General background

• VIDEO For general interest if you haven’t seen it, we would particularly recommend this 6 part Granada TV series (YouTube) from the 1980s on the Spanish Civil War, They couldn’t make it today as very few survivors are still alive.
• AUDIO. In Our Time (BBC) on the Spanish Civil War with Helen Graham and Paul Preston
• Images of many of the photos we use on the tour
• SONGS: Our list on Spotify of contemporary and modern songs of the Spanish Civil War.

General reading

• Nick’s guidebook Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War is available in print and on Kindle. It is also for sale at the bar where we finish,.and in Poble-sec, Barcelona at Spice Café (Carrer Margarit, 13).It contains most of the stories we tell on the tour and lots more besides . 
• Helen Graham. The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction. This is in our opinion the best introduction to the war. (also available as an audiobook which is highly recommended). 
• Ronald Fraser. Blood Of Spain Remarkable oral history of the war based on interviews with survivors made in the 1970s. Significant portions on based on Barcelona.
• Paul Preston. The Spanish Holocaust A harrowing read from the world’s leading expert on the war, and possibly Preston’s crowning achievement, charting the barbarity on both sides but highlighting the difference between popular violence on the Republican side with the state sanctioned terror unleashed by the rebels.. 
• Antony Beevor. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. The 2006 edition, completely revised with new sections after his access to KGB archives is a great introduction to the war. Contains less battlefield history than his other works (also available as an audiobook).
• Andy Durgan The Spanish Civil War: lucid 150-page overview of the causes, course and impact of the conflict from the socialist left, but free of a doctrinaire straight-jacket.
• George Orwell. Homage to Catalonia. Still remarkably fresh and honest, this is a superb wartime journal much of which takes place in Barcelona.
• Julien Casanova: España partida en dos: Breve historia de la guerra civil española (2013). There are huge numbers of books published in Spanish and Catalan. This list is centred on sources in English but we thought this was also worth recommending for those who read Spanish.

SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILED READING AND MEDIA LIST

MORE  THINGS YOU CAN DO RELATED TO THE SCW

The war in Barcelona

• Bomb shelter: Poble Sec Refugi 307 Sun mornings only. In English at 1030: 93 256 21 00. C/- Nou de la Rambla, 169. Metro Paral.lel. email: museuhistoria@bcn.cat
• Fossar de la Pedrera (mass grave in Montjuïc). To visit yourself, take Bus 21 from Av. Paral·lel in front of Teatre Victoria. It drops you at cemetery. Once inside cemetery turn left and follow directions to Fossar. For bus back walk back past previous bus stop and out of cemetery. Walk under large bridge in front of you and then turn right up slight incline. Bus stop is a hundred metres up on the left. Every 20 minutes on weekdays and 30 weekends. (Or get a taxi). Map of cemetery: http://www.cbsa.es/doc/planols/montjuic.pdf [PLEASE NOTE ON FOOT DISTANCE IS CONSIDERABLE AND YOU ENTER THROUGH OTHER GATES) If you happen to understand Catalan Nick does free tours once a month here for Barcelona Cemeteries. An article Nick wrote on the Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of Franco in Barcelona.
• Turó de la Rovira air defences and free museum to bombing of Barcelona and shanty towns every Saturday and Sunday. 10-1400.
• Civil war posters: Rosa del Foc, Anarchist Bookshop, Joaquín Costa 34 Mon-Sat 4-9pm and Sat mornings
• MNAC: The Catalan art museum in Montjüic has an interesting permanent exhibition on the SCW, including a wallful of original posters.
• Memorial Democratic. Information centre and exhibition space in the Raval. Carrer del Peu de la Creu, 4, mtrenedo@gencat.cat and web
• BCN’s best bookshop: books in English about the war, etc: La Central Carrer d’Elisabets, 6
• Barcelona rebelde: Spanish civil War tours in Spanish – they also do interesting theatrical tours: Web: web Email: info@barcelonarebelde.com
• La Guerra Civil en Barcelona: Tours in Catalan and Spanish
• http://www.cultruta.com/particulares/rutas-abiertas/bcn-la-guerra-civil/?lang=es
• Pabellón de la República. Web The foremost research centre for the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona and one of the key centres in the world. It is currently building a unique database called SIDBRINT of all International Brigaders. Contact: Lourdes Prades: lourdesprades@ub.edu.

