Newspaper, TV and blog reviews of our Spanish Civil War tours, and Podcasts and other related stuff.

Featured in numerous newspaper articles including The Guardian, inews and The Irish Times 

Guidebooks

Strongly recommeneded in the Barcelona guides books of Lonely Planet (2022), Time Out, Rough Guide and Rick Steves (2022).

Press

• Barcelona and the Spanish civil war (22 July 2012, The Guardian)
• Nick Lloyd rescata el turismo de la guerra civil del olvido – (3 June, 2012, El Periódico)
• L’atractiu turístic de la Guerra Civil (20 June 2012, Ara) Behind paywall. Complete PDF here (above photo)
• Barcelona’s darker past (Summer 2013, Living Spain)
• Ghosts of the Past (2013, TimeOut guide to Barcelona – my short section for the guidebook)
• Echoes of an uncivil war (March 2013, South China Morning Post)
• Spain: Shots that echo nearly eighty years later (New Zealand Herald, 2015)
• Els fills d’Orwell i del capità Kopp reviuen la Barcelona del 37 (Ara, 2015)
• Eighty years on, Spain may at last be able to confront the ghosts of civil war (The Guardian/Observer, 2016)

Tours with the Orwell society with Orwell’s son Richard Blair and Quentin Kopp

• The Orwell Society field trip to Barcelona and the trenches (2013)
• The Orwell Society field trip to Barcelona and the trenches (2015)
• The Orwell Society field trip to Barcelona and the trenches (2019)
• The Orwell Society field trip to Barcelona and the trenches (2022)

Podcasts

 The tours have been featured in a number of popular podcasts: 

• Brigadistas: Ireland and the Spanish Civil War
• Working class history. The Spanish Civil War (2 episodes)
• Sobremesa
• When in Spain

TV, film and radio

• Desenterrem història al cementiri de Montjuïc (31 October 2013, TV3)
• De ruta pel Fossar de la Pedrera del cementiri de Montjuïc (19  January 2014, BTV)
• S’organitzen visites guiades gratuïtes al Fossar de la Pedrera, a Montjuïc (31 October 2013, BTV)
• Ruta de la Guerra Civil Española (2012, BTV)
• Ruta turística por la Barcelona de la Guerra Civil (2015 Radio Nacional de España)
• Interview about my tours in English (2015, Punt-Avui TV)
• Turisme cultiral (2016, Arts i oficis, Canal 33)
• Selects reel for unfinished documentary A Song for Carlos about a Canadian woman following in the footsteps of her International Brigader grandfather.

Stuff

• Free guided tours with Barcelona Cementaries to the Fossar de la Pedrera in Catalan/Spanish (2013-2016)
• Una passejada per la Barcelona d’Homenatge a Catalunya (Dia Orwell – CCCB) Yearly
• Experimenta la Guerra Civil a Barcelona (BTV)
• Lecture on The Fossar de la Pedrera, a Commemorative Space as part of the Association of Significant Cemeteries of Europe: AGM 2014
• Lecture as part of “Sense of place: local communities, responsibility and the visitor experience” (International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations, ESADE 2013)
• Lecture for MA in tourism management on historical memory tourism at Girona University. 2014 (also tour here
• Virtual tour for British Spanish Society on George Orwell

Blogs and websites

• Barcelona and the Civil War history tour with Nick Lloyd (2013, New Zealand author Carolina Angus Baker)
• War (2017, Art Is The Proper Task Of Life)
• Anarchism in Barcelona Part I: The Spanish Civil War (Vaga Brothers Travel)
• Algunos turistas buenos (Districte 15) Great photos!
• Spain: in search of civil war and revolution – (2014, Irish History podcast)
• Barcelona: Neighbourhoods of noise (2012, Red Pepper)
• A Morning in Barcelona (2106, Absolom Bracer blog, draws links with WW2)
• Visita per la Barcelona de la Guerra Civil: una manera diferent de veure la ciutat (2012, Pabellón de la República – Universidad de Barcelona)
• El Fossar de la Pedrera (2013, La meva Barcelona)
• Un lugar olvidado… el Fossar de la Pedrera (2013, La Barcelona que me gusta)
• Shadows of a revolution (2013, Irish Anarchist Review)
• Spanish Civil War in Barcelona (Barcelona Food) Great photos!
• Spanish Civil War Tour (2013, Floaker)
• Visita per la Barcelona de la Guerra Civil: una manera diferent de veure la ciutat (2012, El País, blog)
• Taking it to the Street (2013, Lehrer Werkstatt)
• Englishman leads SCW tours in Barcelona (2012, The Volunteer – Founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade)
• Barcelona diary: Celebrating radical history (2012, Libcom, blog)
• Civil War Tours in Barcelona (2012, Spanish Civil War Photography)
• Barcelona (2013, MC Hack)
• A sense of place trail through Barcelona (2012, Sense Our Way)