The Colonies
Faringdon, OXFORDSHIRE - 'Basque House', Buscot Park, Eaton Hastings
Short notes
- Poppy Vulliamy, of the Basque Children's Committee, had to take "60 of the most difficult boys" under her personal care.
- Poppy Vulliamy asked Walter Leonard, a German-Jewish hotel manager she had met in Spain, to take charge of the colony at Eaton Hastings.
Articles concerning this colony
Una introducción a Spring in Eaton Hastings — por Paul Tod, traducción por MDL Power
An introduction to Spring in Eaton Hastings — by Paul Tod
Los exiliados de Eaton Hastings — por Martin Murphy
The Exiles of Eaton Hastings — by Martin Murphy
Spanish Boy Refugees and Adult Exiles at Buscot Park — A presentation, consisting of illustrated slides, by Roger Vlitos, Curator and Archivist of the Faringdon Collection. It is shown on our website by kind permission of Lord Faringdon.
El poema La muerte de un niño. — by Luis Cernuda
Newsletter items concerning this colony
Newsletter No. 2, pages 4 & 5 — The Exiles of Eaton Hastings
Newsletter No. 5, pages 5 & 6 — In a countrychurchyard annexe
Newsletter No. 11, pages 11 & 12 — In a countrychurchyard annexe
Links to external sites concerning this colony
Buscot Park: Basque and Spanish Exiles
Basque House, Eaton Hastings, Buscot and Coleshill Estates
BCA'37 UK papers at the Southampton Archives
Contemporary newspaper extracts and reports about this colony
View the extracts, curated by Gaizka Garamendi, by newspaper title or by year, or both.
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