Tag Archives: Spanish Civil War

Churchill’s Spaniards: Spanish Republicans who fought in the British Army during the Second World War

July 23, 2025 charlie_nurse

The role of Spanish exiles in the Free French forces and the French Resistance has been well documented, but little attention has been paid to those who served in the British army during the Second World War. This gap has now been filled by Séan F. Scullion, a British army officer brought up in Spain, … Continue reading Churchill’s Spaniards: Spanish Republicans who fought in the British Army during the Second World War →

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Spanish Civil War Museum in Robres

September 5, 2024 charlie_nurse

In recent years there has been a growth of small museums in Spain dedicated to the Civil War. One of the earliest of these is in the Aragonese village of Robres. Charlie Nurse has visited the museum, along with Nick Lloyd, who runs Spanish Civil War tours in Barcelona. Here are some of his impressions … Continue reading Spanish Civil War Museum in Robres →

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Eighty Years of “The Spanish Labyrinth”

December 26, 2023 charlie_nurse

In 1943, four years after the Francoist victory in the Spanish Civil War, a book was published in England on the origins of the conflict. The author Gerald Brenan, (1894-1987) had lived intermittently in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s; the book, The Spanish Labyrinth soon became a classic in the English-speaking world. [You may … Continue reading Eighty Years of “The Spanish Labyrinth” →

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Welcome, Academia

November 24, 2023 Concha Catalán

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 →

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The Stanbrook: The Last Ship Out of Alicante

November 2, 2023 charlie_nurse

We have for the first time included data relating to some of the many people who became exiles as a result of the Civil War and the subsequent repression. Thanks to an agreement with the Fundación Pablo Iglesias, which has in PDF format the passenger list of the British merchant vessel Stanbrook which left Alicante … Continue reading The Stanbrook: The Last Ship Out of Alicante →

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Republican Exile: An Introduction

October 16, 2023 colaboracion

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 →

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Tossa de Mar in Peace and War 1935-1939

July 18, 2023 charlie_nurse

In 1935 a British couple Nancy and Archie Johnstone opened a hotel on the Catalan coast in Tossa de Mar. Unlike most foreign residents, the Johnstones stayed on after the Civil War broke out, finally leaving in early February 1939 as Republican resistance to Franco’s forces collapsed in Catalonia. Nancy recounted her experiences in two … Continue reading Tossa de Mar in Peace and War 1935-1939 →

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International POUM volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

October 3, 2022 charlie_nurse

In a previous article we reviewed The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, Giles Tremlett’s exhaustive and wide-ranging account of the 34,000 foreign volunteers who fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Hot on the heels of Tremlett’s book comes this latest volume, Voluntarios por la Revolución: La Milicia Internacional … Continue reading International POUM volunteers in the Spanish Civil War →

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Memories of Spain in the 1930s

November 25, 2021 charlie_nurse

In a previous article [Memoirs of the War & Post-War by female writers] we discussed the memoirs of Constancia de la Mora, the grand-daughter of Antonio Maura (Spanish PM under Alfonso XIII) who became director of the Foreign Press Office during the Civil War. Her memoirs were first published in English in the United States … Continue reading Memories of Spain in the 1930s →

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Writing the History of the Civil War in 1961

October 7, 2021 charlie_nurse

In 1961, 25 years after the military coup that sparked off the Civil War, two important books on the conflict appeared, one in English (The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas) and the other in French (La Révolution et la Guerre d’Espagne by Pierre Broué and Emile Témime). These were perhaps the first books written … Continue reading Writing the History of the Civil War in 1961 →