 El autor comienza diciendo que antes de nacer vivía con sus padres (claro) y termina su relato 86 años después con una despedida evanescente. En el intervalo: una vida sin huella. ¿Entonces por qué contarla? A falta de mejor respuesta, aduce voces misteriosas en la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe:
“Redimimos a quien se esfuerza en vano”…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ca4e48d48a45f23650aea4dc2fb03e6 Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833563/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:27:09 -0500 Salaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]

]]> 0 bedc9287eb3ffe7d0d87d9126fb10c6b Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited La Transición Española. Las fuerzas que cambian la Historia son las mismas que cambian el corazón del hombre in the group Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1751605/ Sat, 11 Sep 2021 02:25:33 -0400 Españoles, Franco ha muerto. Con estas palabras se abría paso a uno de los momentos más afortunados de la Historia de España: la Transición a la democracia. Aunque el proceso de democratización española tuviera sus deficiencias y carencias, que hoy se hacen evidentes en la situación de crisis actual; podemos seguir mirando esa Transición como un…[Read more]

]]> 0 d22cb2305fd5f2b8dcbf31f6bc562361 Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom in the group Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744957/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:25:45 -0400 Libertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation
of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female
body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and
female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender,
the films question and ultimately…[Read more]

]]> 0 723e32fb9b7270ea8fbd50c2f9e2c57b Anne Donlon deposited Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse in the group Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666202/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:32:16 -0400 Introduction to four poems written by Langston Hughes during the Spanish Civil War, published in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA.

The introduction alongside the text of the four poems can be found on the PMLA's site: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.562.

]]> 0 c95454c17014ad13602a8c1927a6d67b Anne Donlon replied to the topic What we're reading and writing lately in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/what-were-reading-and-writing-lately/#post-25858 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:49:43 -0400 Thanks for your kind words about the PMLA piece, Kathryn! Congrats on your fellowship--the description on the faculty fellows page is very intriguing. I'd love to hear more about your project, so please do get in touch!

Apologies for the late reply--somehow I missed the notification for it.  And, yes, I'd love to hear what others have been…[Read more]

]]> 5b415f14767d24f346c4f7c61830ec9b Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic What we're reading and writing lately in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/what-were-reading-and-writing-lately/#post-24595 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:07:25 -0400 Hi Anne!

Thanks for posting- your piece in the PMLA is wonderful, congrats!

I received a Syracuse University Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship for Spring 2020 to conduct research at the ALBA archives and SU special collections on Salaria Kea- I'm very excited and will certainly be in touch to pick your brain...ok?  I would love to hear what…[Read more]

]]> dd035e42be0a59bc7e2499534a83e52d Anne Donlon started the topic What we're reading and writing lately in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/what-were-reading-and-writing-lately/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:50:17 -0400 Hello all! I've been remiss in my role as group admin here. What is new? Has anyone published anything SCW-related in the past year or so? Is anyone reading anything interesting?

(I was prompted by this HC Summer Refresh Workshop to post. If anyone would like to join me as a group admin, let me know! I'd love to see more discussion here.)…[Read more]

]]> d77ff5bc06ac2729365bba40f9c308e7 Mariana Ou replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/suitcase-of-scw-photos-in-the-news/#post-14848 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 23:42:34 -0400 Amazing! Didn't hear about it. On the El País article, the photo of a doctor treating a man: I'm pretty sure that's Dr. Reginald Saxton, who developed a mobile infrastructure for blood transfusion in the SCW. We have his papers in the Marx Memorial Library, including a diary he kept--more like a block for note taking, with many illegible bits but…[Read more]

]]> 0a197cf440a7b944e5750de26e83a0fe Mariana Ou replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-14847 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 23:31:27 -0400 Hello! I'm Mariana, based in London, and since last October I've been working at the Marx Memorial Library, cataloguing the Spanish Collection: a major archive that includes the whole archive from the International Brigade Association/International Brigade Memorial Trust. I've been dealing mostly with the collection of 500+ pamphlets: aprox. half…[Read more]

]]> 6c6177588555d17a9074a6d7b3ebd05e Mariana Ou replied to the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/scw-catalan-referendum-in-the-news/#post-14846 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 23:15:14 -0400 Hello Anne, I've just joined the group so the reply comes very late. I have read The Winterlings and loved it. It's really my type of fiction. Have you read it in the end?

