Spanish Civil War

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The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936. Thousands of volunteers went from Britain to join others in the International Brigade, and the USSR, to fight with the Spanish Republicans against fascism

National Archives

To mark the 75th anniversary in July 2011, The National Archives has made records relating to British and Irish volunteers in the war available at National Archive - Documents Online
The records include a list of over 4,000 volunteers who left Britain to join the fight against fascism and a roll of honour of those killed in action
Learn more at The National Archives news page

International Brigade Memorial Trust

Find details of educational materials, memorials and more at the International Brigade Memorial Trust
The Trust's web site includes a large section about the British volunteers

Imperial War Museum

At Spanish Civil War, Dreams and Nightmares you can listen to extracts from interviews with International Brigade veterans, in an archive begun by the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum after the 40th anniversary in 1976
At VADS , the online resource for the visual arts, click the link 'View all images' to view the Imperial War Museum's Spanish Civil War Poster Collection

The Guardian newspaper

In 2000, The Guardian newspaper interviewed 23 of the then 40 survivors
Read the background at Last of the brigade
Read their accounts and view photographs at The Spanish Civil War Remembered

Books and newspapers online

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Credo Reference

- search "Spanish Civil War", including the quotation marks as shown here

- search guernica to read about Picasso's famous painting 'Guernica' inspired by the devastating bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The painting has come to symbolise the savagery of war

Oxford Art Online

- search guernica to view an image of Picasso's painting

Oxford Reference Online

- search "Spanish Civil War". Try the search first with the quotation marks as shown here and then again without them. The second time you will find additional relevant results among some less relevant ones

Encyclopedia Britannica

- search "spanish civil war" for background articles, images and videos. For the videos, click the 'Multimedia' links on the results page

Times Digital Archive

- search "spanish civil war" for archive news reports

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Page last updated: 14th July 2011