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Tate: Miró and the Spanish Civil War

June 24, 2011
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Tate: Miró and the Spanish Civil War

The Tate Modern's Marko Daniel--co-curator of Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, up until September--blogs on Miró's Still Life with an Old Shoe, often considered to be the Catalan painter's "Guernica":

Just before starting on the still-life he wrote, ‘We are living through a terrible drama, everything happening in Spain is terrifying...
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PBS Lincoln Brigade Segment: Preview

June 24, 2011
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PBS Lincoln Brigade Segment: Preview

PBS has just uploaded the 20-minute segment from next week's episode of History Detectives featuring the story of Lincoln volunteers Sol Fellman and Doug Roach. Watch the segment here:
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Matti Mattson to appear on PBS

June 22, 2011
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Matti Mattson to appear on PBS

The Village Soup previews next week's episode of the PBS series History Detectives, which interviewed Matti Mattson for a segment on the friendship between Lincoln volunteers Sol Fellman and Doug Roach (more details here):

Ilona Mattson described her father as a vigorous and youthful man who went to the gym twice...
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NYTimes on DBE-gate and Valley of the Fallen

June 22, 2011
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NYTimes on DBE-gate and Valley of the Fallen

Writing for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, Raphael Minder explains the continuing controversies in Spain over Franco and his legacy:

the war and its victor,Francisco Franco, still generate plenty of heated debate in Spain. One of the unexpected and...
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July 2: Fifth Brunete March

June 21, 2011
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The Association of Friends of the International Brigades (AABI) has just announced the Fifth Brunete Memorial March, to be held in Spain on July 2. See for more information the flyer (pdf).
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A Father’s Day letter to a SCW vet

June 19, 2011
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A Father’s Day letter to a SCW vet

In response to the Guardian´s request for father's day letters, Julie Norton writes to her father, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who died in 1958:

I was too young and self-absorbed to appreciate that actually you were a hero, a veteran of the Spanish civil war. You didn't see much...
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Debate about Valley of the Vallen heats up

June 19, 2011
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Debate about Valley of the Vallen heats up

Guy Hedgecoe covers the continuing controversy over the Valle de los Caídos for the Deutsche Welle:

Three decades after the transition to democracy that followed Franco's death, the Socialist government intends now to turn the monument into a symbol of reconciliation between the two sides in the Civil War, which started...
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Spain looking into 849 cases of stolen babies

June 19, 2011
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The AP reports:

Spanish prosecutors are investigating 849 cases of newborn children stolen from their mothers and sold to other families for profit, the country's attorney general said Friday. Candido Conde-Pumpido said 162 cases had already been referred for trial and only 38 have been dropped for a lack of evidence. It is well...
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Bernard-Henry Lévy on Semprún

June 19, 2011
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Bernard-Henry Lévy on Semprún

Bernard-Henry Lévy pays tribute to Jorge Semprún, the Spanish novelist and public intellectual who died earlier this month:

He had the eyes of a warrior, but his gaze became veiled and a bit haunted when he spoke of "his" dead -- glorious elders of the Spanish Civil War, companions of the maquis...
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Jack Jones vindicated

June 13, 2011
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Jack Jones vindicated

Our friend Manus O'Riordan writes: On June 6, 2011, Athol Books of Belfast, Northern Ireland, published a new web booklet on its site entitled The Vindication of Brigadista and Union Man Jack James Larkin Jones: in refutation of the British intelligence campaign of character assassination. This booklet brings together a series of five articles written...
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