Before beginning to read off his prepared lecture notes, Vicente Sánchez-Biosca issued an unconventional warning to his audience. “Because this is translated, I may miss certain nuances in the ...

The martyrs to be beatified in the Seville cathedral on Nov. 18 include 10 priests, one seminarian and nine laypeople. All of them were killed out of hatred for the faith in 1936. Archbishop José ...

A small country on the edge of Europe faces a ruthless attack. It staves off the initial assault. With the help of a major outside power, it defends itself with... While much attention is being paid ...

A good review of the book on the Spanish Civil War by renowned military historian Anthony Beevor, which was later republished as The battle for Spain. Originally published in 1982, this work has ...

The artwork depicts the bombing of a Basque village in 1937. Now, the relocation debate is raising questions about how to ...

MADRID, June 12 (Reuters) - Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government ...

Spanish government researchers said Sunday they had identified 357 foreign fighters who went missing during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the conflict that foreshadowed World War II. Subscribe to ...

An exhibition commemorating eleven young men from Waterford who answered the call in 1936 to fight against fascism and to defend a democratically elected government in Spain was opened recently in the ...

What caused Spain's military to turn against the country's civilian government in 1936?