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Nick Lloyd

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The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona. Author Forgotten Places: Barcelona&SCW. Also Iberian wildlife and landscape. Finishing now book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War " www.thespanishcivilwar.com

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Jan 9

A different way to see Barcelona! "The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War" Tues and Fri+occasssional others, 10am, 35euros/person, 4hrs+. Also private tours on the SCW and Orwell's Barcelona Moltes gràcies [email protected] to book. thespanishcivilwar.com

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 1h

The knowledge that Nick has of the era is absolutely incredible, as is his skill at communicating the complex politics of the time to a contemporary audience. A masterclass in popular history! @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

Building with a ghost sign saying “plaça of the unknown militiaman”, a remnant of the Spanish civil war which was only uncovered in 2004

A rusty tin, the kind that open with a key, held in front of a photo of international brigades at the front eating rations out of the same type of tins

Well-known to me, a photo of the Glasgow district roll of honour banner listing the names of the men who died in Spain

A box of matches produced by the CNT, the anarchist trade union

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 2h

One of the best things I’ve done in BCN is @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social tour - a real deep dive into the history of the civil war through the city streets. You get to see and handle an utterly unique collection of archive photos and objects from the time

Iconic photo of Marina Ginesta shouldering a rifle on a rooftop, shown in front of the building in Placa Catalunya she was stood on top of when it was taken

A milk label from when industries were collectivised and the anarchists were running the buses, the cinemas, catering etc. the label says “Socialised dairy industry: CNT milk”

Two postcards, one an illustration of a militiawoman with a resemblance to Marlene Dietrich, the other showing a group of men admiring the illustrations in poster form in 1930s barcelona

Famous antifascists poster of an espadrilled foot crushing the swastika

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 17m

Wah, thanks so much Katherine. Real pleasure to meet

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 23m

The dramatic Castillo de Gormaz, Soria, towering over the tiny village of Gormaz. When the castle was built by Muslim Califate of Cordoba in early C9th CE it was largest in Europe. Still huge, overlooking inmense expanse of cereal plains, cut through by green oasis of the Duero.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 18h

Love this photograph by Gerda Taro. Sailors having a right old time on board Republican battleship 'Jaime I'. Almería harbour, 1937. Galician pipes, accordion, banjo, palms. Let's imagine wild versions of A las Barricadas and Ay Carmela. Cristiano Ronaldo to the left of the accordionist?

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1d

Republican militia in Aragón on the front page of La Vanguardia, 2 October 1936. "
The victorious advance of our forces". An example of small wins sold as great victories,but the reality was something else. Photo by Agustí Centelles.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1d

Australian aid campaign for Spanish Republic. Showing of Spanish War films to raise funds. Assembly Hall, Melbourne, October 1938

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2d

Anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman addressing a meeting of the CNT-FAI, Barcelona, 18 October 1936.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure also very true

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2d

One very big difference is a very high percentage of water use (80 plus %) in Spain goes on agriculture, whereas in the UK I've just read is 1-2%...for the time being anyway

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the mythical beasts of the Iberian Peninsula. By Pucaprinthouse. How many have you seen?

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 3d

November 2023 issue of Catalan children's magazine Petit Sapiens on the Spanish Civil War.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 3d

A Little Owl (mochuelo in Spain, mussol in Catalan) kindly sent by Lucy Brzoska. It had flown down to inspect these items left by gardeners working in the Fossar de la Pedrera, Montjuïc, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona. Like a surrealist painting.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 3d

I know, mad. I'd love to what was the record

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The River Ebro flowing fast near Mora d'Ebre. They crossed it on a moonless night in July 1938, seeming a great victory, become a terrible defeat. Later they sang to it in union halls in Glasgow, exile cafes in Caracas and Toulouse, secretly at night in camp huts in Austria in Europe's dark heart.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d

Group of Austrian and German International Brigade volunteers resting in Benissa, Alicante, September 1937. From book "Voluntarios austriacos en la España republicana". Wonder what they're listening to. Erich Wolf, holding the record, later survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d

Many thanks Carlos, appreciated

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d

Bubble gum war card from USA, 1938, testifying italian bombing of La Rambla 19 August 1938, 20 killed. The series was called "To know the horrors of war is to want peace". They were collected by US kids including a dozen related to the SCW(also featured Japan invasion of China, Korea, Ethiopia,USSR)

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 6d

Very nice!

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 6d

Yummy

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 6d

Years ago was driving with Spanish friends Madrid-Almería in August across La Mancha. Was v. hot + aircon didn't work. We stopped sweaty at a little place + gratefully all ordered nice cool gazpacho manchego. Dismayed to learn gazpacho manchego is hot heavy stew of rabbit+whatnot. Delish though

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 6d

Roman tower, part of the new walls around Barcino (Barcelona) built in the 4th century CE within the context of threats to the empire from Franks, etc. Plaça dels Traginers

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 7d

Two protestors run across the ground of Nottingham Forest FC, with banner "Arms For Spain", players watching on. February 1939.
Thanks to @partizandulwich.bsky.social

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 7d

Some time ago on the tour. Anne, a woman from Copenhagen telling the group the story of her International Brigader great uncle, the famous Danish poet Gustaf Munch-Petersen, killed in Aragón in April 1938. Another great uncle, a founder of Danish Communist Party, murdered by the NKVD, Moscow in 1940

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, please