Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regime’s supporters and its opponents, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are pictures that tell you a lot more than the thousand words they are proverbially said to be worth.

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited a Francoist mausoleum outside Madrid on Thursday to learn about the exhumation of 160 civil war victims, whose remains were claimed by ...

Francisco Franco at a sailing regatta in the bay of La Concha in San Sebastián. The even was later broadcast in NO-DO 1028A. Fondo Marín-Kutxa Fototeka, CC BY-SA The first ever film was shown at the ...

Some four months after being asked to do so by the Spanish parliament, the Socialist Party (PSOP) government of Prime Minister Jose Ruis Rodriguez Zapatero has begun removing symbols of the Franco ...

A new Royal Decree in Spain paves the way for the creation of a state catalogue of Francoist symbols and vestiges**,** destined to be removed or redefined. The Minister of Territorial Policy and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In 1942, the priest and musicologist Higini Anglès was appointed director of the Instituto Español de Musicología (IEM) by the newly ...

On Aug. 5, 1939, just four months after the Spanish Civil War came to an end, the bullets of a Francoist firing squad killing more than 50 prisoners could be heard in what’s now the Almudena Cemetery ...

Unlike Luis Bunuel, whose works were banned in Spain, Berlanga was never overtly political. Instead he challenged the regime by holding up a mirror to Spanish society, exposing the delusions, ...