Adrian Shubert
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Retired historian (sort of)
I am excited about speaking at this conference sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Madrid next month.
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Atado y Bien Atado EN - Google Drive
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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.
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#Publichistory
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Luisa Martín Rojo | Virtual Spanish Civil War
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Los Libros de la Catarata
6 days ago
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.
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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
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The Ships of Hope (1939-1945) | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/681
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Check out this new map showing the evacuation of Republicans to North Africa in the final days of the Spanish Civil War.
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Republican evacuation to North Africa | Virtual Spanish Civil War
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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
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Visual Arts | Virtual Spanish Civil War
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The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just opened a spectacular gallery devoted to the visual arts:
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Visual Arts | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/821
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Has anyone else noticed a change in the posts to
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This is fascinating, and the first article of this type I've come across:
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#AI
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18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs
Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/27/it-wants-users-hooked-and-jonesing-for-their-next-fix-are-young-people-becoming-too-reliant-on-ai
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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
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#humanrights
#socialjustice
#PublicHistory
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Public History from the Global South: Dialogues Between Latin American and African Public Historians
Thirteen public historians from Africa and Latin America consider the question: What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? The question guided ...
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/iph-2025-2004/html
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Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁
3 months ago
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
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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
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#Mexico
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After independence, Mexico was in search of identity. These paintings offered a blueprint | Aeon Videos
What does it mean to be Mexican? Meet the artist who forged Mexico’s identity in the brushstrokes of his landscape paintings
https://aeon.co/videos/after-independence-mexico-was-in-search-of-identity-these-paintings-offered-a-blueprint
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Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁
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We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking
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We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking
YouTube video by CNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alm-MWziU0o
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Kate Fullagar
3 months ago
Delighted to see this conversation out in J18, reproducing our workshop on
#joshuareynolds
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#mai
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#18thcenturyart
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Reflections on Mai, Joshua Reynolds, and Eighteenth-Century Art — A Roundtable
Roundtable Participants: Kate Fullagar, Miriama Bono, Pauline Reynolds, Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Peter McNeil, Monica Anke Hahn, Carl Vail, Peter Brunt. In March 2023, the longstanding battle for owne...
https://www.journal18.org/nq/reflections-on-mai-joshua-reynolds-and-eighteenth-century-art-a-roundtable/
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Estoy muy contento haber publicado este libro en Los Libros de la Catarata.
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Obligatory reading for chocolate lovers, and highly recommended for global historians.
#chocolate
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#Spain
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How chocolate went from exotic curiosity to worldwide commodity | Aeon Essays
The humble cocoa bean’s journey from its Amerindian origins to worldwide dominance is a lesson in the power of trade
https://aeon.co/essays/how-chocolate-went-from-exotic-curiosity-to-worldwide-commodity?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2816cdda28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-70350641
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Puerto Rico has its own history with the Spanish Civil War. Learn about it here.
#Publichistory
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#scwmuseum
#PuertoRico
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Puerto Rico | Virtual Spanish Civil War
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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:
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#Publichistory
#Spain
#scwmuseum
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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.
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#surrealism
#art
#Indigenous
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So Surreal: Behind the Masks
<em>So Surreal: Behind the Masks</em> unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of th...
https://tiff.net/events/so-surreal-behind-the-masks
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Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española
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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
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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
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Spacing
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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.
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Toronto is eating its hotdog vendors - Spacing Toronto
Toronto is internationally known for having a diverse palate, with culinary offerings ranging from the rigorously traditional to the cross-culturally experimental. Food remains Toronto’s most visible ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2025/06/26/toronto-is-eating-its-hotdog-vendors/
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My colleague Margaret Schotte has just published this fascinating article in Aeon.
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#Pirates
#sailors
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How European sailors learned celestial navigation | Aeon Essays
How did the sailors of early modern Europe learn to traverse the world’s seas? By going to school and doing maths problems
https://aeon.co/essays/how-european-sailors-learned-celestial-navigation?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cbadd6dc83-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-70350641
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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
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#scwmuseum
#Spain
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"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.
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#NationalParkService
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Harriet Tubman’s church in Canada was a crucial force in the abolitionist movement. It’s still standing today
Located in Ontario, the church provided shelter and aid to Black Americans who participated in the Underground Railroad to escape slavery in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/19/harriet-tubman-church-canada-abolition
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“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.
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There are no pure cultures - we have always been global | Aeon Essays
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
https://aeon.co/essays/there-are-no-pure-cultures-we-have-always-been-global?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8d729a59a0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-70350641
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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
#🗃️
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Episode Seven - Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez Interview
YouTube video by Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQNGTfD0tC0
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4 months ago
Writing is thinking.
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Read more about the Battle of Teruel in the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil war:
www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
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#Publichistory
#scwmuseun
#Spain
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‘It’s not a genuine apology’: Spanish women reject Catholic attempt to redress Franco incarceration
Many survivors believe organisation’s request for forgiveness over abuse in Women’s Protection Board centres does not go far enough
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/15/franco-era-incarceration-female-survivors-demand-justice-womens-protection-board?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Charlie Angus
5 months ago
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.
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Nick Lloyd
5 months ago
"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.
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I’m impressed by the profile of the Spanish Civil War in North Queensland.
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A blank space on a wall, like the ones described here, can be eloquent.
#Publichistory
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#scwmuseum
#Spain
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Chamberí District Council | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/270
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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
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#Spain
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‘People were repressed into silence’: the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascism’s horrors
A Madrid exhibition of work by the celebrated comic book artist Paco Roca marks 50 years since the death of Franco
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/paco-roca-comic-artist-madrid-franco-fascism-exhibition?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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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
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#MirandadelEbro
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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
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#scwmuseum
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Francoist Soldiers Reach the Mediterranean | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/77
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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
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#Spain
#scwmuseum
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Jesús Cruz Valenciano | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/787
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Waiting to see the great Rhiannon Giddens at Koerner Hall.
#banjo
#countrymusic
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This is a fascinating look at the divergent histories of underground parking lots in Europe and the Anglosphere.
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#parking
#cars
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What a history of underground parking reveals about postwar policy | Aeon Essays
The explosion of automobiles shaped cities and lives. But an enduring problem remains: where to put them when they’re parked
https://aeon.co/essays/what-a-history-of-underground-parking-reveals-about-postwar-policy?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=837f671691-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-70350641
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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.
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#Spain
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An opera season in Madrid in the midst of the Spanish Civil war?
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#scwmuseum
#opera
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Opera in Madrid, 1937 | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/785
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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.
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#Publichistory
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#Mauthausen
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KL Mauthausen | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/688
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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
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Francoist meat can | Virtual Spanish Civil War
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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
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Whakapapa, whenua and wine | E-Tangata
“Māori exercised greater agency than other Indigenous peoples . . . They acted as independent suppliers of grapes to settler winemakers and even encouraged settlers to take up winemaking in order to e...
https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/whakapapa-whenua-and-wine/
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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
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#Spain
#Tourism
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National Spain Invites You to visit the war routes of the North | Virtual Spanish Civil War
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Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española
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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.
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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.
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In Edinburgh for a conference, I came across this discrete memorial to the local people who fought for the Second Republic.
#Publichistory
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#Spain
#Scotland
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What did the Civil War and the Francoist victory mean for the scientific and cultural life of the country?
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#Publichistory
##Spain
www.vscw.ca/en/node/680
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The Intellectual and Scientific Exile | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/680
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