The war outside Barcelona

• Ebro Battle museum and sites: Excellent museum in Corbera d’Ebre (also essential for old town ruined by battle). Their site is in English (click on ENG)  and has loads of info with maps on individual battle sites (see “historic sites”):  There are several other SCW museums in the area which form a network (see web). 
• Ebro battle tours: Alan Warren: pdlhistoria@gmail.com. Alan also offers interesting Civil War tours in Barcelona. He is probably the biggest expert on the International Brigades on the ground. Web: http://pdlhistoria.wordpress.com/ Email: pdlhistoria@gmail.com
• Batalla del Ebro con Terraenllà. Expertly guided tours in Catalan, Spanish and French to the Ebro battle sites by local historians Andreu and Maite. Their website is a mine of information. https://terraenlla.com/ email: terraenlla.guiatges@gmail.com
• Museum of Exile: Well worth a visit. Just north of Figueres (Dalí). on the same border crossing where hundreds of thousands of defeated soldiers, women and children fled into an uncertain future.  http://www.museuexili.cat/
• George Orwell en Aragón. Routes in Spanish by Aragonese Orwell expert Victor Pardo.
• Centro de Interpretación de la Guerra Civil en Aragón. In the village of Robres. The war in the Aragón front where Orwell fought.
• Belchite ruined old town The most dramatic remains from the Spanish Civil War
• Cartagena bomb shelter and Civil War museum
• Almeria bomb shelter and museum
• Guernica peace museum

Spanish Civil War in Madrid

• Almudena Cros. almudenacros@gmail.com Expert and recommended.  “Dr. Almudena Cros, a researcher on the subject whose family was directly involved in the war.  Dr. Cros has been working for a number of years as a consultant, interviewer, and interpreter in numerous projects, books and documentaries related to the Spanish Civil War and has lectured on the subject.” Website
• David Mathieson: spanishsites@ymail.com Expert and recommended. Web: http://spanishsites.org/  See also article about David in the New York Times and David’s great guidebook to Madrid in the war: Frontline Madrid
• La Reina Sofia to see Guernica is strongly recommended and not just for the painting. The whole exhibition around it is brilliant, telling the story of the Pavilion of the Republic at the 1937 Paris World Fair and other artworks associated with the war. 
• Routes around the Guadarrama front (pdf)
• Guidebook (Spanish) Madrid 1936/1939. Una Guía De La Capital En Guerra
• Winter in Madrid (2006). Atmospheric English-language thriller set in postwar Madrid by C.J. Sansom

MORE DETAILED READING AND MEDIA LIST

Origins of the war

• Class and ideological differences, Military. Regional differences
• For context of 1930s in Europe see To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw (also audiobook)

The Spanish military 

• Loss of Cuba in Spanish American War of 1898 and its aftermath. (Wikipedia)
• Colonial war in Morocco. Review of Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War (2012) by Sebastian  Balfour
• Review of Franco: a biography (1993), Paul Preston. The seminal biography in English.

Barcelona contests

• Barcelona in the First World War
• Michael Eaude. Barcelona; the city that reinvented itself. The best introduction by far on the modern history of  Barcelona. A very entertaining and illuminating read. Mike’s overview Catalonia: a cultural history is also highly recommended. Both books offer fascinating blend of history, art, culture and travel.
• Robert Hughes. Barcelona His seminal and wonderful Barcelona ends rather disappointingly without much in the way of conclusion in around 1910.
• Joan Ganau: Invention and Authenticity in Barcelona’s Barri Gótic (Graduate School of Architecture, 2006)

Catalan presidents Macià and Companys and Second Spanish Republic

• Attempt by Macìa to declare a Catalan Republic in 1931 (Wikipedia). His successor, Lluís Companys, the president of Catalonia during the war was later shot by the Franco regime in Montjúic castle in October 1940. (Wikipedia)
• Declaration of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 (Wikipedia)

Ideological differences on the Left in Catalonia 

(please also see your info sheet after the tour)

