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Our recent Twitter activity / La actividad reciente de Twitter
As you are probably aware, we have two Twitter accounts: Ed Packard has been running the UK account since 2017.
Como probablemente sabréis, tenemos dos Twitter: La edición de Euskadi fue creada por Gaizka Garamendi en 2020.
More information here …
Más información aquí
Prestigious Award for Natalia Benjamin
We are delighted that Natalia Benjamin will soon receive an Honorary Doctorate from Oxford Brookes
University for her important work on the testimony and historical memory of refugees, which is
recognised as being of international importance.
We will give more details as they become available.
BCA'37 UK Essay Prizes 2021
We invite submissions for the The 2021 Natalia Benjamin Prize for English speakers and for El Premio BCA'37 UK, 2021 for Spanish and Basque speakers. Closing date midnight, 30 September 2021.
More information – Mas información – Informazio gehiago
Other News, Events & Reports
PRESS:El Mundo. Mayo 23 2021
"How to evacuate 4000children in three weeks, under bombing in the Civil War with your government against it."
By Josean Izarra
"Como evacuar a 4000 niños en tres semanas, bajo bombardeo de la Guerra Civil y con tu gobierno en contra."
Por Josean Izarra.
Read the article here …
Refugee Week 2021: Talking to Chelmsford Amnesty International about the Basque Refugee Children
Read the report here by Edward Packard
It contains links to the video-talk and Havens East project.
[See also the next item about the National Archives film for Refugee Week 2021.]
Basque child refugees: untold stories from the National Archives
To mark Refugee Week 2021, the National Archives have produced a short film about the Basque children. It can be viewed on YouTube via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zf80IP8x0c
Update on "Crowd Pledging"
Project for the publication in English of Gregorio Arrien’s ¡Salvad a Los Niños! /
Save the children! The History of the Basque Exile to Great Britain 1937 - 1940.
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"Thank you" to the people who have already made pledges to support this project. I am pleased to say that we are a quarter of the way there! Please consider making a pledge, the larger the better of course. In pledging a donation to fund this project you must not send money — just make a pledge by contacting me at simonmartinez1937@yahoo.com
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS — on now
Bombs…Away!
Please visit the Peace Museum's new Bombs…Away! online exhibition.
We were pleased to help with the section on the Basque children.
Bombs…Away! explores the impact of aerial bombardment against civilians during World War Two and uses The Peace Museum's unique collection to examine how peace campaigns formed in response …
Visit the exhibition at: www.bombsawayexhibition.com
Haven's East: The Lost History of Basque Child Refugees in 1930s East Anglia
A National Lottery funded project investigating the history of the Basque children at colonies in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. We were pleased to contribute to the research and development of this exhibition.
Visit the exhibition at: www.havenseast.org, read about the background to the project here …, and read this Report on Refugee week 2021 by Ed Packard
PRESS:When children fleeing the Spanish Civil War came to Caerleon
"Twenty years ago a woman from Caerleon, one of the last links between South Wales and the Spanish Civil War, died. Here we revisit her fascinating story as told on 22 May 2001 by then Argus writer Mike Buckingham."
From the South Wales Argus. Read it here …
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Welcome
In 1937, during the Spanish civil war, almost 4,000 children were evacuated to the UK from Bilbao. Read more …
At first they stayed in a camp at Stoneham and later in colonies throughout the UK. Read more …
We want to remember and preserve the story of these niños de la guerra in their rightful context. Read more …
Newsletter / Boletín
From the Archives
Newsletter 7, April 2007, p5
Further honour for Leah Manning
by Ron Bill
… Dame Leah Manning … continues to be commemorated … In 1998 a new building at Cambridge Regional College was named after her …
Read the full article here …… an article you may have missed:
A haven for refugees and an ambulance: Wandsworth's response to the Spanish Civil War
Article by Neil Robson, with acknowledgements to the publisher:
The Wandsworth Historical Society
From Another Archive:
Eleanor's Basque Children
The story of Kerman Mirena Iriondo and Eleanor Roosevelt
Blog article by Vince Juaristi
Articles & Reviews
by Natalia Benjamin and Cliff Kirkpatrick
por Natalia Benjamin y Cliff Kirkpatrick
by Sabina Fernández
Sabina Fernández