A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay. The 15-strong ...

Smithsonian Folkways is re-releasing its classic catalog of songs about the Spanish Civil War. Smithsonian Folkways Dinner at folk musician Tom Glazer's house usually ended with a singalong in ...

Making use of resources in Spanish and Italian hitherto largely overlooked by writers on the subject, defense analyst Candil, a former Spanish armor officer, has produced the first book-length ...

Tensions had been building for decades. Economic hardship, political unrest, and growing inequality had gradually weakened Spain’s government. In 1931, the Second Republic was declared, bringing ...

At the Cuelgamuros Valley mausoleum, which served as Franco's tomb until 2019 and where more than 30,000 fighters from both sides of the Civil War are buried, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain ...

The British government did not want the Spanish Civil War to escalate into a Europe-wide conflict and so signed up to the Non-Intervention Committee. But for some in the British political ...