Spanish Civil War

The story of the man whose name inspired a British battalion in the Spanish Civil War Tom Mann, a pioneering figure in Britain's early labour movement In 1936, volunteer military units from all over the world journeyed to Spain to fight against Franco’s fascist rebellion.

From rural peasantry, to law, politics, the Presidency of Catalonia and the firing squad, Pete charts the life of Lluís Companys The death sentence of Lluís Companys When wrote about the , it’s no accident he focused on Catalonia.

How Esmond Romilly went from being a posh Wellington schoolboy to a fierce anti-fascist... The British aristocracy has produced a number of over the years, but few so deeply committed to the cause as Esmond Romilly.

How a song led to the overthrow of Portugal's fascist regime... At 10:55am on 24 April 1974, Paulo de Carvalho's song “E Depois do Adeus” was played on Lisbon radio.

The British Communist and scholar who died fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War"I am not just paying a conventional tribute to a dead man when I say that he was a real hero." On this day in 1936, Ralph Winston Fox was killed.

Killed on this day in 1936, Lorca remains one of the most important radical writers in history “As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.” These were the prophetic words of Federico García Lorca, the Spanish poet and playwright who was assassinated on this day in 1936 by far-right thugs near Granada.

76 years ago today the RAF bombed the German city of Dresden, killing thousands of civilians.

Today, in 1936, John Cornford was killed near the town of Lopera in the south of Spain. Children preparing for evacuation from Spain, during the Spanish Civil War, some giving the Republican salute.

Today in 1913, Jesse Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama. Two decades later, in Hitler’s Berlin, he won an Olympic 100m Gold which put a stake through the heart of Nazi racial ideology for all the world to see.

In the late 1930s, African-Americans found more equality on the front line of a foreign civil war than they could on the front row of a bus in Alabama.