• CNT (Wikipedia)
• POUM Wikipedia and Andreu Nin. See also Lois Orr, Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War, edited by Gerd-Rainer Hom (2009)
• ERC (Wikipedia)
• PSUC (Wikipedia)

Anarchism

• A Very Short Introduction to Anarchism Recommended primer. For those who want to go further in, see Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall
• Chris Ealham. Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937, Very well researched radical history of the city and anarchism. Essential reading if you are interested in the revolution in Barcelona. Available as book or online for free here.
• VIDEO. Classic anarchist documentary about the Spanish revolution. Living Utopia (ÝouTube)        

Defeat of coup in Barcelona and development across Spain

• 18-19 July the coup is defeated in Barcelona by worker militias and loyal police units. Workers get hold of 10,000s of arms.
• The war as the result of a half failed coup. For section of Britain’s establishment’s role in the coup See Franco’s Friends (2011) by Daily Telegraph journalist Peter Day

The People’s Olympiad

• Game over  An article Nick wrote for Barcelona Metropolitan
• Photos We’ve collected here
• Book. Four Weeks One Summer: When It All Went Wrong (2016) by Nicholas Whitlam. Interesting account of dual story of Barcelona and Berlin Olympics and some of the characters involved.
• The Olimpiada Popular: Barcelona 1936, Sport and Politics in an Age of War, Dictatorship and Revolution Comprehensive article
• Short article about American involvement
• Photos of American involvement
• Review of Muriel Rukeyser’s novel featuring the Olympiad Savage Coast An extract is also included in the excellent ¡No Pasarán!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War (2016).

Social Revolution

• Again see Chris Ealham’s Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937. Available as book or online for free here.
• VIDEO Ethel Macdonald A very interesting story about a Scottish anarchist woman’s involvement.
• Telephone Exchange and Hotel Colon taken over the CNT and Communist Party respectively
• VIDEO The film Land and Freedom by Ken Loach and VIDEO Loach On Location making of Land and Freedom (1995)

George Orwell

• Homage to Catalonia (Wikipedia)
• Looking back on the Spanish War – an essay Orwell wrote 6 years later.
• VIDEO: George Orwell BBC Arena Part 3 Homage to Catalonia (YouTube). Made in 1983
• AUDIO: BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub, George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia
• TOUR George Orwell en Aragón. Routes in Spanish by Aragonese Orwell expert Victor Pardo.
• TOUR George Orwell’s London by Diarmaid Ward . http://orwellslondontour.webs.com/

Anticlericalism and violence on Republican side v Francoist violence

• Photos of anticlerical violence
• The Franco regime as a state of fear; the Transition, SCW and politics of memory today, discussion of historical memory around the world
• For more on the violence we would recommend Paul Preston’s The Spanish Holocaust. A harrowing read from the world’s leading expert on the war, and possibly Preston’s crowning achievement, charting the barbarity on both sides but highlighting the difference between popular violence on the Republican side with the state sanctioned terror unleashed by Franco’s rebels.

The militias

• VIDEO The film Land and Freedom by Ken Loach and VIDEO Loach On Location making of Land and Freedom (1995)
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Aerial bombing

• Bomb shelter: Poble Sec Refugi 307 Sun mornings only. In English at 1030: 93 256 21 00. C/- Nou de la Rambla, 169. Metro Paral.lel. email: museuhistoria@bcn.cat. See Art below for the painting Guernica.
• Turó de Rovira bomb defences and free museum to the bombing of Barcelona (Saturday and Sunday mornings only) Also possibly the best view of Barcelona. Web (English).
• Original article by George Steer of The Times denouncing the bombing of Guernika.

1937 May Days

• May Days (Wikipedia). For a thorough study see Helen Graham’s ‘Against the State’: A Genealogy of the Barcelona May Days.
• Aftermath and effect on Orwell as a writer. 
• Murder of Andreu Nin. 
• FILM Land and Freedom by Ken Loach and Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (see above).

