PGF Seminar 17th February 1-2pm

We will be hearing from Henry Brown (University of Oxford). Henry is a first year DPhil student specialising in the Spanish Civil War and modern Spain more broadly.  His thesis examines military cultures and identities within Spanish Republican Army and among its veterans during the Francoist dictatorship. Henry read for a BA in War Studies at KCL from 2014 to 2017 and graduated with a first class honors before undertaking an MSt in History at Oxford.  His paper will be based upon his postgraduate thesis which focused on anarchist interactions with military values and practices during the Civil War and their efforts to form a distinctly anarchist military identity.  Henry will deliver his paper entitled ‘Anarchists in Uniform: The Militarisation of Anarchist Culture during the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939)‘. 

For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

PGF Seminar 3rd February 1-2pm

We will be kicking off the first seminar of semester two with our very own Rob Granger. Rob is in the second year of his Northern Bridge funded PhD. He is researching the social, cultural and political attitudes under the late Franco dictatorship in Spain, to seek to understand how far the regime was underpinned by a culture of consent. Rob will deliver his paper entitled: Nightmares and Miracles: Franco’s Madrid, 1939 – 1975.

For more information please contact Leanne: l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk

Ramón Masats ‘Casa de Campo’, 1961