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SPOTLIGHT ON …
We are starting an occasional series of articles that shine a spotlight on a particular aspect of interest: bringing together existing articles from the website'sp Colonies, Articles and Printed newsletter sections, and sometimes including new material.
They will be announced on the home page main section and can later be found in the home page left hand menu as SPOTLIGHT ON …
We start with SPOTLIGHT ON EATON HASTINGS. You can find it here.
Prestigious Award for Natalia Benjamin
We are delighted that Natalia Benjamin will soon receive an Honorary Doctorate from Oxford Brookes
University for her important work on the testimony and historical memory of refugees, which is
recognised as being of international importance.
We will give more details as they become available.
BCA'37 UK Essay Prizes 2021
We invite submissions for the The 2021 Natalia Benjamin Prize for English speakers and for El Premio BCA'37 UK, 2021 for Spanish and Basque speakers. Closing date midnight, 30 September 2021.
More information – Mas información – Informazio gehiago
COVID-19
Please read the implications of the situation to our activites here …
Other News, Events & Reports
Refugee Week 2021: We Cannot Walk Alone
Online event: Haven's East: The Lost History of Basque Child Refugees in 1930s East Anglia
On Thursday 17th June 2021, Dr Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Ed Packard (University of Suffolk) will tell the incredible but little known story of the child refugees who came to East Anglia during the Spanish Civil War …
The Spanish Civil War in the Basque town of Barakaldo
Eleven Months of Resistance
This book is specifically a history of the Spanish Civil War centred in an interesting industrial area of the Basque Country and beyond. It is the background of many of the nearly 4,000 children who came to England as refugees in May 1937 …
*** Price reduction ***
More details & how to purchase: visit our shop here …
PRESS:Conmemoración del / Commemoration of Gernika"
Domingo 25 de abril como parte de su conmemoración del bombardeo de Gernika, Deia publicó los siguientes dos artículos sobre la evacuación al Reino Unido. Léelo aquí …
Sunday 25th April, as part of its commemoration of the bombing of Gernika the basque newspaper Deia published the following two articles about the evacuation to the UK.(In Spanish) Read it here …
Simon Martinez's request for "Crowd Pledging"
Save the Children!
The history of the Basque Exile in Greta Britain 1937 – 1940
Gregorio Arrien
Gregorio Arrien has published three books based on his research about the children.
Gregorio died in 2018 and, until now, his work has only been published in Spanish.
Simon Martinez, with the BCA and other partners, is making an English edition happen.
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BCA'37 UK & BCA'37UK-Euskadi.
BCA'37UK-Euskadi with the help of the Basque Government through Gogora the Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights, are pleased to present two important books that tell of and remember the evacuation and stay of the children in the UK. More information and how to get copies press …
BCA'37UK-Euskadi con la ayuda del Gobierno Vasco a través de Gogora el Instituto de Memoria, Convivencia y Derechos Humanos, se complace en presentar dos libros importantes que narran y recuerdan la evacuación y estancia de los niños en el Reino Unido expedición. Para obtener más información y cómo obtener sus copias presione aquí …
PRESS:Solo Serán Tres Meses
On Sunday 7th March El Correo published this article by Julio Arrieta on "Solo Serán Tres Meses", the Spanish Translation of Adrian Bell's "Only for Three Months". [Acknowledgements to El Correo for this article. More information above under Association Notices]
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Welcome
In 1937, during the Spanish civil war, almost 4,000 children were evacuated to the UK from Bilbao. Read more …
At first they stayed in a camp at Stoneham and later in colonies throughout the UK. Read more …
We want to remember and preserve the story of these niños de la guerra in their rightful context. Read more …
Newsletter / Boletín
From the Archives
Newsletter 4, Oct 2005, p5
Scouts and the Basque children
by Tom Webb
… the Scouts and Guides were among the countless volunteers who set up and assisted at [North Stoneham] …
Read the full article here …… an article you may have missed:
Preserving the past
for the future
by Karen Robson, Head of Archives, University of Southampton
From Another Archive:
Leicester's refuge for Basque children from the Spanish Civil War
"On Tuesday 6th July 1937 a huge crowd of Leicester people waited outside the Leicester Central Station to welcome the Basque children refugees, who are to stay at Evington Hall …"
Article by Richard Graves
(Leicestershire Historian
Vol. 52 (2016) & Vol. 53 (2017))
[Reproduced with acknowledgements and permission of the author and Leicestershire Historian.]
Articles & Reviews
por Paul Tod, traducción por MDL Power
by Paul Tod
por Martin Murphy
by Martin Murphy
by Luis Cernuda
by Simon Martinez
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