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
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
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
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
My interview this morning on the popular Spanish radio program, “A vivir que son dos días”. #🗃️ #Scwmuseum
cadenaser.com/audio/176380...
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
Puerto Rico has its own history with the Spanish Civil War. Learn about it here.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #PuertoRico
www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
What a wonderful object! Vouchers like this were part of the Republican government’s loss of the monopoly on the creation of money. Learn more about this aspect of the Spanish Civil War here: www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
#🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #scwmuseum
Aerial bombing by Italian planes led Barcelona to become a “city of air raid shelters”. More than 1300 appear on the interactive map described here.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain
www.vscw.ca/en/node/698
You can enjoy Patricia Schechter's interview with my colleague Antonio Cazorla Sánchez in her fascinating podcast series Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQNG.... It is also available on Spotify and Apple.
#Publichistory #scwmuseum #🗃️ #Spain
A blank space on a wall, like the ones described here, can be eloquent.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain
www.vscw.ca/en/node/786
www.vscw.ca/en/node/270
On April 15, 1938, Francoist forces reached the Mediterranean coast, cutting Republican territory in two. It was a blow from which the Repubic never completely recovered.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/77
The latest contribution to the Open Gallery. Why an 18 year old volunteered for the Republican army in 1938 and how he ended up as a fighter pilot.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #Spain #scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/787
An opera season in Madrid in the midst of the Spanish Civil war?
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #opera #Spain
www.vscw.ca/en/node/785
This 80th anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen is the perfect moment to recall the thousands of Spanish Republicans who were sent there - and died there.
#🗃️ #Publichistory #scwmuseum #Mauthausen
www.vscw.ca/en/node/688
What does this meat can abandoned in a makeshift Francoist military position during a battle in Guadalajara in April 1938 tell us about the Civil War?
#Publichistory #Spain #🗃️ #scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
How did Spanish immigrants in the United States respond to the civil war in their country of origin?
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain
www.vscw.ca/en/node/282
Why did 6,000 international athletes gather in Barcelona in the days before the Civil War began? And what happened to them once it did?
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Olympics #Spain
www.vscw.ca/en/node/783
The bombing of Guernica became a global symbol of the brutality of war, but it was only one of many aerial bombardments of towns and cities during the Spanish Civil War. The bombing of Xátiva was another.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #Spain #scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
What did the Spanish Civil War mean for Latvia, which was ruled by the authoritarian dictatorship of Kārlis Ulmanis? Did Latvians fight in Spain? And what did Soviet rule, and its end, mean for how the conflict has been remembered?
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain #Latvia
www.vscw.ca/en/node/776
Was the Spanish Civil War the first media war?
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain
www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
Check out this and the other objects in the Open Gallery.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain
Read more about this stunning stained glass window in the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War.
#Publichistory 🗃️ #scwmuseum
www.vscw.ca/en/node/340