I am excited about speaking at this conference sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Madrid next month. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

What can a bread bag tell us about the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent repression? Find out with this contribution to the Open Gallery. #🗃️ #Publichistory www.vscw.ca/en/node/846

Cuenca, jueves 23 de octubre: presentación de 'Breve historia de España'. Intervendrán María Ángeles Zurilla, Miguel Ángel Valero y Juan Sisinio Pérez Garzón, autor del libro. La cita es a las 19:00 h en la Biblioteca Pública de Cuenca. www.catarata.org/eve...

This map shows the flow of Republican exiles to North Africa in the overall picture of post-Civil War seaborne exile. www.vscw.ca/en/node/681 #🗃️ #Publichistory

Check out this new map showing the evacuation of Republicans to North Africa in the final days of the Spanish Civil War. www.vscw.ca/index.php/en... #🗃️ #Publichistory

The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just opened a spectacular gallery devoted to the visual arts: www.vscw.ca/en/node/821

The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just opened a spectacular gallery devoted to the visual arts: www.vscw.ca/en/node/821

Has anyone else noticed a change in the posts to #Publichistory lately?

This is fascinating, and the first article of this type I've come across: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #AI #Univesrity

What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? available also in Spanish and Portuguese @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #GlobalSouth #colonialism, #humanrights #socialjustice #PublicHistory www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

We're "nasty" because we won't bend the knee or kiss the dictator's ring. We're "nasty" because we don't want booze from a nation that threatens our economy and our sovereignty. We're "nasty" because we won't visit a country where we may be kidnapped, locked up, and tortured. #elbowsup #cdnpoli

This is a fascinating video about a Mexican artist who was world-famous during his lifetime but has been completely forgotten outside his homeland. Fifteen minutes well spent. #Art #🗃️ #Mexico aeon.co/videos/after...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=alm-... We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking

Delighted to see this conversation out in J18, reproducing our workshop on #joshuareynolds, #mai and #18thcenturyart www.journal18.org/nq/reflectio...

Estoy muy contento haber publicado este libro en Los Libros de la Catarata.

Obligatory reading for chocolate lovers, and highly recommended for global historians. #chocolate #🗃️ #Spain aeon.co/essays/how-c...

Puerto Rico has its own history with the Spanish Civil War. Learn about it here. #Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #PuertoRico www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...

What a wonderful object! Vouchers like this were part of the Republican government’s loss of the monopoly on the creation of money. Learn more about this aspect of the Spanish Civil War here: www.vscw.ca/index.php/en... #🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #scwmuseum

I knew about the importance of African art to Picasso and others, but had never heard about the connection between surrealism and Indigenous art. I watched it on CBC Gem, but it may be streaming elsewhere. #🗃️ #surrealism #art #Indigenous tiff.net/events/so-su...

En 1939 el triunfante Nuevo Estado anunciaba el establecimiento de un sistema de racionamiento de alimentos. A pesar de las promesas de Franco la realidad de corrupción ineficacia y simple ausencia de sensibilidad hacia los más pobres significó que se produjo en España en los años cuarenta

On 14 May 1939, the triumphant New State announced the establishment of a food rationing system which would last until 1952. Despite Franco’s promises corruption, inefficiency, and a sheer lack of concern for the poorest led to an unprecedented famine during the 1940s

Why are Toronto's hot dog carts disappearing? And why don't they sell more than just sausages? Craig Meerkamper digs into Toronto's street food restrictions and how they might just be opening up. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

My colleague Margaret Schotte has just published this fascinating article in Aeon. #🗃️ #Pirates #sailors aeon.co/essays/how-e...

Aerial bombing by Italian planes led Barcelona to become a “city of air raid shelters”. More than 1300 appear on the interactive map described here. #Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain www.vscw.ca/en/node/698

"In late 2023, Salem Chapel became the first international listing in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program by the US National Park Service." I wonder what the NPS says today. #Publichistory #🗃️ #NationalParkService www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

“The wars we wage against each other are all civil wars.” A powerful advocacy of globalization - not simply the post-1990 variety- as the core of humanity. aeon.co/essays/there... #🗃️ # globalization

You can enjoy Patricia Schechter's interview with my colleague Antonio Cazorla Sánchez in her fascinating podcast series Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQNG.... It is also available on Spotify and Apple. #Publichistory #scwmuseum #🗃️ #Spain

Writing is thinking.

