Professor Helen Graham of Royal Holloway, University of London delivers this keynote lecture on the Spanish Civil War and Transnational Mobilisation. This lecture uses the lives of five individuals to explore the significance of the Spanish Republican cause to the continental wars of social change which took place between 1936 and 1948. Professor Graham also examines what the Spanish Republican defeat of 1939 meant for all five over the long term, as they suffered physical displacement and psychological and existential estrangement. With this in mind, the talk concludes by exploring open questions about what might constitute an honest reckoning today with the history and memory of Spain, and of Europe’s dark mid-twentieth century. The lecture is introduced by Paul Preston (LSE).
The lecture was part of a two-day conference on the international history of the Spanish Civil War organised by the Reluctant Internationalists research project, in collaboration with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies at the LSE. Bringing together over thirty scholars from the UK, Europe, the US and further afield, the conference set out to explore the origins and experiences of transnational mobilisation during the conflict and the immediate post-war period.
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