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The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War

June 16, 2010
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The fundamental study by a Benedictine monk on the role of the Catholic Church in the Spanish Civil War, Hilari Raguer's Gunpowder and Incense, translated by Gerald Howson, can now be read in its entirety online. "The history of the Catholic Church in Spain," Paul Preston writes in the prologue,

parallels that...
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Prominent Spaniards read victims’ testimonies

June 16, 2010
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Just uploaded to YouTube: "Contra la impunidad" (Against Impunity), a nine-minute video put together by Pedro Almodóvar's production company, in which a number of well-known Spanish actors and intellectuals (including Pilar and Javier Bardem, Juan Diego, and Almodóvar himself) read first-person narratives of victims of Nationalist and Francoist repression. The video emphasizes that...
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Capa and Kati Horna

June 15, 2010
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Joanna Moorhead, writing in The Independent, reveals that the two Hungarian photographers of the Spanish Civil War were in love: He was the legendary war photographer, a man who alternated dodging death on battlefields with a glamorous, star-studded life-style; she was a self-effacing, left-wing intellectual who preferred to stay out of the limelight, hidden...
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Surreal Friends in the wake of the Spanish Civil War

June 12, 2010
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Surreal Friends in the wake of the Spanish Civil War

Opening next week at the Pallant House Gallery: "Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna"--three women whose lives and work were deeply marked by the Spanish Civil War:

When Mexico opened its borders to refugees from Europe in the late 1930s, it attracted a host of artists fleeing...
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Sao Paolo newspaper covers Cartier-Bresson find

June 12, 2010
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Silas Martí writes in the Folha de Sao Paolo on Juan Salas' discovery of Henri Cartier-Bresson's long-lost Spanish Civil War documentary, With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain (clip here):

Na época, o artista já tinha uma reputação como fotógrafo de toada surrealista. Mas, na volta ao cinema por...
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Gearing up for two ALBA summer institutes

June 10, 2010
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After holding successful week-long institutes for high-school teachers in New York City and Tampa, Florida, last year, ALBA is proud to announce its first institute in the Midwest, entitled "Ohio and the Spanish Civil War" (June 13-18). The Institute is co-sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council, Oberlin College, and the Puffin Foundation....
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Nottingham International Brigade monument to be rededicated

June 10, 2010
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Nottingham International Brigade monument to be rededicated

The monument, which was hijacked last year by the local representatives of the Conservative Part, will be rededicated on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War, July 17. More here.
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Swiss lawmakers behind Garzón

June 10, 2010
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Expatica reports:

Sixty Swiss parliamentarians on Thursday lent their support to Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, who has been suspended over an alleged abuse of power linked to a probe of Franco-era crimes. In a statement published Thursday, the mostly left-wing lawmakers from the two chambers of Swiss parliament expressed "total support...
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New SCW film by Alex de la Iglesia

June 10, 2010
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Renowned Spanish filmmaker and president of the Academy of Spanish Cinema Alex de la Iglesia is reported to be working on a new Spanish Civil War project:

1937 Spanish civil war, Javier and Sergio, two circus clowns are in love with the same woman, a dancer. They are recruited by...
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Garzón: “The seeds of justice have been sown”

June 9, 2010
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Garzón: “The seeds of justice have been sown”

Mr. Garzón said that he did not expect to stay in the Netherlands beyond December and that he was not considering another job switch should his legal problems worsen.
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