Digital History Seminar: 20th Century Spain

Digital Primary Sources

Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALBA) Archives contains information about ALBA, a database of the 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic, and a digital collection that contains records from the James Lardner Papers, the Herman Greenfield Papers, the Miriam Sigel Papers, and the Marjorie Polon Papers, all of which are housed in New York University's Tamiment Library.

Anuario Estadístico de España​

Spain's National Institute of Statistics contains digitized annual reports from 1858 to the present. These reports contain a wealth of information for social research that can be used to create data visualizations of historic trends.

Archivo Fotográfico de la Delegación de Propaganda de Madrid

This archival collection houses the photographs that were taken by the Junta de Defensa de Madrid during the Civil War. The photographs were originally used by the Republican side to denounce the war. During the Francoist dictatorship, the collection was hidden from the public and used as an instrument of political repression. 

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

The Hispanic Digital Library is the digital library of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. It provides access free of charge to thousands of digitized documents, including books printed from the 15th to the 19th century, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic newspapers and magazines and audio recordings

Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica

The Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers (BVPH), coordinated by Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, is a digital newspaper library that provides access to an extensive, varied and growing collection of historical newspapers and cultural magazines in Spanish languages. 

British Pathé Spanish Civil War Collection

British Pathé is a newsreel archive that spans the years from 1896 to 1978. The collection includes footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science and culture, and the website contains a series of specialized collections, including one on the Spanish Civil War.

History Archive for the Spanish Revolution

The History Archive for the Spanish Revolution is part of the Marxist Internet Archive, which is a non-profit website that hosts a multilingual library of the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Che Guevara, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. 

Memorial Democràtic de Catalunya

Memorial Democràtic is a public institution of the Generalitat of Catalunya that conserves the "democratic memory" of the region from 1931-1980. Of particular interest are their maps of common graves and Francoist symbols, and their photographic archive of arial bombardments during the Civil War

Magazines and War 1936-1939: Spanish Civil War and Print Culture

This website is a virtual companion to the 2007 exhibit "Magazines and War 1936-1939" at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, which examined the role of artists in Spanish Civil War magazines. 

Marx Memorial Library-Spanish Collection

The Spanish Collection held by the MML comprises the archives of the International Brigade Association (IBA), which was established in 1938 by the veterans of the British Battalion of the International Brigade following their return from Spain, archival documentation of mixed provenance that has been accumulated since 1975, and the Personal Papers of a number of International Brigaders.

Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection

The Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection at UC San Diego, is one of the largest archives of the Spanish Civil War with 13,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, posters, and manuscripts. Publications by Republicans, Falangists, Catholics, anarchists, communists, socialists, agrarian reformers, and regional political parties are all represented, as are those by Spanish exiles and partisans outside Spain. Of particular interest are the the digitized collections of Spanish Civil War Posters, Spanish Civil War News Photos, Spanish Civil War Children's Drawings, Spanish Civil War Communist EphemeraSpanish Civil War Memory Project, and Spanish Civil War Postage Stamps.

Warwick Digital Collections- Trabajadores: The Spanish Civil War through the eyes of organised labour

This collection is made up of a wide range of primary sources on the Spanish Civil War, taken from several archive collections held by the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The majority of the material - 46 physical files - is part of the archive of the British Trades Union Congress.  This contains thousands of documents on a wide range of subjects relating to the Spanish Civil War, including material on key themes such as the response of organized labour and the political left in Britain and abroad, the attitude of the British and French governments, medical aid and the care of refugees, the International Brigade, and German and Italian intervention.

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