A nice present from a couple from Virginia on the tour yesterday

Memorial to the Jewish volunteers of the International Brigades. It plays with Star of David and the 3-point of the IB. Around 20% (about 7,000) of Brigaders were Jewish. Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona, Montjüic cemetery

Trafalgar Square, London, 1938. Banner reads "Irish Republicans greet Spanish Republicans. Smash all imperialisms" I don't know the date or the source.

'The claw of the Italian invader wants to enslave us!' 1937 Spanish Republican poster depicting Mussolini's involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Designed by Amado Oliver for the Junta de la Defensa de Madrid.

A group of militia fighters defending Donosti (San Sebastian) from Francoist forces. The Basque town fell on 13 September 1936.

This lovely milk label (1936-38) produced by the collectivised dairy industry of the CNT. Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War.

1939 Italian magazine La Domenica Del Corriere. Francoists burning Communist records in front of Hotel Colon after Barcelona's fall. It's fictitious. Books were burnt but leftist material was collected + used obsessively in the "Causa General": legal prosecution against those who lost the Civil War

A pair of wolves breed in Catalonia (Alt Empordà) for the first time since the late 1920s! Three wolf cubs, llobetons in Catalan, lobeznos in Spanish, for the first time in a hundred years. I hope you prosper. www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/...

Mariposa in Spanish, Papallona in Catalan, Bolboreta in Galician, Tximeleta, sounding flitty in Basque, among many other terms in Euskara. All beautiful words, for me Spanish narrowly wins it. Image of swallowtail from Wikipedia.

Some beautiful interchange between #RoyalMail and #AnPost to land this beauty in my hallway Cannot wait for evening to get stuck in @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social Salut!

Great poster. "The art of Spain is an objective of the fascist aviation". From the remarkable archive of @craiubpavello.bsky.social in Barcelona t.co/7ei2oNPx5a

I'll be doing a presentation of my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" at the English bookshop Backstory (C/ Mallorca) at 6pm on 9 December. Many thanks! www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail...

Language map of Peninsula Spain and the Balearics. Plenty to argue with I'm sure at a local level as always with these things, but I think it's a great overview. Anyone know the source?

Memorial to the 72 known Australian men and women who came to fight against fascism in Spain, 15 of whom died. Victorian Trades Hall Council, Melbourne. Via IB group on FB.

Famous image of anarchist anti-Francoist guerilla Quico Sabaté firing a mortar loaded with propaganda leaflets over Barcelona in 1955.

I’ve got mine lined up and ready.

Modernista entrance to the cafe bar La Font del Gat, Montjuïc, Barcelona.

Cotton harvest, 1963, Jerez de la Frontera by Ramón Masats. The social order of the south of Spain under Franco with "el señorito" still there,  though on the verge of change as huge numbers migrated to cities and across the Pyrenees.

So pleased to get my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War". @HurstPublishers publishers have done a wonderful job in producing it. Advanced copies available thru www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc

On the tour today, two young native speakers of Breton, the first time I think I've heard the language face to face. I'm sure there were Breton brigaders, but the only direct link to the SpanishCivilWar thst came to me is Lluís Companys' exile in Brittany village of La Baule before arrest by Gestapo

Grave of Ed Balchowsky (1916-1989) "Artist, poet, raconteur, one-armed piantist, Spanish Civil War volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Your friends, family and fellow premature antifascists salute you!" Sent to me by Solomon from his daily run thru Forest Park, Illinois

@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social Your book is out in the wild. Can't wait to read it! Congratulations 👏🏻

Just delivered five minutes ago and I can't wait to get stuck in. Always fascinating to get both an alternative view and no doubt some new stories I've not heard before too. Congratulations to author Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

First leucistic (not albino) Iberian lynx ever recorded. 📸 this week by Ángel Hidalgo Garrido.

Yesterday on 28 October 1938, some 200-300,000 people lined the Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona to say farewell to the International Brigades. Some 35,000 fought against fascism in Spain. 9,000 never returned home. You won't be forgotten.

"Helpt de kinderen van Spanje" (Help the children in Spain), Brussels, 1938. Via: ontinyent3139.es/es/seminario...

