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Four historians at the Casa de la Memoria are currently working on a research project into the purging of teachers in the Campo de Gibraltar area during the Franco dictatorship. Among the sources being used by Fernando Sígler Silvera, Margarita García Díaz, Antonio Morales Benítez and Elena Trujillo Petisme areSeguir leyendo…
The Juan Armario infant and junior school in Alcalá de los Gazules is to be renamed the Al-Kalat school, following a decision by the school board earlier this month. Juan Armario was the founder of the local Falange and a supporter of the Franco-led uprising in 1936. He is saidSeguir leyendo…
Some good news has just been announced for the Historical Memory movement in Cádiz province: the Diputación de Cádiz has upped its budget for projects in this field in 2024 to a total of 400,000 euros. The decision was announced by Javier Vidal, deputy vice-president of the organisation, at aSeguir leyendo…
A group of secondary school students from the Levante school in Algeciras and the Lycée Amiot in Auxerre, France, had a guided tour of the Casa de la Memoria last week, accompanied by four teachers. The French students are studying for the ‘Bachibac’ in Spanish and French, which includes lessonsSeguir leyendo…
A date for the diary: On Friday 23 February at 7pm there will be a talk on ‘Blas Infante y el despertar de Andalucía en la prensa republicana’ by Eva Castaño García. She will explain “how to understand Blas Infante’s vision of Andalucía through his voice in the press ofSeguir leyendo…
The Casa de la Memoria Association and the Forum for the Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar will be screening the acclaimed documentary Pico Reja: lo que la verdad esconde on Friday 26 January at the Millán Picazo Auditorium in Algeciras, at 7pm. The film is in Spanish with EnglishSeguir leyendo…
The deputy vice-president of the Cádiz provincial authority (Diputación de Cádiz), Javier Vidal, visited the Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda on Monday 20 November, and was welcomed by members of the board of the Casa de la Memoria Association and the Forum for the Memory of the Campo deSeguir leyendo…
A conference on the works carried out by the republican prisoners who Franco used as slave labour when the Civil War ended is to take place at the Palacio de Congresos in La Línea de la Concepción on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November. About 30,000 prisoners from other partsSeguir leyendo…
Historian and author Fernando Sígler Silvera will be presenting his latest book, ‘El Frente Popular. Ubrique, febrero-julio 1936’, on Thursday 14 December. The event will take place at 7pm at the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios secondary school in Ubrique. The book is part of the History of Ubrique collectionSeguir leyendo…
The book ‘La Remonarquía Española’ by journalist and author Jesús Ynfante, which has been published posthumously by the Casa de la Memoria Association and the Forum for the Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar, is to be presented in Barcelona and Madrid next week, on 13 and 15 November respectively.Seguir leyendo…
The Casa de la Memoria is now displaying a Palestinian keffiyeh on the front balcony, in a show of solidarity with the people of Palestine in the face of the attacks they have been suffering since October. The keffiyeh can be seen along with the Republican flag which always fliesSeguir leyendo…