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The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona. Author Forgotten Places: Barcelona&SCW. Also Iberian wildlife and landscape. Finishing now book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War " www.thespanishcivilwar.com
I want to recommend this beautiful written novel "What We Tried to Bury Grows Here" by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social Set during the Civil War, mainly in the Basque Country, intrically woven tragic stories, the history without impeding the narrative, intimate details making all so believable
Agit-prop poster from Britain. Circa 1976, top photo by Manel Armengol, Barcelona, '76. "This is why Spanish holidays are so cheap" Can't remember where I found this image.
Correction. 2022
What a photo! A young Iberian lynx outside an abandoned barn where he was born, Sierra Morena, Andalucía. By Sergio Marijuán. This camera trap image was a candidate for the 2025 Wildlife Photograph of the Year organised by the Natural History Museum of London
POUM Antifascist Militia card issued to American marxist Harry Milton. On 20 May 1937, Milton saved George Orwell's life after the writer was shot through neck by sniper on the Aragón front, by quickly stopping bleeding. In Catalan reflecting party's strong (Marxist) Catalan identity.
1937 shot by Budapest-born Kati Horna, one of the greatest photographers to work in Spain. Republican soldier on the Aragón front, shaving, metal pot I guess with water to shave below, thistle in the centre. Trench stuff piled up to the left. Brilliant composition. Shades of Vietnam.
HQ of the Catalan Business institute (Foment del Treball Nacional) on Via Leiatana taken over here by the CNT-FAI as their HQ, a heart of anarchist revolution, in the summer of 1936. Great piece of colourisation by @historiacolor on the other place from original by Margaret Michaelis.
One of Gerda Taro's early photos from the Spanish Civil War. Women in Catalan communist party (PSUC) training for militia on Barcelona beach (probably Camp de la Bota, today's Forum), August 1936.
Another exhibit from the Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War. Fund raising pin "För Spanien" Stockholm 1938. Run principally by the Swedish trade unions, the Spanish Republican aid movement was one of biggest in country's aid history and unlike Vietnam didn't involve the State
That's the different Nick Lloyd