Spanish Civil War in 100 Objects

Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Trent University, Canada. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War: Memory and the Digital in Contested Histories (2018), Franco: The Biography of the Myth (2013) and Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco’s Spain (2009).Adrian Shubert is University Professor of History at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is the author of A Social History of Modern Spain, 1800-1990 (1990) and Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight (2001) and the co-editor, along with José Alvarez Junco, of The History of Modern Spain (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). His awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Killam Research Fellowship, and being named a Commander of the Order of Civil Merit by King Juan Carlos.

• Editors’ IntroductionPart 1 - The War1. Dragon Rapide Airplane, July 19362. Queipo de Llano’s microphone, July 19363. Button of the Great Orient Masonic Order, July 19364. “The Sea Must Be” school project, July 19365. The Pilatos Balcony, July 19366. Tiles before a firing squad, Summer 19367. A plough, Summer 19368. Report on the revolutionary movement in Barcelona (film), Summer 1936 9. Protective bracelet for Americans, August 1936 10. Piano stool, August 1936 11. San Simón Island, Summer 193612. Mujeres weekly magazine, 193613. The lost tomb of Federico García Lorca, August 193614. Betty Boop poster, August 193615. Rosary, Autumn 193616. “Stop bullet!” charm, Autumn 193617. International Brigades ID card, September 1936 18. T-26 tank, October 193619. Hall of the Valencia Silk Exchange, November 1936 20. 0.303 cartridge, November 193621. Enigma machine, November 193622. Urinal, November 193623. Cemetery of the Martyrs, November/December 1936 24. Norman Bethune’s shoulder patch, December 193625. The bowl of a hash pipe, 1936-193726. Bookmobile for the front, 193727. Literacy primers, 193728. Record with Republican songs,1937 29. Leica camera, febrero 193730. “The Littlest One of All”, February 193731. Tobacco, 193732. 25 Cent note from Granollers, 193733. Gas mask, 193734. Sima de Jinánar (Grand Canary Island), 193735. Child’s drawing of “The bombing attack on the queue for milk”, 193736. Dog tag, 193737. The Tree of Guernica, April 193738. SS Habana, May 193739. Diary of a Galician soldier, May 193740. Grenade from the Fifth Regiment, July 193741. Certificate of Service in the Irish Brigade, June 193742. Letter to Franco, July 193743. The Spanish Earth (film), July 193744. Joint Letter of the Spanish Bishops, August 193745. Cologne bottle, August 193746. Graves of Spanish children, August 1937/May 1938 47. Filing cabinets of the Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica, Summer 193748. Photograph of wet nurses, August 1937 49. Letter to a wartime pen pal, October 1937 50. Italian oath, November 1937 51. Militia woman’s boiler suit, November 1937 52. Tether, December 193753. A soldier’s Christmas money, January 1938 54. School notebook, January 1938 55. White Aid credentials, April 193856. “Letters for a Third Catalonia”, May 1938 57. Defenders of the faith,193858. Fossilized bread, July 1938 59. Photos from the beach, July 1938 60. Submarine postage stamps, August 1938 61. M1915/16 Italian helmet, Autumn 193862. Bread bombs, October 193863. Laxatives, October 193864. “Psycho-technical” prison cell, 1938-193965. Zinc sheet, Castuera concentration camp, March 1939/March 1940 66. Advertisement from the Gurs concentration camp, April 1939 Part 2 - The Franco Dictatorship67. Sketch of the shared grave of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, April 193968. Monument to the drowned of the Castillo de Olite, July 193969. Julia Conesa’s death row letter, agosto 193970. Frame made by a member of the POUM who had been condemned to death, December 193971. Lavacolla airport, 194072. Plates and cake tins with false bottoms, 1939-4573. Monument to the “Oath of the Yellow Plain”, July 194074. “Concentration camp sketchbook”, 194475. Ration coupons, 194476. The Flag at Mauthausen, 194577. “Cidade da Selva” guerrilla camp,194678. German underwater mines,194779. Key from a crate used to transfer human remains to the Valley of the Fallen, April 195980. En el balcón vacío (film), 196281. Mourir a Madrid (film), 196382. Franco, ese hombre (film), 196483. María Moliner’s Dictionary, 196684. Debod gardens and temple, 197285. Diary of a “mole”, 1976Part 3 - Democracy86. La vieja memoria (film), 197787. Statue of Franco, 197888. Three monuments in Punta Herminia, 199489. Land and Freedom (film), 199590. Monument to Alexandre Bóveda, 199691. Priaranza mass grave, 200092. The Fingerprint memorial of the Belt of Iron, 200593. Plaque for the Paseo de los Canadienses, Málaga, 200694. Casares Quiroga House and Museum, 200795. The void of Saturrarán prison, 200796. Libertad Fernández’s typewriter, 201197. Dr. Uriel (comic book), 201398. La Brigada Lincoln (graphic novel),201899. Antoni Campañà’s photographs, 2018100. Pazo de Meirás country houseNotes on ContributorsIndex

A unique presentation of the history of the Spanish Civil War using images and descriptions of artifacts from the time. An important contribution to both the history of the war and public history and material culture.