Thanks to an agreement with the Cádiz provincial council’s Historical and Democratic Memory Department, which is run by vice-president Javier Vidal, hundreds of books relating to Historical Memory which had been in storage are now at the Casa de la Memoria and have been sorted and classified by our librarian,Seguir leyendo…
Fran Martín, a historian and close friend of the Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda, has kindly donated a copy of his latest book Memorias de un brigadista español: el sargento López Arrieta en la guerra de España (1936-1939) to our library. In 2019, the author published a book aboutSeguir 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…
On Sunday 20 June there was a presentation at the Casa de la Cultura in Jimena de la Frontera, of a book called ‘Testimonios’ which contains the transcripts of interviews given to the Foro por la Memoria del Campo de Gibraltar by local people who are hoping to recover theSeguir leyendo…
A new book which is the result of over 20 years of research has just been published, and it is a biographical dictionary of 1,000 volunteers from Argentina in the Spanish Civil war. It has been written by historian Jerónimo Boragina, who is himself Argentinian, and is called Diccionario BiográficoSeguir leyendo…