That said, I wonder why the author decided to suggest that Spanish/Basque children may have suffered or been exploited in their time as refugees in the UK? In the Marx Memorial…[Read more]

]]> 862e2f825853d99086f58d3c6866eab1 Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/collections-of-scw-materials-images/#post-14844 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 22:54:23 -0400 Also here in the UK, the University of Warwick has an archive on the Spanish Civil War from papers of the Trades Union Congress. They are all digitised which is quite amazing. My favourite items are in Spanish Situation: Pamphlets, leaflets etc.

Attached is cover of pamphlet by the Labour Party, one that we also hold at the MML. I find it…[Read more]

]]> 752e29114afae6d8e9ad56736e823272 Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/collections-of-scw-materials-images/#post-14843 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 22:36:03 -0400 I'm working at the Marx Memorial Library in London. The library is home to the Spanish Collection, which is an archive of more than 7000 items, initially gathered by British International Brigaders and their families. We have just completed cataloguing the collection thanks to a grant from the National Archives (link below). Only very few items…[Read more]

]]> 30a90a3ebf182779c0128a98224771a1 Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-13078 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:57:19 -0400 I noticed we have some new members. Welcome! Please feel free to introduce yourselves. I'd love to hear what people are working on.

]]> 5a168fcbe5715f912d01c4f76a226399 Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-11383 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:33:51 -0500 Congratulations! That's fantastic news.

]]> f5faff0d54ae8e4ec630650860b4dd56 Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-11304 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:59:43 -0500 I am happy to announce that my book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War is now available in paperback.

]]> 250086bc59446f6e276a06cb52d61840 Anne Donlon started the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/scw-catalan-referendum-in-the-news/ Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:30:51 -0400 I'm interested to hear what people have been reading lately. Today I'm reading Bécquer Seguín's Spanish Civil Wars in Public Books: 

To see Iberia instead of Spain, then, is to take the long view of history. To write an Iberian Civil War novel is to spend less time on the exceptionalness of the war itself than on how that moment places the lo…

[Read more]

]]> f32c99803375c37fb01673c30c5a4347 Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-7077 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:03:39 -0400 Hi Anne- I'm still gathering information and reading about Kea. Nothing in the works yet. I look forward to seeing the anthology on Black Women's Internationalism! sounds great.

]]> 8a46f370e6d9c4418783a2163da9abf5 Anne Donlon posted an update in the group Spanish Civil War Studies: I recently listened to the International Communism and the […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1576297/ Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:19:40 -0400 I recently listened to the International Communism and the Spanish Civil War episode of @sguillory's Sean's Russia Blog Podcast, featuring @lkirschenb! It was excellent--I highly recommend it: http://seansrussiablog.org/2017/07/07/international-communism-and-the-spanish-civil-war/

]]> 1 77fa61d79c367dd6fb860cb3276a56d8 Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-7010 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:53:47 -0400 Oh, that's so great to hear! Are you writing about Kea? I'm finalizing a chapter for an anthology on Black Women's Internationalism about black women's life writing and the Spanish Civil War that discusses the ambulance fundraising tour around the south & midwest of the US that Kea & Thyra Edwards undertook in 1938 (and Edwards's scrapbook…[Read more]

]]> 35fb9a0e38a34872aaf3d71dc80024dd Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-6954 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:44:40 -0400 Anne- I have your article from the Mass. Review on Cunard in my file on Salaria Kea- I'll definitely look for your book. African American women in the SPW is such a rich and understudied area. So glad to make this connection with you!

 

]]> e628e5a194efe56571edbcee71a4c71e Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-6942 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:30:11 -0400 So glad that you all are here! My own work has circled around African Americans and the Spanish Civil War. I edited a chapbook of correspondence and poems: Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard & Louise Thompson: Poetry, Politics & Friendship in the Spanish Civil War. I've also written about Cunard's SCW scrapbook, and have some writing in the works a…[Read more]

]]> f01ac4664232a72e3c89667309541909 Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/collections-of-scw-materials-images/#post-6939 Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:28:25 -0400 Gerda Taro's photographs of the SPW at the International Center for Photography.

https://www.icp.org/search-results/Gerda%20Taro/all/all/relevant/0

Also, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade archives at NYU are fantastic for US participation in the war.

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/alba_guides.html

]]> ccb5c09f617f85e29b94a1cdcee794d9 Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-6938 Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:24:17 -0400 Hello all! My interests are women in photography, literature and film dealing with the SPW from historical as well as contemporary perspectives.

