Dormant English-language blog curating tweets & articles about Spain's disputes over its past, from street names to unmarked graves. Tweets by @tomvvardle
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Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Players, founders, directors and members of Osasuna were murdered and imprisoned during the 1936 coup & Spanish Civil War. Osasuna Memoria have started this campaign for the descendants of those victims to be invited to take the honourary kick-off before a match #OsasunaMemoria
SAQUE DE HONOR, OSASUNA MEMORIA. Verdad, justicia y reparación. Memoria y dignidad de las víctimas. Comparte el vídeo. RT, eskerrik asko. #OsasunaMemoria
🧵 Hilo 1/4
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
'The footballers who fought Franco'
To mark the 90th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War I've written about the Sporting Battalion, made up of amateur and international footballers, who defended Madrid from Franco's advances.
tomvvardle.substack.com/p/th…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
On the 50th anniversary of Franco's death, re-sharing this article @EoghanGilmartin and I wrote about Francoism and justice.
Sadly, Manuel passed away without ever seeing justice for his brother. Fausto, fortunately, was able to recover his father's body. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/08/mis…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
First hunt in Spain for remains of Britons who fought against Franco in civil war. My latest for @Independent on the search for International Brigade fighters. Gracias @IBMT_SCW #SpanishCivilWar independent.co.uk/news/world…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
📢 We are pleased to announce the international conference WEAVING MEMORY: public policies, mass graves and materialities ❗️
✏️ Provisional programme and registration now available ➡️ ja.cat/zANDt
📅 25-28 June 2024
📍Faculty of Geography and History @GH_UB
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
At around 1630 today on 26 April 1937, the Nazi Condor Legion with never admitted support of General Franco began its murderous destruction of the Basque town of Gernika. This is a cutting from The Times of the famous article by George Steer denouncing the atrocity the next day
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
On this day 87 years ago, German and Italian planes bombed the northern Spanish town of Gernika at the behest of General Franco.
This is the story of the Picasso painting it inspired, the town’s football team and the painful process of memory since then.
theathletic.com/5438566/2024…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Right-wing parties 'whitewash' Spain's fascist past with law erasing Franco dictatorship. Castilla y León govt says no consensus on blame for civil war while threatening to impede exhumations and historical investigation on privacy grounds @Emilio_Silva_ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Exciting news, everyone! 📣 I'm thrilled to announce the release of the English version of "La Desbandá 1937," a role-playing game set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. 🎲✨ #LaDesbanda1937 #ttrpg (1/8)
ALT Cover of La Desbandá 1937 ttrpg by Pablo López
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
‘Take flowers to our mass grave’: letters from Spain’s Franco victims collected in new book from @MyLMadrid. The letters are absolutely heartbreaking, but so full of love - as are the families' replies. theguardian.com/world/2023/o…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Could a DNA law help reunite victims of Spain’s ‘stolen babies’ scandal? My latest for @Independent on how a new Spanish film casts light on Spain's stolen babies scandal. #Sobretododenoche #NiñosRobados #Stolenbabies independent.co.uk/news/world…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
'Spanish judge hears allegations of Franco-era police torture in a case rights groups say is a 1st: A Spanish judge has heard evidence of alleged torture during the rule of late dictator Francisco Franco' abcnews.go.com/International…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Hello from the MTC team! We are an @ahrcpress funded project exploring the preservation and transmission of memory between generations, with a specific focus on the memory of Basque children evacuated to the UK during the Spanish Civil War in 1937.
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
🧐Are you interested in Spanish #Memory?
Check out our last Contested History OnSite event about the Valley of the Fallen.
📌The Valley of the Fallen was inaugurated in 1959, and it’s considered by many memory scholars to be Europe’s most controversial monument. ⤵️
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
I couldn't be more delighted for Fausto Canales, 89, who has finally been reunited with his father's body having been killed during the Spanish Civil War. One of the most engaging and fascinating people I interviewed.
Por fin, justicia. Cuánto me alegro.
english.elpais.com/spain/202… – at Hanoi, Vietnam
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
“To me the most important thing is [getting] my great-grandfather back but there is another thing about what it means to live in a democracy. I think Germany has dealt with this but Spain has had no proper closure. - Iris Mir. My latest for @Independent independent.co.uk/news/world…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Thursday 15 June, 6pm: join @MuseumsBirkbeck @BirkBeckArtsRes for 'Making Monuments from Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War', a lecture from Dr Daniel Palacios González, honorary research fellow at @BirkbeckUoL.
All welcome, book your place here: tinyurl.com/4mrs97kn
Booking is now open for our next event!
'Making Monuments from Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War', a lecture from Daniel Palacios González.
Thursday 15 June, 6pm in Keynes Library @birkbeck_arts. All welcome, booking essential!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-mo…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Exhumation of civil war dead from #Spain’s Valley of Cuelgamuros begins theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Spain to begin exhumation of 128 Civil War victims from burial complex - media. My latest for @Reuters on @elpais report. #MemoriaHistoria #ARMH reuters.com/world/europe/spa…
Spain's Memory Wars retweeted
Federico García Lorca #otd 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros. A legendary poet-playwright from the Generation of 27, he was profoundly affected by his experiences in New York City and Cuba in 1929-30. A fervent supporter of Spain's Second Republic he was murdered by the Nationalist forces