Read more about the Battle of Teruel in the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil war: www.vscw.ca/index.php/en... #🗃️ #Publichistory #scwmuseun #Spain

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #Spain 🗃️

D-Day Veteran in his 90s wading in the shores of Juno beach with a Canadian flag. Don't mess with us fascists this is ANTIFA - Canada Style.

"Vino de España: Grape juice. The most hygienic and agreeable natural drink" 1935, Josep Renau. A reminder that most if not all of the great poster artists of the Spanish Civil War came partly from a publicity background, whatever their political convictions.

I’m impressed by the profile of the Spanish Civil War in North Queensland.

A blank space on a wall, like the ones described here, can be eloquent. #Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain www.vscw.ca/en/node/786 www.vscw.ca/en/node/270

Anyone who will be in Madrid between now and September should visit this exhibition. Graphic novels, like those of Paco Roca, have been a very important means of communicating experiences of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist regime. #Publichistory #🗃️ #Spain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I came across this memorial plaque in the crypt of St. Peter’s church in Leuven and was surprised to see Miranda among the names of camps. I imagine it is the Francoist concentration camp at Miranda del Ebro. #Publichistory #🗃️ #MirandadelEbro www.vscw.ca/en/node/486

On April 15, 1938, Francoist forces reached the Mediterranean coast, cutting Republican territory in two. It was a blow from which the Repubic never completely recovered. #Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum www.vscw.ca/en/node/77

The latest contribution to the Open Gallery. Why an 18 year old volunteered for the Republican army in 1938 and how he ended up as a fighter pilot. #Publichistory #🗃️ #Spain #scwmuseum www.vscw.ca/en/node/787

Waiting to see the great Rhiannon Giddens at Koerner Hall. #banjo #countrymusic

This is a fascinating look at the divergent histories of underground parking lots in Europe and the Anglosphere. #🗃️ #parking #cars aeon.co/essays/what-...

For those o you who read Spanish, here is a masterful critique of the government's plans to resignify Franco's monstrous monument, the Valley of the Fallen. #Publichistory #🗃️ #Spain

An opera season in Madrid in the midst of the Spanish Civil war? #Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #opera #Spain www.vscw.ca/en/node/785

This 80th anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen is the perfect moment to recall the thousands of Spanish Republicans who were sent there - and died there. #🗃️ #Publichistory #scwmuseum #Mauthausen www.vscw.ca/en/node/688

What does this meat can abandoned in a makeshift Francoist military position during a battle in Guadalajara in April 1938 tell us about the Civil War? #Publichistory #Spain #🗃️ #scwmuseum www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...

In January, I published an article in Global Food History about a Spaniard who was a pioneering wine maker in 19th-century New Zealand. That article is the basis for this piece on Māori involvement in wine making then and now. #wine #NewZealand #🗃️ e-tangata.co.nz/history/whak...

A year before the Civil War was over, the Francoists were sought to display their military dominance and legitimate their regime by offering foreigners guided tours of former battle sites located in regions they had recently occupied. #Publichistory #🗃️ #Spain #Tourism www.vscw.ca/en/node/273

Esta canción, de los Tenementals, está escrita desde la perspectiva de la estatua de Dolores Ibárruri (La Pasionaria), que conmemora a los hombres de Glasgow que murieron luchando con las Brigadas Internacionales durante la Guerra Civil Española.

This song, by the Tenementals, is written from the perspective of the statue of Dolores Ibárruri (La Pasionaria), which commemorates the men from Glasgow who died fighting with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.

In Edinburgh for a conference, I came across this discrete memorial to the local people who fought for the Second Republic. #Publichistory #🗃️ #Spain #Scotland

What did the Civil War and the Francoist victory mean for the scientific and cultural life of the country? #🗃️ #Publichistory ##Spain www.vscw.ca/en/node/680