The Spanish Civil War Studies group is for anyone interested in the history and culture surrounding the conflict, to share and discuss resources, announce events, or plan collaborations related to the study of the Spanish Civil War / Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939).
About the profile image: Plan of the bomb falls around the Calgografia Nacional, Madrid during the Spanish Civil War; issued with the seventh edition of Goya’s ‘Los Desastres de la Guerra’, 1937 Photogravure(?) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, Trustees of the British Museum.
About the cover image: Goya, Plate 26 from ‘The Disasters of War’ (Los Desastres de la Guerra): ‘One can’t look.’ (No se puede mirar.) http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/361851
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAnne- I have your article from the Mass. Review on Cunard in my file on Salaria Kea- I’ll definitely look for your book. African American women in the SPW is such a rich and understudied area. So glad to make this connection with you!
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSo glad that you all are here! My own work has circled around African Americans and the Spanish Civil War. I edited a chapbook of correspondence and poems: Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard & Louise Thompson: Poetry, Politics & Friendship in the Spanish Civil War. I’ve also written about Cunard’s SCW scrapbook, and have some writing in the works a…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoGerda Taro’s photographs of the SPW at the International Center for Photography.
https://www.icp.org/search-results/Gerda%20Taro/all/all/relevant/0
Also, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade archives at NYU are fantastic for US participation in the war.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/alba_guides.html
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoHello all! My interests are women in photography, literature and film dealing with the SPW from historical as well as contemporary perspectives.
We are very much looking forward to Lisa Kirschenbaum’s visit to Syracuse U. this fall! Great to see you in this group. And thanks for starting up this conversation, Anne.
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John Levin replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA couple of open data sets relating to Francoist represion:
Graves of victims of Francoism:
http://vidascontadas.org/ with data at: https://github.com/VidasContadas/datasets
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John Levin replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAlthough I’m doing a PhD at Sussex University on debtors’ sanctuaries in c18th London, I have a strong interest in Spain & Spanish history, which I’d like to develop more seriously.
Especially interested in digitial history, and using computational techniques on historical data.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) has digitized much of the Comintern’s materials on the International Brigades (fond 545). The site is most easily navigated if you can read Russian, but there is some English translation, and the archives are in many languages.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThanks, Anne, for putting this group together. My book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War was published by Cambridge in 2015. It explores the personal and political lives of international communists, centering on the SCW as a key moment in the history of communism and communist life histories.
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Anna Girling posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi all – and many thanks Anne for setting up this group and inviting me to join. I’m very glad to be here! My interest in the Spanish Civil War began with my grandparents – who both went there as volunteers from the UK. I started a blog last year (http://redthirties.wordpress.com/) with the aim of looking at some of the archival materials that I…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis article doesn’t require a login: “La Guerra Civil, vista por un cuáquero inglés“
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA start:
“The digital Archive of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship is an initiative of UCSD in collaboration with several Spanish civic associations, such as the ARMH (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica), the Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos, the Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria…[Read more]
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Laura Hartmann-Villalta replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHello! I work on SCW visual culture and women’s writing. I am a happy panel contributor and collaborator.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease introduce yourself! Share your interests and previous / current / future work related to the Spanish Civil War, as well as any other info you’d like to put out there.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDo you have any favorite (digital) collections of SCW-related materials?
Searching for public domain images for the header & group avatar, I was trying to think of good places to search. The V&A had a number of posters, but weren’t easy to download for image use. (Suggestions about our cover/group image, send them my way.)
Do you know of online…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAnother suitcase of SCW photographs emerges: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lost-photographs-of-the-spanish-civil-war-found-in-a-suitcase-9c25d3pzv
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Anne Donlon created the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