Art and culture

• Two posters: Les milicies us necessiten and Rope sandal crushing swastika
• Civil war posters: Rosa del Foc, Anarchist Bookshop, Joaquín Costa 34 Mon-Sat 4-9pm and Sat mornings
• American mass culture in Barcelona
• How the Spanish Republic saved the Prado’s masterpieces A fascinating story
• Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon by Gijs van Hensbergen. This book tells the complete story. A visit to the Reina Sofia in Madrid to see Guernica is stronger recommended and not just for the painting. The whole exhibition around it is brilliant, telling the story of the Pavilion of the Republic at the 1937 Paris World Fair and other artworks associated with the war. In 2017, the Reina Sofia published online a stunning new web called Rethinking Guernica with hundreds of remarkable images and interesting text. In Barcelona, the MNAC, the Catalan art museum in Montjüic, has an interesting permanent exhibition on the SCW, including a wallful of original posters. AUDIO. In Our Time BBC discussion. Picasso’s Guernica. 
• Death of truth: when propaganda and ‘alternative facts’ Excellent article from The Guardian about the rise of propaganda throughout the world in the 1930s.

Literature

• AUDIO: LSE Literary Festival 2016: Fact versus Fiction? The Spanish Civil War in the Literary Imagination. With Paul Preston and Helen Graham. Literary Festival 2016: Fact versus Fiction? The Spanish Civil War in the Literary Imagination.
• No Pasarán! Writings from the Spanish Civil War (2016) A fine and unusual collection of fiction and essay by Spanish and international writers.
• The Forging of a Rebel (1941-46, La Forja de un Rebelde). The classic trilogy of the Civil War by Republican exile Arturo Barea.
• Uncertain Glory (1956, Incerta glòria). A grim indictment of violence on both sides by Catalan novelist Joan Sales.
• The Time of Doves (1980, La plaça del Diamant). Mercè Rodoreda’s classic Catalan novel telling of a young woman’s struggles in life to the backdrop of the Republic and the war.
• Soldiers of Salamis (2001, Soldados de Salamina) by Javier Cercas. This complex detective-story blend of fact and fiction is a wonderful read and was a publishing phenomenon. 
• The Blind Sunflowers (2004, Los girasoles ciegos) by Alberto Méndez.
• Winter in Madrid (2006). Atmospheric English-language thriller set in postwar Madrid by C.J. Sansom.
• The man who loved dogs (2009, El hombre que amaba a los perros). Novel by Cuban author Leonardo Padura about the parallel stories of Trotsky, Ramon Mercader the Barcelonan assassin who killed him and a Cuban dissident who stumbles on the past.
• See also here our longer compilation of novels on the Spanish Civil War (everything from Icelandic, Albanian through to English and Catalan)

Graphic Novels

• Los surcos del azar (By Paco Roca, The Furrows of Chance). Tells the moving and heroic tale of the Spaniards who helped liberate Paris. Review in English from The Volunteer)

Cinema

• Land and Freedom – Ken Loach
• Butterfly’s Tongue (La lengua de las mariposas)- José Luis Cuerda
• Soldiers of Salamis (Soldados de Salamina) – David Trueba
• The Blind Sunflowers (Los girasoles ciegos) – José Luis Cuerda

Photography and journalism

• The Spanish Civil War and War Photography (UCSD)
• The Aura of the Cause: Photographs from the Spanish Civil War
• Robert Capa (Wikipedia)
• Agusti Centelles (Wikipedia) (Photos here). 
• Gerda Taro (Wikipedia) and Gerda Taro The Life and work of Gerda Taro (YouTube – excellent lecture on her life)
• VIDEO. Documentary The Mexican Suitcase (YouTube – Trailer to documentary)

• Ricard Martinez a colleague of ours runs his own excellent tour “Fighting Gazes” – a walking tour around the city as seen through the eyes of international photojournalists who witnessed the Spanish Civil War.  If you are interested his email is ricard@arqueologiadelpuntdevista.org
• Book. We saw Spain die. Paul Preston’s superb study of foreign journalists in the conflict. See also the study (pdf) The British media and the Spanish Civil War.

Women

There are numerous books in Spanish on the role of women but relatively few in English

• Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War by Mary Nash. This essential text is not cheap, though you can read sections on Google Books.
• Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War (2002) Don’t know if this film is available online.

International humanitarian aid

• Medicine and the Spanish Civil War. A very good article.

