BCA'37 UK - The Association for the UK Basque Children

News, Events & Reports

"Picasso Presents Gernika"

Sabino Arana Fundazioa, Bilbao
Dokumentalaren Emanaldia - Martxoak 28
Proyección Documental - 28 Marzo
Screening of the Documentary - 28 March

Intxorta honours the Gipuzkoan children of the war who were evacuated abroad

Saturday March 18, 2023. Donostia

Report and further information here …

¡Salvad a los niños!
Historia del exilio vasco en Gran Bretaña, 1937-1940

The Basque Children in Britain - Committees, colonies and concerts

by Yolanda Powell

Yolanda Powell is the daughter of a niña, Alicia Pedrero. The book is based on research and interviews undertaken from the mid 70s to the mid 80s and focuses on the difficulties facing the volunteers who had to deal with finance, colony admin and repatriation. There are interviews with Poppy Vulliamy, Ronald Thackrah, Laureana Puerta and other children, including Alicia Pedrero.

The book is only available from Amazon:
details here …

Read this Review of Yolanda's book
by Prof. Tom Buchanan, OUDCE/Kellogg College, Oxford, here …

Pictures by Maite Pinto are on display at the Guggenheim Bilbao

Maite Pinto has exhibited her work at the Guggenheim Bilbao. More information here …

Maite's pictures are available as a set of cards from our shop here …

A new SPOTLIGHT now available to view …

Painstaking and meticulous research by both Rob David and Gerald Hoare lets us now present personal information about the children at those colonies of Brampton and Ambleside.

This information has been organised into clear and easily understood spreadsheets or lists.

Click here for our SPOTLIGHT ON … Cumbria

Commemorative events for 85th Anniversary

Dedication of tree to the People of Hampshire: Basque child refugees 1937, and a tribute to the tree of Guernica planted in 1994 HCC Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey
Monday 3 April 2023, 11:00 - 12:30 Due to very limited space, this event is by invitation only.

We will produce a report after the event.

Exhibitions Live & Online

Bombs…Away!

Please visit the Peace Museum's Bombs…Away! online exhibition.
We were pleased to help with the section on the Basque children.

Bombs…Away! explores the impact of aerial bombardment against civilians during World War Two and uses The Peace Museum's unique collection to examine how peace campaigns formed in response …

Visit the exhibition at: www.bombsawayexhibition.com

Haven's East: The Lost History of Basque Child Refugees in 1930s East Anglia

A National Lottery funded project investigating the history of the Basque children at colonies in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. We were pleased to contribute to the research and development of this exhibition.

Visit the exhibition at: www.havenseast.org, read about the background to the project here …, and read this Report on Refugee week 2021 by Ed Packard

For other recently posted and older notices, click here.

Newsletter / Boletín

From the Archives

Newsletter 1, August 2003, page 1

Blue Plaque for Aston
Read the full article here …

… an article you may have missed:

The SS Habana: the journey from Bilbao and arrival in Great Britain
By Natalia Benjamin and Cliff Kirkpatrick (Naval information)

Read the full article here …

From Another Archive:

The refugees who played for Saints

Southampton Football Club

Read the full article here …