Numerous themes and topics come up on the tour depending on the day, the participants the questions and our current interests.
Pre-war
- Land owning patterns in pre-war Spain
- Regional differences
- The 1936 People’s Olympiad
- Origins of the war
Ideological differences on the left
Anarchism
- History of anarchism in Spain and the CNT
- Buenaventura Durruti
Others
- POUM
- ERC
- PC / PSUC – the Communist party
- PSOE
The military coup
Revolution
- The anarchist revolution
- The role of women and Mujeres Libres
- George Orwell’s arrival
- Revolutionary violence
- The militias to Aragón
- George Orwell on the Aragón front
The conflict
- The Aragón front
- The Battle of Jarama
- Belchite
- The Battle of Teruel
- The Battle of the Ebro
- Disease and pests
- Medical advances
The homefront
- The bombing of Gernika (and Picasso’s painting and the Republican pavillion at the 1937 Paris World Fair
- The bombing of Barcelona
Britain and the Spanish Civil War
- Britain and the Spanish Civil War
- Wales and the Spanish Civil War
- Scotland and the Spanish Civil War
- The Independent Labour Party
The International Brigades
- Americans and the Spanish Civil War
- Australia and the Spanish Civil War
- Arabic countries
- Canada and the Spanish Civil War
- Finland and the Spanish Civil War
- France and the Spanish Civil War
- Germans (anti-Nazis) and the Spanish Civil War
- India and the Spanish Civil War
- Ireland and the Spanish Civil War
- Mexico and the Spanish Civil War
- Netherlands and the Spanish Civil War
- New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War
- Norway and the Spanish Civil War
- The USA and the Spanish Civil War
- Yugoslavia and the Spanish Civil War
International state responses
- Germany
- Italy
- USSR
Art and culture
- International journalists
- Photography and the Spanish Civil War
- Robert Capa
- Gerda Taro
- Kati Horna
- Margaret Michaelis
- Art and the Spanish Civil War
- Music and songs and the Spanish Civil War
- Paul Robeson in Spain
- Poster art
- Goya
- Dalí
- Cinema
- Federico García Lorca
- Hemingway
- Martha Gelhorn
- Laurie Lee
- Football
- Languages
Children and the Spanish Civil War
- Education and schools during the Spanish Civil War
- Basque refugee children in the UK
- Republican refugee children in the USSR, Mexico and other countries.
Exile
- The Spanish Republican exile
- Spanish Republican role in the Second World War
- Spanish republicans in the Nazi camps
People
- Marina Ginestà
- Dolores Ibárruri – La Pasionaria
Francoism
- The fall of Barcelona to Franco’s army
- Francoism: repression and violence
- Francisco Franco
- The Falange
- Cinema during the Franco regime
Neighborhoods of Barcelona
- Poble-sec and Montjuïc
Elsewhere in Spain
- Madrid
- The Basque Country
Today
- The Transition to democracy
- Memory wars of the Spanish Civil War today