The International Brigades and role of different states

• AUDIO Las Brigadas Internacionales (Spanish RNE, 2016)
• Google map of the hundreds of memorials around the world to the IBs
• Wikipedia
• A collection of images we’ve put together of volunteers around the world (divided by nationalities)

US

• ALBA Official site of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion archives. Great also for news.
• Adam Hochschild: Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. Superb telling of the role of American fighters and journalists in Spain and that of, for example, Texaco support for Franco. VIDEO See also talks by the author Spain in Our Hearts and Rewriting the Spanish Civil War (both YouTube)
• American soldiers in the Spanish Civil War (New Yorker 2016) 
• VIDEO and article (Democracy Now) Fighting Fascism: The Americans – Women and Men – Who Fought in the Spanish Civil War

• African Americans in the Spanish Civil War – follow sublinks too. See also  VIDEO: Trailer for documentary Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War (2015) the article African-Americans Fought for the Spanish Republic
• John McCain: Salute to a Communist – McCain’s surprising elegy to the last American brigader Delmar Berg (The New York Times)

Britain

• Richard Baxell: Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism. Essential reading for those interested in British volunteers. 
• International Brigade Memorial Trust Great resource
• VIDEO Voices from a Mountain  (follow the parts to watch whole thing) Documentary film about British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, focusing on the re-discovery of a memorial to English-speaking soldiers killed at the Battle of the Ebro in summer 1938.
• VIDEO: The Scots who fought Franco (YouTube – in parts)
• For Britain’s establishment’s role in the coup See Franco’s Friends (2011) by Daily Telegraph journalist Peter Day
• Book: Tom Buchanan:  The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain: War, Loss and Memory (2007).
• Obituaries: Thomas Watters: Last known survivor of the Scots volunteers (2012)
• VIDEO. Gibraltar during the Spanish Civil War. Excellent.

France

• Comprehensive documentary VIDEO La Tragédie des Brigades Internationales (ÝouTube)
• Excellent site about posters and Spanish Civil War. Articles and images. Les Afiches des combattants de la liberte

Ireland

• Website on Ireland and the Spanish Civil War.
• VIDEO Brigadista – Irish Brigade in the Spanish Civil War is an excellent documentary.
• Bob Doyle’s biography is a great memoir of an Irish Brigader: Brigadista: an Irishman’s fight against fascism
• And if you don’t know it Christy Moore’s song is superb – one of our favourite in English about the war Christy Moore – Viva la Quinta Brigada. Live at Barrowland (Glasgow)
• On Northern Irish volunteers from the Shankill: Belfast’s Shankill hails its republican heroes”

Canada

• Michael Petrou’s book Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War
• AUDIO Excellent CBA radio doc: Canada’s “MacPaps” and the Spanish Civil War and second part here.
• VIDEO Online film about Norman Bethune “This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world’s first mobile blood-transfusion service.”
• Wikipedia: Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion
• From Ottawa to Spain and back again: Canadians in the SCW
• ‘You are history. You are legend.’ Canada’s last Spanish Civil War vet dies

New Zealand and Australia

• New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War Excellent website. See also AUDIO See NZ radio on Nurse Isabel Maguire remembering her time in Spain and memories of NZ brigader Tom Spiller.
• Kiwi Compañeros by Mark  Derby A thorough account of New Zealanders in the Spanish civil war
• Monument in Canberra to Aussie IBs
• Australian Participation in the Spanish Civil War (PDF).

