📕 Routledge has published the book "The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24", authored by Arturo Zoffmann Rodrigues.
In it, the IHC researcher "explores the impact of the Russian Revolution on the world’s most powerful anarchist movement, the Spanish National Confederation of Labour."
"Why is the US far right finding its savior in Spanish dictator Francisco Franco?" by Jason Wilson (#TheGuardian)
"Some US far-right figures have made renewed attempts to rehabilitate the 20th century Spanish dictator Gen Francisco Franco in recent months, praising him as an avatar of religious authoritarianism, and praising his actions during and after the Spanish civil war as a model for confronting the left in the US."
"The critics of this flurry of neo-Francoism say that the real target of this revisionism is domestic attitudes to US democracy."
"For Faber, parts of the the American right are captured by “the dream of order, where social order is more important than democracy, and democracy is a threat to social order”."
A very interesting article on the "re-emergence" of Franco in Spain: "Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar" by Francisco Ferrándiz (#OpenAccess, 2021).
"Our project is revealing a new perspective on how these sites, contrary to previous assumptions, seem to have played a significant role in the configuration and evolution of trading networks throughout the Roman period."
My cousin Ivelisse Pabón does genealogical research on our family's African ancestors. She doesn't publish her work so I wanted to share a recent find.
The image is the cover of an article from the provincial #library in Cádiz #Spain. It shows the brand that was burned into the skin of people trafficked by La Companía Gaditana de Negros in 1765 to show that the transaction had paid the duties to make it " legitimate".
Revellers react to a bull with flaming horns during a festival known as "bou embolat", which was banned in Valencia in 2016, but has been reinstated by the new regional government, in Carpesa, northern Valencia, Spain, September 17. REUTERS/Eva Manez
Last week we have launched our first batch of Spanish Prize Papers online. Materials from and relating to 130 Spanish ships taken by the British in the 1740s are now in our Prize Papers Portal.
We had the honour of welcoming the Spanish Ambassador and a Spanish delegation at The National Archives to our launch event.
NYT video about the Palomares nuclear accident over Spain in 1966.
A US h-bomber was refueling in mid-air over Southern Spain. Both exploded and four h-bombs fell onto a small Spanish beach town (2 into the Mediterranean). This film examines health consequences to the clean up crew.
Today in Labor History October 20, 1895: Anarcho-syndicalist writer Gaston Leval, active in the Spanish Civil War, was born in France. He was the son of a French Communard. He escaped to Spain in 1915 to avoid conscription during WWI. Then left for Argentina during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera where he lived from 1923 to 1936. He returned to Spain and became a militant fighter, and where he documented the revolution and the urban and rural anarchist collectives.
"Toledo is not Madrid" says Mauricio Delichman, as he shows an archival source for his fascinating paper with David Gonzalez Agudo on wages, living standards & skill premia in Toledo 1517-1800, at the economichistory.ca conference hosted by Shari Eli & Laura Salisbury at the Munk School in Toronto! @econhist@economics@laborecon#Spain#Toledo#wages#LivingStandards#skill#archives#history#histodons
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Mosaic of #Hermes-Mercurius, easily recognisable by the wings on his head, representing the planet Mercury or the fourth day of the ancient Roman week, diēs Mercuriī (Wednesday).
🏛 #Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, #Spain
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1567, Catalina Micaela of #Spain was born in Madrid to Elisabeth of Valois and Philip II. She was likely namesake of her grandmother, Catherine de' Medici.
Well-educated, confident, and capable, Catalina Micaela was married to Charles Emmanuel of Savoy in 1585. Initially unpopular in Savoy (she was of foreign birth), Catalina Micaela earned loyalty by protecting Savoy from Spanish encroachment. She served as regent as well. #OTD#histodons@histodons
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Our historical objects (or assets) are organized into civilizations and these, in turn, are subdivided into collections. Each collection of assets refers to a specific cultural context (the Roman port; the Renaissance winery; etc.) and they organize the different 3D historical objects from our collection. These collections are not closed sets but rather groups of objects that will grow progressively as new pieces are added."
📰 El diario El Mundo dedicó dos páginas de su edición nacional al proyecto de arqueología de los prostíbulos, que están desarrollando Xurxo Ayán y Carlos Otero.
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1590, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor was baptized in Madrid #Spain - not much is known of her early life, but she grew up to be a #writer . Maria wrote what came to be known as the Spanish Decameron, the Novelas amorosas y ejemplares.
She was a #poet and #playwright having written Friendship Betrayed, a comedy which focused on female friendships. She advocated for women's independence (and saw convents as places of women's freedom from men). #OTD#histodons@histodons