Greetings from Aragón. Figs and grapes from friend's garden.

French issued version of People's Olympiad poster, Barcelona's 1936 antifascist, anti-racist response to the Nazi Olympics, with instructions for sportsman and women to participate and tourists to travel to watch the games. Never seen this version before!

Anarchist Garcia Oliver column, Via Laietana, about to leave for the Aragón front, 28 August 1936. Original photo by Carlos Pérez de Rozas. Beautifully colourised by Julius Backmaan (Instgrm).

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El 1 de septiembre de 1936 la miliciana anarquista Pepita Laguarda Batet moría en combate cerca de Huesca, en el frente de Aragón. Nacida en l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, militante de la CNT y dependienta en una bacaladeria en el barrio de Hostafrancs de Barcelona, tenia solamente

I love these weird limestone towers known as torrellones in Aragón. This one near Binefar yesterday on drive home to Barcelona, feeling a world away.

Memorialisation of the 1937 destruction of Gernika by the Condor Legion with support of Franco.

Information kiosk of the CNT / FAI on la Rambla de Canaletes (top part) , 1937. 📷 Carlos Pérez de Rozas. Via Històries de Barcelona. Must try and locate this.

Woodcuts (1938) by Serbian artist Đorđe Andrejević Kun depicting the war in Spain where he fought with the International Brigades, one of which was turned into a Yugoslavian stamp. Thanks to Vatroslav Jarni en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%…

Abandoned train line. San Esteban de Gormaz, Soria in August heat. 1000s of kilometres of lines lost in 20th century, many now cycling+walking routes, others like this, closed in 1995. A symbol of la España Vacía/da (Empty/ied Spain) as tragedy of depopulating hinterland called

One of Gerda Taro's early photos from the Spanish Civil War. Women in Catalan communist party (PSUC) training for militia on Barcelona beach (probably Camp de la Bota, today's Forum), August 1936.

Spotted this morning this remains of the tram line on La Rambla. The line stopped running in 1961.

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Children's drawings made in Barcelona during the Civil War found last year in a box of 1000 drawings at the Arxiu Històric de Barcelona and displayed in an exhibition. Note Popeye, a highly popular figure as a proletarian hero in 1930s Barcelona, member of anarchist CNT

I've always loved this poster "The bear of Madrid will destroy fascism". If you didn't know the bear feeding in a strawberry tree is the symbol of Madrid. By Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid. 1936? Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) madroño in Spanish, no relation to strawberries

Sense of time and place in this shot by Jewish Austrian photographer Margaret Michaelis. Arrival of British Medical Unit at Portbou on Spanish Repub border. Last week 29 August 1936, apparently 5am in the morning. En route for Grañen on Aragón front + then near Jarama + elsewhere

Ocell, one of the most beautiful words in Catalan. The O is an U in standard. The ugly pájaro in Spanish, Bird in English. Txori in Basque is nice. Ocell wins It.

Re-imagining Picasso's Guernica. Zumaia, 60km west of Gernika.

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

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.