Continental Europe

• CYPRUS Cypriots in the International Brigades
• DENMARK Book: Breve fra Den Spanske Borgerkrig (2014) by Brødrene Nielsen. Letters from three Danish brothers, brothers Harald, Kai and Aage Nielsen, who fought in Spain. Articles in Danish (both 2016) Danske frivillige i Den Spanske Borgerkrig and Her drog danskere frivilligt i krig på egen hånd about the some 500 Danes who came to Spain. 150 died. Photos of Danish volunteers and posters. Article in Danish newspaper about Gustaf Munch-Petersen Den unge digter, der faldt i kampen for en bedre fremtid.
• GERMANY. 1937 Poster by young German refugees in France calling to aid Spain.
• ICELAND: Biography of Hallgrimur Hallgrimsson. The novel Yfir Ebrofljótið (Over the Ebro, 2003) La participación de islandeses en la Guerra Civil Española – comprehensive study in Spanish.
• NETHERLANDS: Stichting Spanje Site about Dutch volunteers and comprehensive article (pdf) by Koen Vossen Nederland en de Spaanse Burgeroorlog. In Spanish see La Mirada Holandesa.
• NORWAY: VIDEO (50 mins) Lunsjpåfyll SpanskBogerkrig Story of Norwegian journalist Lise Lindbæk Norwegian volunteer Nordahl Grieg. The book Tusen dager: Norge og den spanske borgerkrigen (2009) is the essential history of Norwegian participation.
• POLAND: Wikipedia Polish volunteers See also Remembering the Polish Volunteers from the Spanish Civil War. Warsaw, 2016. A Telling Omission: Polish participation in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. An unusual perspective from Poland written in 1977 decrying official state omission of very prominent Polish (all Jewish) volunteers.
• SWITZERLAND: short BBC article on the Swiss volunteers and their recent pardon. 
• USSR: Although we haven’t read it, we have been recommended personally by Paul Preston: Stalin’s Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov by Boris Volodarsky (OUP). Prelude here by Paul Preston See also documentary in Spanish Sobre el cielo de Azerbaiyán (YouTube) about Republican pilots trained in Azerbaijan during the Civil War and their later role in WW2.
• YUGOSLAVIA: Yugoslav Volunteers in
  the Spanish Civil War by Vjeran Pavlaković. Comprehensive article PDF See also Asociación Brigadistas Yugoslavos

Latin America

• This comprehensive study. LOS VOLUNTARIOS LATINOAMERICANOS EN LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA
• Doctorate study – Mexico and the Spanish Republic (PDF). 1931-1939 As far we understand Juan Miguel de Mora Vaquerizo is the last surviving International  Brigader from anywhere. See also Las raíces del exilio: México ante la Guerra Civil Española, 1936-1939 (Part can be read on Google books)
• Study (pdf) about the 41 Brazilian volunteers.O Brasil e a Guerra Civil Espanhola: Participação de brasileiros no conflito 

Others

• ARAB COUNTRIES The Arab World and the Spanish Civil War VIDEO Teaser for documentary in English on the hundreds of Arabs who fought in the International Brigades. Article in Spanish and another one.. Photograph of Nuri Anwar Rufail.

• CHINA Fascinating article Chinese volunteers in Spain (2016). Published in English in the South China Morning Post. See also the book Los brigadistas chinos en la guerra civil. La llamada de España  by Len and Hwei-Ru Tsou. Only available in Mandarin and Spanish.
• ISRAEL: Article about Shmuel Segal. The Last Surviving Member of the International Brigades in Israel Dies (2012)
• INDIA: Articles Gopal Mukund Huddar: An Indian Volunteer in the IBs and  Why these Indians fought for Spanish democracy and Indian Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Fascism, and the Spanish Civil War. See also A few photos we’ve collected here of Indian involvement 
• JAPAN Franco’s Spain and the Japanese Empire. An interesting article. See also Jack Shirai, the only known Japanese volunteer in the IBs. 

Battle of the Ebro 

• Wikipedia
• Ebro battle tours: Alan Warren: pdlhistoria@gmail.com. Alan also offers interesting Civil War tours in Barcelona. He is probably the biggest expert on the International Brigades on the ground
• Web: http://pdlhistoria.wordpress.com/ Email:. pdlhistoria@gmail.com. 
• Ebro Battle museum and sites: Excellent museum in Corbera d’Ebre (also essential for old town ruined by battle). Their site is in English (click on ENG)  and has loads of info with maps on individual battle sites (see “historic sites”):  There are several other SCW museums in the area which form a network (see web).

