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Nick Lloyd

@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

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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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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 7h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Yes, please

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1d

Who would not like to be striding down this path now heading for a cool glass of cider and a plate of something.... Facing you the Central Massif of the Picos de Europa. Below, the village of Sotres in Cabrales with its famed smelly cheese. Asturias. Image: Mick Stephenson, Wiki

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1d

Well spotted! Didn't know that

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1d

The last paragraph in the narrative section of Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. So powerful, brilliant and prophetic, ending with "... all sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs."

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2d

Mural homage to Irish International Brigader Bob Doyle, Dublin. Since painted over, but now plaque nearby Doyle was captured during Aragón offensive+spent hellish 11 months in San Pedro de Cardeña concentration camp before being released. I recommend his autobiography Brigadista

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 3d

Another item from the Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War. 5-cent Barcelona bus ticket from successfully collectivised bus services of anarchist CNT trade union. Public transport was collectivised until the city fell in January 1939. Coincidence surely, but today's buses are black and red

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 3d

Almonds in flower by Santiago Rusiñol. I think painted in Mallorca around 1900.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 4d

This morning on La Rambla, the yearly floral decorations by the guild of florists.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 4d

Countryman usually means someone from the same country not the countryside

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 4d

Cable Street battle, Jewish London East End #OnThisDay 4 Oct 1936 with banner explicitly adapting antifascist slogan of defence of Madrid "NO PASARÁN." They shall not pass. Remember Olympia refers to 1934 British Union of Fascists meeting where they set on antifascist protesters

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 4d

Think I've seen that in the library. Thanks

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 4d

Classic poster ‘Les milicies us necessiten!’ (‘The militias need you!’). 3 flags (Catalan, Anarchist, Communist) are flying in the autumn of 1936 calling for anti-fascist unity. Artist Cristobal Arteche based woman on Marlene Dietrich, encouraging / shaming men to join up

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 4d

All that was Barcelona in 1847. Walls, bastions and the citadel completely intact, repressing and constraining the city, making it the densest I think in Europe housing for 200,000 people competing with factories. Outside, only farmland under military jurisdiction.
Guia Cicerone

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d

Many thanks!!

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d

A favourite spot in Montjuïc. The mock Catalan masia (farmhouse) built for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition with its restored vegetable garden and orchard.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d

Inside Hotel Gastronomic No. 1 (Hotel Ritz, now the Palace), in 1936. The most luxurious hotel and restaurant in Barcelona was collectivised by the Ritz workers (CNT+UGT) and turned into this workers canteen still served by tuxedoed waiters.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d

Si, Carlos, se ve que ha habido un cataclismo geográfico en mi cabeza ... Lo borro. Muchas gracias

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, maybe. Peasant farmer?

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 6d

One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 6d

No, can't be. it's Plaça Catalunya, 700km away

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Dusty Nicol @dustynicol.bsky.social · 7d

I’m quoting from memory my mother’s words:
“Many of the peasants who volunteered for the militias did not know what the word fascism meant. They just knew that men they respected - men like my father - told them it was an evil force that had to be stopped. And so they reported for their training…”

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 7d

That's a Great quote Dusty

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