Our Activities
News & Events 2009
3rd October 2009
The 1st BC'37A UK Annual Lecture
Kensington and Chelsea Library Meeting Room
The inaugural lecture was given by Dr Tom Buchanan on:
"The Basque Refugee Children in Britain 1937-1939: Personal Memory and Public History"
4th July 2009
IBMT Memorial Day
Held at the monument Jubilee Gardens, London SE1 8NY
5th June 2009
Ormsby Hall, Middlesborough
Talk by Natalia Benjamin
21st May 2009
Overton Grange School, Sutton
Talk (for students) by Carmen Kilner
12th May 2009
University of the Third Age, Ulverston
Talk by Natalia Benjamin
1st - 3rd April 2009
Coming home? Conflict and return migration in twentieth century
An International conference hosted by the Centre for Transnational Studies, Department of Modern Languages, University of Southampton, and supported by the AHRC
More information …30th and 31st March 2009
"The Guernica Children"
Shown on The History Channel
28 March 2009
"Los Ninos de Guernica"
First television showing in Spain of this award-winning documentary film, screened in the prestigious La Noche Tematica slot on TVE La 2
26th March 2009
Corona Society, Oxford
Talk by Natalia Benjamin
25th March 2009
Ikastola Urrkiola (School), Gipuzkoa, San Sebastian
Illustrated talk by Carmen Kilner and Manuel Moreno
24th March 2009
Acto de Encuentro con BC'37A UK
Salón de Trono, Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, San Sebastian
Proyección "Los Ninos de Guernica" y intervenciónes de Carmen Kilner y Manuel Moreno
Press reports in Spanish and Basque:
Noticias de Gipuzkoa (22nd March) Noticias de Gipuzkoa (25th March) Noticias de Gipuzkoa (26th March) Diario Vasco Announcement of event 21st March Diario Vasco Report 25th March Diario Vasco Letter 26th March Berria 25th March (Basque)17th March 2009
Instituto Bekobenta (School), Markina, Bizkaia
Illustrated talk by Carmen Kilner
Local Paper report & pictures16th March 2009
Instituto de Elgoibar (School), Elgoibar, Gipuzkoa
Showing of "Los Ninos de Guernica" and an illustrated talk by Carmen Kilner
Article in Barren14th March 2009
International Brigade Memorial Trust Day
Held at the Imperial War Museum
11.00 Remembering Bob Doyle
14.30 Len Crome Memorial Lecture
Dr Francisco Romero Salvador
8th March 2009
"The Guernica children"
Showing of the film by Steve Bowles
At the Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Square, London WC1, by The London Socialist Film Coop
Further details …21st February 2009
Annual General Meeting & Members' Lunch
30th January 2009
"Echoes of Spain"
Book launch at the Colegio Español Cañada Blanch, Portobello, London