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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.
Other News, Events & Reports
Bradford Peace Museum
Our friends at the Bradford Peace Museum have been short listed for the Museums Change Live Awards 2021, in the category Best Small Museum Project. We wish them every success!
We would also remind you that their Bombs…Away! exhibition is still on line. It has a section on the Basque children. See more details below …
Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
We would like to draw your attention to this very informative archive of documents charting some of the major events in the history of the Basque Children's evacuation in 1937.
The Experience of Basque refugee children in Swansea in the 1930s
By David Morris, Archivist, West Glamorgan Archive Service
Read it here … on the web site of Archifau Cymru/Archives Wales
… and see also this YouTube presentation …
PRESS:
Spanish Civil War refugee urges Cumbria to support Afghans
Carmen Cid, 92, lives in Carlisle and left Spain when she was eight years old to come to the UK. She called for more help to be given to Afghan asylum seekers …
Talk by Carmen Kilner at the IBMT AGM
Open talk by Carmen Kilner 'The Basque Children of 1937', which will be followed by Q & A.
October 9th, 4.30 - 6pm. Southampton Civic Centre, Civic Centre Road, SO14 7LY. Comms room 3 & 4. This will be part of IBMT AGM but all are welcome to attend the talk.
The Nutmeg Podcast: "From Blitzkrieg to the Bernabeu"
Daniel Gray tells the incredible tale of the Basque refugee children exiled to Britain during the Spanish Civil War who became professional footballers.
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.
More information …
"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
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
For other recently posted and older notices, click here.
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 12, November 2009, p8
Good food and a beautiful house: the Shornells colony
by Andy Brockman
Read the full article here …
… an article you may have missed:
Researching the Basque Children by Natalia Benjamin
From Another Archive:
Basque children in Britain
From The Library - Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
Articles & Reviews
by Jeff Gale
[With grateful thanks to the Barnet Museum for their permission to publish this article]
by Natalia Benjamin and Cliff Kirkpatrick
por Natalia Benjamin y Cliff Kirkpatrick
by Sabina Fernández
Sabina Fernández