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Works on Britain, Ireland and the Spanish Civil War 

National studies:

Buchanan, Tom, Britain and the Spanish Civil War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

-- The Impact of the Spanish Civil war on Britain. War, Loss and Memory, Sussex: Suusex Academic Press, 2007.

Francis, Hywell, Miners Against Fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1984.

-- ‘“Say Nothing and Leave in the Middle of the Night”: The Spanish Civil War Revisited’, History Workshop Journal, 32, Autumn 1991 pp.69-76. 

McGarry, Fearghal, Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War, Cork: Cork University Press, 1999.

Stradling, Robert, The Irish and the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Crusades in conflict, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.

-- Wales and the Spanish Civil War: The Dragon's Dearest Cause, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004.

Regional studies:

Cooper, Mike and Parkes, Ray, We Cannot Park on Both Sides: Reading volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, Reading: Reading International Brigades Memorial Committee, 2000.

Eaton, George, Neath and the Spanish Civil War, Neath: Privately published, 1980.

Squires, M, The Aid to Spain Movement in Battersea 1936-1939, London: Elmfield Publications, 1994.

Stradling, Robert. Cardiff and the Spanish Civil War, Cardiff: Butetown History and Arts Project, 1996.

Watson, Don and Corcoran, John, An Inspiring Example: The North East of England and the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, McGuffin, 1996.

The British government's responses to the war:

Ball, S., ‘The Politics of Appeasement: The Fall of the Duchess of Atholl and the Kinross and West-Perth by-election, December 1938’, Scottish Historical Review, 187, April 1990, pp.49-85.

Buchanan, Tom, 'Edge of Darkness: British "Front-line" Diplomacy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1937', Contemporary European History, 12:3, 2003, pp.279-303.

Edwards, Jill, The British Government and the Spanish Civil War, London: Macmillan, 1979.

Mackenzie, S.P., ‘The Foreign Enlistment Act and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939’, Twentieth Century History, 10:1, 1999, pp.52-66.

Moradiellos, Enrique, ‘The Origins of British Non-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War: Anglo-Spanish Relations in early 1936’, European History Quarterly, 21:3, July 1991, pp.339-364.

-- ‘Appeasement and Non-Intervention: British policy during the Spanish Civil War’, in Peter Catterall and C.J. Morris, eds, Britain and the threat to stability in Europe, 1918-47, London: Leicester University Press, 1993, pp.94-104.

-- ‘The British Government and the Spanish Civil War’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 12:1, 1999, pp.4-13.

Stone, Glyn, ‘Britain, Non-Intervention and the Spanish Civil War’, European Studies Review, 9, 1979, pp.129-149.

The aid-Spain and labour movements:

Alpert, Michael ‘Humanitarianism and Politics in the British Response to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39’, European History Quarterly, 14:4, October 1984, pp.423-439.

Buchanan, Tom, The British Labour Movement and the Spanish Civil War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

-- ‘Britain’s Popular Front? Aid Spain and the British Labour Movement’, History Workshop Journal, 31, 1991, pp.60-72.

Errock, Heather Mary, ‘The Attitude of the Labour Party to the Spanish Civil War’, M.A. Thesis, University of Keele, 1980.

Fleay, C., and Saunders, M.L., ‘The Labour Spain Committee: Labour Party Policy and the Spanish Civil War’, The Historical Journal, 28:1, 1985, pp.187-197.

Fyrth, Jim, The Signal Was Spain, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1986.

-- ‘The Aid for Spain Movement in Britain’, in Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville eds, Dictionary of Labour Biography, London: Macmillan, 1993, pp.25-32.

-- ‘The Aid Spain Movement in Britain 1936-1939’, History Workshop Journal, 35, 1993 pp.153-164.

Mendlesohn, Farah, Quaker Relief Work in the Spanish Civil War, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

Squires, M, The Aid to Spain Movement in Battersea 1936-1939, London: Elmfield Publications, 1994.

The media:

Aldgate, Anthony, Cinema and History-British Newsreels and the Spanish Civil War, London: Scholar Press, 1979.

Shelmerdine, L.B., ‘Britons in an ‘un-British’ war: domestic newspapers and the participation of UK nationals in the Spanish Civil War’, North West Labour History, 22, 1997-1998, pp.20-47.

Popular and political opinion:

Buchanan, Tom ‘A Far Away Country Of Which We Know Nothing?’, Twentieth Century British History, 4:1, 1993, pp.1-24.

Flint, J., ‘Must God go Fascist? English Catholic Opinion and the Spanish Civil War’, Church History, 56, 1987, pp.264-274.

Greene, Thomas R., ‘The English Catholic Press and the Second Spanish Republic, 1931-1936’, Church History, 45:1, 1976 pp.70-84.

Walton, John K., ‘British Perceptions of Spain and their Impact on Attitudes to the Spanish Civil War: Some Additional Evidence’, Twentieth Century British History, 5:3, 1994, pp.283-299.

Watkins, K.W., Britain Divided: The Effect of the Spanish Civil War on British Political Opinion, London: Nelson, 1963.

 

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