Hello Anne, I’ve just joined the group so the reply comes very late. I have read The Winterlings and loved it. It’s really my type of fiction. Have you read it in the end?

That said, I wonder why the author decided to suggest that Spanish/Basque children may have suffered or been exploited in their time as refugees in the UK? In the Marx Memorial…[Read more]

Also here in the UK, the University of Warwick has an archive on the Spanish Civil War from papers of the Trades Union Congress. They are all digitised which is quite amazing. My favourite items are in Spanish Situation: Pamphlets, leaflets etc.

Attached is cover of pamphlet by the Labour Party, one that we also hold at the MML. I find it…[Read more]

I’m working at the Marx Memorial Library in London. The library is home to the Spanish Collection, which is an archive of more than 7000 items, initially gathered by British International Brigaders and their families. We have just completed cataloguing the collection thanks to a grant from the National Archives (link below). Only very few items…[Read more]

Hello!

I had some information on my profile already, but wanted to add more.

I’ve added:
my CV (love the feature; great for juniors like me!),
an About (kept it brief, and added a personal tone),
Education (very easy to do, copy+paste from CV, really),
Cover image (I had a profile photo already, which people who know me think ‘it’s very me’;…[Read more]

Hello! I’m Mariana Ou. Recently received my MSc Library Science from City, University of London, after a few years working as an architect in Brazil. Now in the UK, I’ve been doing library & archive work, which I love. Considering going back to research in a PhD; still thinking about choice of institution, topic, timing (I might be the most junior…[Read more]

Ben:

I’m interested in contributing constructively to this online reading group. The text of Barthes’s that I know best is Mythologies. I read S/Z years ago while surveying the topography of narrative theory in general. I’m gearing up to teach a couple of narrative-heavy courses in the fall semester and planning to forge ahead with a writing…[Read more]