Showing posts with label Paul Preston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Preston. Show all posts

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Today: 75th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica

The Wikipedia has this article on the event. History Today offers this 2007 article by Paul Preston.
Spanish daily El País offers this article (in English).
The Basque public television EITB, here, offers inedited photos, videos, and other material (in Spanish).
Spanish public television TVE has this material on the anniversary (in Spanish).

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Remembering 23 F

Yesterday - and the days before - the media were full of remembrances of the 30th anniversary of a failed coup attempt of some militaries unhappy with the young Spanish democracy that took place on February 23, 1981; therefore its colloquial name "23 F". The daily El País even offers articles in English, here. Interestingly, a lot of the leading historians on contemporary Spanish history are British, such as e.g. Paul Preston of the LSE and Hugh Thomas.
The Wikipedia in its English verision is not really helpful on this topic but introduces the protagonists, here.