We are very much looking forward to Lisa Kirschenbaum's visit to Syracuse U. this fall! Great to see you in this group. And thanks for starting up this conversation, Anne.

]]> 10327d5131e0aff69e5699e8a3479bbd John Levin replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/collections-of-scw-materials-images/#post-6918 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:51:08 -0400 A couple of open data sets relating to Francoist represion:

Graves of victims of Francoism:

http://vidascontadas.org/ with data at: https://github.com/VidasContadas/datasets
<div id="gt-res-content">
<div id="gt-res-dir-ctr" class="trans-verified-button-small" dir="ltr">
<div id="tts_button"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span…[Read more]

]]> 28036a07df1fa6289253b4ba8a7fb53c John Levin replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-6917 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:19:34 -0400 Although I'm doing a PhD at Sussex University on debtors' sanctuaries in c18th London, I have a strong interest in Spain & Spanish history, which I'd like to develop more seriously.

Especially interested in digitial history, and using computational techniques on historical data.

]]> af9f0d493519d64e1d0c6dbb4112db8d Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/collections-of-scw-materials-images/#post-6907 Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:08:32 -0400 The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) has digitized much of the Comintern's materials on the International Brigades (fond 545). The site is most easily navigated if you can read Russian, but there is some English translation, and the archives are in many languages.

http://interbrigades.inforost.org/

]]> 5f0e289c19c1c7b0cf6ebc3e49748cb6 Lisa Kirschenbaum posted an update in the group Spanish Civil War Studies: Thanks, Anne, for putting this group together. My book […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575755/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:03:27 -0400 Thanks, Anne, for putting this group together. My book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War was published by Cambridge in 2015. It explores the personal and political lives of international communists, centering on the SCW as a key moment in the history of communism and communist life histories.

]]> 0 71815e7ec68df373d827a2beb488bff2 Anna Girling posted an update in the group Spanish Civil War Studies: Hi all - and many thanks Anne for setting up this group and […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575738/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:40:29 -0400 Hi all - and many thanks Anne for setting up this group and inviting me to join. I'm very glad to be here! My interest in the Spanish Civil War began with my grandparents - who both went there as volunteers from the UK. I started a blog last year (http://redthirties.wordpress.com/) with the aim of looking at some of the archival materials that I…[Read more]

]]> 0 a34c54265494e20b44309e7eff4d4bb4 Anne Donlon replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/suitcase-of-scw-photos-in-the-news/#post-6890 Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:04:33 -0400 This article doesn't require a login: "La Guerra Civil, vista por un cuáquero inglés"

]]> c97b896a1199b0a3e2a2a372b9daaf1e Anne Donlon replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/collections-of-scw-materials-images/#post-6889 Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:03:30 -0400 A start:

"The digital Archive of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship is an initiative of UCSD in collaboration with several Spanish civic associations, such as the ARMH (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica), the Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos, the Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria…[Read more]

]]> 9b01c0bf6e0a22dbdcfd25da50f307b1 Laura Hartmann-Villalta replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/#post-6883 Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:05:22 -0400 Hello! I work on SCW visual culture and women's writing. I am a happy panel contributor and collaborator.

]]> c0f6a6282399939b61f3fbcc41bfed53 Anne Donlon started the topic Introductions in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/introductions/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:16:31 -0400 Please introduce yourself! Share your interests and previous / current / future work related to the Spanish Civil War, as well as any other info you'd like to put out there.

]]> 5d17f1e10292043ed6536085b12dd09d Anne Donlon started the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/collections-of-scw-materials-images/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:57:18 -0400 Do you have any favorite (digital) collections of SCW-related materials?

Searching for public domain images for the header & group avatar, I was trying to think of good places to search. The V&A had a number of posters, but weren't easy to download for image use. (Suggestions about our cover/group image, send them my way.)

Do you know of online…[Read more]

]]> 5a1de61171cffc4b1cd6491bbc31989a Anne Donlon started the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/spanish-civil-war-studies/forum/topic/suitcase-of-scw-photos-in-the-news/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:41:00 -0400 Another suitcase of SCW photographs emerges: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lost-photographs-of-the-spanish-civil-war-found-in-a-suitcase-9c25d3pzv

]]> 199b8470e556e521e73766de04968fa2 Anne Donlon created the group Spanish Civil War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575700/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:22:51 -0400 0