Fall of Barcelona, Catalonia and the Republic

• Photos (Barcelona) 
• VIDEO Paul Preston and Ian Kershaw discuss Preston’s book the Last Days of the Spanish Republic (YouTube) 

Francoism

• Helen Graham: Interrogating Francoism: History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain (2016) Superbly dissects the regime.
• AUDIO. The Cathedral of the Fallen. BBC Radio 4 illuminating about the horror represented by Franco’s mausoleum. 
• Paul Preston: Franco: A biography. The seminal work on the dictator.
• VIDEO Spain’s stolen babies (BBC – YouTube) – more than 200,000 taken by the Franco regime (and after).
• Book: Valley of the Fallen: The (N)ever Changing Face of General Franco’s Monumen (2013) by Gareth Stockey
• Nick’s article on the Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of Franco in Barcelona

Exile and camps in France

• Museum of Exile: Well worth a visit. Just north of Figueres (Dalí). on the same border crossing where hundreds of thousands of defeated soldiers, women and children fled into an uncertain future.  http://www.museuexili.cat/
• Book. The routes to exile: France and the Spanish Civil War refugees, 1939-2009 (2017) By Scott Soo.
• Book. Love And War In The Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey. A moving, highly recommended blend of  travelogue, history and personal account. Beautifully written.
• Excellent blog piece in English about visit to Argeles concentration camp and translation of Pau Casals’ moving letter describing conditions there in 1939.
• Franco refugees still haunted by the past (The Guardian, 2019)

Spanish Republicans in the Second World War

• AUDIO Spaniards in the Second World War. [Listen to this BBC Radio 4 documentary on the role of the Spanish maquis in the French Resistance beginning with memories of the camps in France. Here]
• Ebook. LA NUEVE 24 August, 1944: The Spaniards Who Liberated Paris by Evelyn Mesquida Also good on the exile.
• If you understand Spanish. La Nueve: Los olvidados de la victoria (TVE) – about Spanish Republicans’ remarkable role in the liberation of Paris

Spanish Republicans in the Nazi camps

• Mauthausen (wiki)
• Francesc Boix  (article)
• Excellent new (Feb 2015) TVE documentary about Francesc Boix.(Spanish)
• Boix’s statement at Nuremberg (Text in English) Boix’s testimony (YouTube)
• David Wingeate Pike: Spaniards in the Holocaust (2004). The Spanish version of this academic book is much cheaper and updated.

Individual participants

• Marina Ginestà: Obituary in English, Wikipedia, Interview with her son (Spanish, 2016, El Periódico) VIDEO. Marina Ginestá: una foto para el recuerdo (TVE – short video news item). Poster with Ginestà produced by Barcelona City Council commemorating the 80th anniversary  of the war in 2016. High-res PDF for printing as poster.
• Ramon Mercader: The man who loved dogs. Novel by Cuban author Leonardo Padura about the parallel stories of Trotsky, Ramon Mercader the Barcelonan assassin who killed him and a Cuban dissident who stumbles on the past. Wikipedia 

Other books

• Giles Tremlett. Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past The best introduction to contemporary Spain with an interesting discussion on the how the Civil War still affects the county today, but also with insightful and at times amusing chapters on topics such as children, flamenco and sex. Good chapter too on Catalonia. Written by The Guardian correspondent to Spain.
• Jason Webster: Guerra: Living in the shadows of the Spanish Civil War. His other books including Duende: A journey in search of Flamenco (2003) are also recommended.
• Paddy Woodworth: The Basque Country: a cultural history. Fascinating and well-written account of this complex land. 

Other Barcelona tours

• General Tours in Barcelona: tip-funded, passionate, excellent: runnerbeantours@gmail.com Web http://www.runnerbeantours.com/
• Private official guide: Dan Wilde – knowledgeable and fun with access to official sites as a guide http://www.ourmaninbarcelona.com/ Email: dan@ourmaninbarcelona.com
• Barcelona Food Tours: Both delicious and recommended: contact@thebarcelonataste.com or info@taste-barcelona.com.
• And for a bit more off the beaten track, great foodie explorations in the neighbourhood of Gràcia: http://devourbarcelonafoodtours.com/
• Food tours in Madrid: http://madridfoodtour.com/ These people know their stuff. Check out their excellent website

London

• David Rosenberg’s East End Walks http://www.eastendwalks.com/ Bringing London’s radical Jewish history to life. “people and places of the East End.
• George Orwell’s London by Diarmaid Ward . http://orwellslondontour.webs.com/