On Tuesday 21 November 2023 I was a speaker at the conference Towards a Spanish Civil War and Francoist Repression Digital Research Infrastructure, organised by the Centre for Studies on Dictatorships and Democracies (CEDID), a study and research centre of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), made up of more than a hundred researchers from … Continue reading Welcome, Academia
Seven years after the founding of ihr.world in 2016, our database has grown to include more than 1.4 million records of victims from the Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship. Now, after several months work, we are starting to add data on exiled Republicans. This article is intended to provide some necessary context: it is … Continue reading Republican Exile: An Introduction
Between 1936 and 1947 almost half a million people were detained in 188 Francoist concentration camps, the last of which, at Miranda de Ebro, finally closed in 1947 (Javier Rodrigo, Cautivos, 2005, p. 308). One of the most important camps occupied parts of the ancient monastery at San Pedro de Cardeña, about 10 km south … Continue reading The San Pedro de Cardeña concentration camp
Sixty years ago, in April-May 1962, a strike in the coalfields of Asturias which spread to other sectors of the Spanish economy presented the biggest challenge to the Franco Dictatorship since the end of the Civil War. Often known as La Huelga del Silencio due to its peaceful and non-violent character, the strike led to … Continue reading Hay una luz en Asturias: The Asturian Miners Strike of 1962
Text: Concha Catalán / Laura Cuesta. Data and maps: Alejandro Zappala. With the assistance of Martin Virtel and Marta Martínez. The year 1958 witnessed the beginning of a macabre exercise as lorries transported the remains of people killed during the Civil War along the roads of Spain. The objective was to use them to fill … Continue reading The Bodies in the Valle de los Caídos: An Analysis of their Origins By Municipality
Today, 15 June, is the anniversary of the 1977 general election, the first elections held in Spain after the death of General Franco and an important landmark in the Transition which followed the Dictatorship. To mark this date IHR is publishing this review of a new book by Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies at … Continue reading The Weight of the Absent Past
We are always looking for different ways of communicating information about the victims of the Spanish Civil War and the postwar repression under the Franco Dictatorship. Today we present a geographical search engine which incorporates diverse sets of data. This new resource was announced last month at a round table event on open data and … Continue reading New Search Engine Using Place of Birth
If you read this article and find it useful please consider making a donation to enable us to continue our work by following this link Thank you! In a blogpost in 2019 we reviewed Tomasa Cuevas’s book Carcel de Mujeres 1939-1945. We mentioned that her book had been published in English in 1998 under the title Prison … Continue reading “Prison of Women” by Tomasa Cuevas
On 24 January 1977 three extreme-right terrorists stormed into the offices of labour lawyers working for the trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) in the Calle Atocha in Madrid. They opened fire murdering three of the lawyers, Enrique Valdelvira Ibáñez, Luis Javier Benavides Orgaz and Francisco Javier Sauquillo. They also killed a law student, Serafín Holgado, … Continue reading The Atocha Massacre: 44 Years After
If you read this article and find it useful please consider making a donation to enable us to continue our work by following this link Thank you! To mark the fourth anniversary of the establishment of Innovation and Human Rights we have added a total of 562,298 personal files from the Ministerio de Educación to … Continue reading Data from the Ministry of Education – our database now has over one million case files
