I love the diversity of microhistory. My book on the Edwin Fox looked at 19th century globalization through the lens of a single merchant vessel. In The World and a Very Small Place in Africa, Donald R. Wright stayed in Niumi,The Gambia and watched what happened over centuries.
If you’ve ever wondered about what happened when during the Spanish Civil War, you should check out the 60 point timeline in the Virtual Museum. #🗃️ #Scwmuseum #Spain #Publichistory
www.vscw.ca/timeline
During the Spanish Civil War, film makers used music to communicate political ideas. Look - and listen - here to find out how. #🗃️
#Publichistory #Spain #Movies
www.vscw.ca/en/node/988
I’m very pleased to have this piece about museums ant the memory of civil wars, the US and Finnish as well as the Spanish, in Conversación sobre la Historia. #🗃️ #Publichistory #Scwmuseum #Spain #CivilWar
conversacionsobrehistoria.info/2026/03/26/e...
See “These Walls, Alberto Pascual’s powerful documentary about forced Labour during the Francoist regime, here:
#🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #Scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/899
The Virtual Museum of the Spansh Civil War has just added a section on Czechoslovakia to its gallery on the Global Spanish Civil War: www.vscw.ca/index.php/en....
#🗃️ #Publichisory #Scwmuseum #Spain
En route fom Alicante to Valencia yesterday, we stopped in Xátiva and came across this striking memorial to eight men from the town who were deported to Mauthausen, six of whom died there. #🗃️ #Publichistory #Scwmuseum #Spain
I would be grateful if you could do that, Nick
Do you know anything about who owns the copyright?
Great video, Nick. Where did you get it? One of my contributors to the Virtual Museum would like to use it.
The International Federation of Transport Workers found many imaginative ways to assist the Republic during the Civil War. Even dockers in Nazi Germany contributed.
#🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #Scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/942
What can the work of a French shopkeeper and amateur filmmaker tell us about the more than 400,000 Spanish refugees who fled to France at the end of the Civil War?
#🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/941
Having written a book about the Edwin Fox, I was very sad to read this.
#NewZealand
www.1news.co.nz/2026/01/30/p...
Of course not!
Tell her to get in touch!
My talk on the Spanish Civil War seen through social history at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili is only ten days away.
I’m not sure I understand your question.
Victoria Eugenia is having a moment, largely due to the Spanish television drama Ena: www.imdb.com/title/tt2915...
Absolutely.
How did the Francoist regime deal with “wayward” girls and young women? #🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/906
The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just opened an exciting new gallery devoted to film. Check it out. #Publichistory #🗃️
#Spain #scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/849
What was the impact of the Spanish Civil War for Greece? And what were its echoes during Greece's own civil war?
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain
www.vscw.ca/en/node/857
A fascinating conversation about the impact of AI on journalism between the editors of two Canadian magazines: The Local and The Walrus. thelocal.to/fallout-from...
My interview this morning on the popular Spanish radio program, “A vivir que son dos días”. #🗃️ #Scwmuseum
cadenaser.com/audio/176380...
As the 50th anniversary of the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco approaches, let's relive one of the greatest moments in the long history of Saturday Night Live. (With Spanish subtitles)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=axBy...
The book I wrote with Boyd Cothran, The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Conncted the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914, is now out in Russian!
#🗃️ #Publichistory
azbooka.ru/books/morepl...
I am excited about speaking about the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War at this conference in Madrid next week. mircouam.com/archivos/8571
#🗃️ #Publichistory #SCWmuseum
A few days ago, the government of Spain announced the winner of the international competition for the "resignification" of Francisco Franco's the "Valley of the Fallen". The response from scholars has largely been critical.
www.eldiario.es/sociedad/res...
#Publichistory #🗃️ #SCWmuseum
What were bread bombs? And why did Francoist planes drop them on Madrid and other Republican cities? #🗃️ #Publichistory
www.vscw.ca/en/node/12