The Forum for the Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar has recently elected its new management board and agreed its plans for the near future. Francisco Hidalgo, a history teacher at the Sierra Luna school in Los Barrios, was unanimously elected the new president of the Forum, replacing Andrés Rebolledo,Seguir leyendo…
On Saturday 26 March the first meeting of the Network of Teachers for Historical Memory took place at the Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda in Jimena de la Frontera. The teachers had come from different places in Andalucía and their aim is for historical and democratic memory to beSeguir leyendo…
In today’s edition we have news of a route to commemorate victims of Franco in Espera, another mass grave being found in Trebujena, the PSOE accuses right-wing and far right parties of attacking historical memory and there’s a brand new book in English which will delight those with an interestSeguir leyendo…
The PSOE socialist party in Málaga has criticised the “right and far right” for retaining symbols which it says are an attack on historical memory. Speaking during the event organized at the Peñón del Cuervo to commemorate La Desbandá 85 years ago, the party’s general secretary, Daniel Pérez, said itSeguir leyendo…
Trebujena council has announced that another mass grave containing six bodies has been found during the exhumation works that are being carried out in the cemetery. The announcement was made by the Historical Memory councillor, Ana Luisa Robredo, to coincide with the visit by the provincial government’s head of HistoricalSeguir leyendo…
This week the mayor of Espera, Pedro Romero, and the councillor for Democratic Memory, José María Sánchez, presented a project called ‘Adoquines de la Memoria’ to the provincial government’s head of Democratic Development, Lucía Trujillo. The initiative is to pay tribute to the 69 people who were killed by theSeguir leyendo…
This week marks the anniversary of La Desbandá, the time in February 1937 when thousands of people from all over Andalucía tried to walk from Málaga to Almería, hoping to get away from Franco’s forces and the threats made by Queipo de Llano against the innocent population. Between 100,000 andSeguir leyendo…
On Friday 4 February, the Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda was visited by Nieves Concostrina, an award-winning writer and journalist who specializes in history and memorialist issues and has a regular programme on Cadena Ser, and her husband Jesús Pozo, who is also a journalist. They had been inSeguir leyendo…
The Forum for Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar and Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda held the book launch for ‘Red Ship and Red Tape – the José Luis Díez and Gibraltar’, at the John Mackintosh Hall in Gibraltar on Friday 17 December. The book, which has been publishedSeguir leyendo…
“I want to thank you for inviting me to be here with you,” said Estanislao Naranjo Infante on Friday evening at the Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda in Jimena de la Frontera, at the event to remember the 60,000 victims of Francoism in Andalucía. It was organised by theSeguir leyendo…
The coalition government of PSOE and Unidas Podemos are hoping it will be possible for crimes committed during the Franco regime to be punished under the new Democratic Memory Law in future. They have just filed a last-minute amendment to this effect in the draft law, but have stopped shortSeguir leyendo…