In
1976 the International Brigade Association celebrated its 40th Anniversary Reunion.
In response to this event, the Sound Archive of the Imperial War
Museum began an oral
history project on the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
Listen
to extracts
from some of our interviews with International Brigade
veterans.
The Spanish
Civil War sound collection is largely made up of interviews with British
people who served with the International Brigades. There
are also recordings of medical aid workers, non-British
volunteers, Spanish soldiers and Spanish civilians and refugees.
The collection contains very few interviews with soldiers who
fought with Franco's forces. Appeals for Nationalist veterans
have yet to yield a response.
More
about the Spanish Civil War...
Downloadable
resources [.pdf Acrobat Reader
required]:
A
short background history of
events leading up to the Spanish Civil War.
A list
of captions for the art displayed in the exhibition 'Spanish
Civil War - Dreams and Nightmares' (IWM, 20 October 2001 -
28 April 2002).
A list
of the items displayed in cases in the exhibition 'Spanish
Civil War - Dreams and Nightmares' (IWM, 20 October 2001 -
28 April 2002).
Further
resources:
The
Sound Archive
has published a guide to its Spanish Civil War
collection, priced £13.00. Available from The
Sound Archive.
The Department
of Printed Books will be publishing a catalogue of its
holdings on the Spanish Civil War. For more details telephone
0207 416 5342.
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