Lt-Col Antonio Tejero, who has died aged 93, made world headlines when on February 23 1981, at the head of a force of nearly ...

The Spanish Civil War was fought between 1936 and 1939 between General Franco's nationalists and left-wing republicans. The ...

This episode traces the Spanish Civil War from the 1936 military rising to Franco’s victory in 1939, including the revolution and repression on both sides, foreign intervention, and the grinding war ...

The scholar Nathan Pinkoski, writing in The Claremont Review of Books, considers the take on the Spanish Civil War by the venerable historian of Spain, Stanley Payne. Excerpts: The Second Spanish ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Vatican cardinal beatified four martyrs of the Spanish Civil War on Saturday. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declared Francesco Cástor Sojo López ...

One historian indicates that, on the 4th of March, 1939, "a confused rising took place at Cartagena, involving both Falangist and Left groups," repressed by troops under Communist officers.1 The end ...

It’s inspiring to learn about ordinary, working people who travelled to Spain to defend democracy and tried to stop fascism' ...

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 ...

A Vatican cardinal beatified four martyrs of the Spanish Civil War on Saturday. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declared Francesco Cástor Sojo López ...