I happened upon this to Sam Wild, last commander of British Batallion, on a council house in 1987 on a rainy evening in Longsight, Manchester when I hardly, hardly knew of International Brigades or the war in Spain. Image via Mike Wild

Delighted with this: ‘For anyone who cares about the Spanish Civil War, this book is a literary— +visual—treat. And for anyone who wants to see how history can be brought alive by going to the places where it happened, it’s a superb model’ Adam Hochschild www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels...

Original cover of S. L. Shneiderman's 1938 book, "Krig in shpanyen: hinterland" a collection of his articles on the war. Using photo by fellow Polish Jew David Seymour, the author's brother-in-law. Recently translated from Yiddish as "Journey Through the Spanish Civil War".

‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

First issue of Nova Ibèria, journal published in Cat, So, Fr and Eng in 1937 by Catalan government's propaganda department. Aimed at raising awareness among local pop and internationally of Republican Catalonia's war effort, arts, refugees, etc.

Aid to Spain London Ambulances October 1937 @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

"Lo Parot" Horta de Sant Joan, Southern Catalonia, a strong candidate for the oldest olive in Iberia. 1000-1500 years old. I once sat in its shade and imagined salads of Al-Andalus dressed in its young oils.

A postbox I came across in La Cerdanya in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spanish Republican colours.

Distribution of olive trees in the Mediterranean.

Figures showing appalling lack of public primary schooling pre 1931 in Barcelona and Catalonia + huge increase between 1931 and 1937, especially after 1936 revolution -some in 1936 taking over catholic schools but above creating new places Published by CENU, 1937

"The Canal of Mancorbo in the Picos de Europa" (1876) by Belgian-Spanish painter Carlos de Haes. El Prado. It brings back to me how breathtakingly beautiful these mountains between Cantabria and Asturias can be.

While the UK's Dig for Victory campaign to promote urban food produce in WW2 is part of national story, here in Catalonia the remarkable work by Barcelona's anarchist city farming collectives during the Civil War was forgotten, but has come to light thanks to research by MartaCamps+SantiagoGorostiza

Catalan boxer Francesc Ros i Murtra, 1927 middleweight champion of Spain, on the Aragón front in 1936, encouraging his fellow militia fighters, I think ERC. Original b/w photo by Agustí Centelles. One of a series of gifted prewar Catalan boxers. Via the excellent @CatalunyaColor on twitter

I finally got round to buying @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social’s book Will devour ahead of my trip to Barcelona in the new year…

I'll be doing a couple of virtual Zoom presentations in December for my new book Travels through the Spanish Civil War, out with @HurstPublishers on 20 November. Let me know if you're interested. Pre-orders, reviews, etc here (or your local bookshop). www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels...

Art of ages. Swirly-wirly Klinty-Pollocky colours in the geological map of the Iberian Peninsula all the way back to the ancient granites of Galicia.

"We were once refugees" (Nosaltres vam ser refugiats).  Bookmarks produced by the Catalan government (2015) with images of refugees from Syria and Iraq together with Republican refugees and soldiers crossing the border into French exile in 1939.

Poster for the 18th edition of the "Volta a Catalunya" held from 13-21 June 1936, one month before the start of the Spanish Civil War. The race was won by Mariano Cañardo. Cylcling was at the time among the most popular spectator sports in Catalonia after football and boxing.

Information kiosk of the CNT / FAI on la Rambla de Canaletes (top part) , 1937. 📷 Carlos Pérez de Rozas

Storks nesting on Colegiata de San Miguel church, Alfaro, La Rioja. The church is home to +100 pairs, making it the largest colony of white storks on single building anywhere in world. I visited when fledglings were about. ~400 storks around single building. 📸 Zarateman, wiki

Turruncún, La Rioja. One of more than 3,000 of abandoned villages in Spain. Thousands more waiting in line with just a few old folk left. 📷 Miguel Ángel García. Wiki

Sales de tu país porque te amenazan de muerte y tu propio gobierno te trata como a un criminal. Le pasó a @mark-bray.bsky.social la semana pasada. "A las agencias federales de Estados Unidos cada vez les preocupa menos aparecer como árbitros neutrales de la ley." @ctxt.es ctxt.es/es/20251001/...

The River Ebro, winding like a green serpent across the arid Monegros of Aragón.

Re-imagining Picasso's Guernica. Zumaia, 60km west of Gernika.