Brevity, Spain

Hello Subscribers!

I’ll keep the newsletter short this time. The doctor told me not to type so much while my finger is trying to recover (for those new to the DT newsletter: I had an operation on my hand a few weeks ago and the healing process is taking its time).

Yesterday, a new post about the Spanish Civil War went up on the blog. It was the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of that epochal conflict, which some historians have called the “dress rehearsal for the Second World War”.

It was in 2015 that I went on a two-and-a-half-weeks-long trip to Spain (and Gibraltar) and much of the fieldwork I undertook then was related to the Spanish Civil War. So I was able to dig into my photo archive again and provide plenty of photos (19 in total) from various sites related to that conflict, especially from Barcelona, the Ebro region of Catalonia, Belchite in Aragon, and Guernica in the Basque Country.

The image above featured in the blog post too. It is a British propaganda poster (used for recruiting volunteers for the International Brigades that fought on the Republican side) that includes a photo of a child killed in Barcelona during an Italian air raid on the city.

The same line was also the title and chorus of a song by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers that was about the Spanish Civil War and the Internationals, so some of you may have heard this line in that context before.

But, heeding my doctor’s advice, I’ll leave it at this for now. Please excuse the brevity.

Have a good week – and stay safe.

Best

Peter