Adrian Shubert
@adrian53.bsky.social
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Retired historian (sort of)
The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just opened an exciting new gallery devoted to film. Check it out.
#Publichistory
#🗃️
#Spain
#scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/849
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Film and the Civil War | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/849
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What was the impact of the Spanish Civil War for Greece? And what were its echoes during Greece's own civil war?
#Publichistory
#🗃️
#scwmuseum
#Spain
www.vscw.ca/en/node/857
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Greece | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/857
about 1 month ago
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A fascinating conversation about the impact of AI on journalism between the editors of two Canadian magazines: The Local and The Walrus.
thelocal.to/fallout-from...
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The Fallout From Our AI Freelancer Investigation | The Local
A conversation about the future of journalism in a world of “Victoria Goldiees.”
https://thelocal.to/fallout-from-ai-freelancer-investigation/
about 2 months ago
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My interview this morning on the popular Spanish radio program, “A vivir que son dos días”.
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#Scwmuseum
cadenaser.com/audio/176380...
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El único museo de la Guerra Civil española es virtual y nació en Canadá
<p>Repasamos la actualidad de la semana con Hans-Günter Kellner, Sarah Morris, Íñigo Domínguez y Mathieu de Taillac, que pasa por la condena de Fiscal General del Estado y el 50 aniversario de la muer...
https://cadenaser.com/audio/1763803139827/
2 months ago
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As the 50th anniversary of the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco approaches, let's relive one of the greatest moments in the long history of Saturday Night Live. (With Spanish subtitles)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=axBy...
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El Generalisimo Francisco Franco Todavía esta Muerto
YouTube video by Reuben Moss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axByUFSa7N8
2 months ago
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The book I wrote with Boyd Cothran, The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Conncted the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914, is now out in Russian!
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#Publichistory
azbooka.ru/books/morepl...
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Купить книгу «Мореплавания, изменившие мир: История кругосветного парусника по имени «Эдвин Фокс»», Бойд Котран Адриан Шуберт | Издательство «КоЛибри», ISBN: 978-5-389-26521-9
XIX век — время расширения империй, кровавой освободительной борьбы в колониях, глобализации и стремительного роста международной торговли. Что общего у столь масштабных...
https://azbooka.ru/books/moreplavaniya-izmenivshie-mir-istoriya-krygosvetnogo-parysnika-po-imeni-edvin-foks
2 months ago
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I am excited about speaking about the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War at this conference in Madrid next week.
mircouam.com/archivos/8571
#🗃️
#Publichistory
#SCWmuseum
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Atención, cambio de sede: Jornadas internacionales, Atado y Bien Atado. El Fin de las Dictaduras en el Sur de Europa – mirco
https://mircouam.com/archivos/8571
2 months ago
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A few days ago, the government of Spain announced the winner of the international competition for the "resignification" of Francisco Franco's the "Valley of the Fallen". The response from scholars has largely been critical.
www.eldiario.es/sociedad/res...
#Publichistory
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#SCWmuseum
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La resignificación de Cuelgamuros decepciona a los expertos: "El que quiera rezar a Franco seguirá yendo"
La propuesta que ha ganado el concurso para modificar el monumento dictatorial no convence a historiadores o especialistas en patrimonio, que ven una decisión "muy espectacular desde el punto de vista...
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/resignificacion-cuelgamuros-decepciona-expertos-quiera-rezar-franco-seguira-yendo_1_12765009.html
2 months ago
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What were bread bombs? And why did Francoist planes drop them on Madrid and other Republican cities?
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#Publichistory
www.vscw.ca/en/node/12
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Bread bomb | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/12
3 months ago
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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
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_Jux93pAa11Wj4E0TuG2HnqEjD7AYskM
3 months ago
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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
www.vscw.ca/en/node/846
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Luisa Martín Rojo | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/846
3 months ago
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Los Libros de la Catarata
3 months 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.
www.catarata.org/eve...
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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
#🗃️
#Publichistory
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The Ships of Hope (1939-1945) | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/681
3 months ago
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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.
www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
#🗃️
#Publichistory
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Republican evacuation to North Africa | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/index.php/en/node/845
3 months ago
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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
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/821
4 months ago
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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
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/821
4 months ago
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Has anyone else noticed a change in the posts to
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6 months ago
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This is fascinating, and the first article of this type I've come across:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
#AI
#Univesrity
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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
6 months ago
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Thomas Cauvin
6 months ago
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
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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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 🍁
6 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
#🗃️
#Mexico
aeon.co/videos/after...
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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
6 months ago
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Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁
6 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=alm-...
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
6 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
www.journal18.org/nq/reflectio...
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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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7 months ago
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Obligatory reading for chocolate lovers, and highly recommended for global historians.
#chocolate
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#Spain
aeon.co/essays/how-c...
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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
7 months ago
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Puerto Rico has its own history with the Spanish Civil War. Learn about it here.
#Publichistory
#🗃️
#scwmuseum
#PuertoRico
www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
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Puerto Rico | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/index.php/en/node/803
7 months ago
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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:
www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
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#Publichistory
#Spain
#scwmuseum
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7 months ago
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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
tiff.net/events/so-su...
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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
7 months ago
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Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española
7 months ago
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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Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española
7 months ago
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
7 months ago
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...
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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.
#🗃️
#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
7 months ago
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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
www.vscw.ca/en/node/698
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7 months ago
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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.
#Publichistory
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#NationalParkService
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
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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
7 months ago
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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.
aeon.co/essays/there...
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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
7 months ago
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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
#🗃️
#Spain
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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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7 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...
#🗃️
#Publichistory
#scwmuseun
#Spain
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#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
7 months ago
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Charlie Angus
8 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
8 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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8 months ago
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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
www.vscw.ca/en/node/786
www.vscw.ca/en/node/270
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Chamberí District Council | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/270
8 months ago
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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
#🗃️
#Spain
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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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
8 months ago
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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
#🗃️
#MirandadelEbro
www.vscw.ca/en/node/486
8 months ago
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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
www.vscw.ca/en/node/77
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Francoist Soldiers Reach the Mediterranean | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/77
8 months ago
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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
#🗃️
#Spain
#scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/787
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Jesús Cruz Valenciano | Virtual Spanish Civil War
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/787
8 months ago
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Waiting to see the great Rhiannon Giddens at Koerner Hall.
#banjo
#countrymusic
8 months ago
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This is a fascinating look at the divergent histories of underground parking lots in Europe and the Anglosphere.
#🗃️
#parking
#cars
aeon.co/essays/what-...
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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
8 months ago
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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.
#Publichistory
#🗃️
#Spain
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