Basque Children of '37 Association UK

Reference Material

Articles & Reviews of Interest

"El Hombre de la Guerra por Ramiro Pinilla"
Reseña por Bernardo Fernández (ex cónsul español en Londres)

"The Man of War by Ramiro Pinilla"
Review by Bernardo Fernández (Former Spanish Consul in London) — translation by MDL Power

"Churchill's Spaniards by Sean Scullion"
Review by Simon Martinez

"The Basque Child Refugees in the UK"
Zine produced by a group of undergraduate students at Leeds University in 2021

"Report on the exhibition Sea of Shadows, Instituto Cervantes Manchester on 14th June"
Report by Carmen Kilner

"Cumbria's Basque children become a focal point of residential course"
Report by Rob David on the course 'A Welcome in the Hills'

"No Praise can be too High — The Forgotten Labour of the Basque Señoritas"
Dissertation of Nerea Wachter Galindo

"In the Wings"
Chapter from the autobiography of the late Henry Brinton

"En tierras lejanas"
por Marisa Iturriza

"In Distant Lands"
by Marisa Iturriza — translation by MDL Power

"Recollections of The Basque Children's Camp at North Stoneham Eastleigh"
A transcript of this article by Amador Diaz by Gerald Hoare

"Report and Thank Yous for the memorial to the Basque Children at Town Quay Park, Southampton, Saturday 22 October 2022"
by Simon Martinez

"Reportaje y agradecimiento por el memorial a los niños vascos en Town Quay Park, Southampton, sábado 22 octubre 2022"
por Simón Martínez

"A poem 'To a flag made by a refugee child' by Jack M'Quoid"
Backround article by Simon Martinez

"The Basque Children in Great Britain"
by Natalia Benjamin [More details and the background to this article can be found here]

"Los niños vascos en Gran Bretaña"
por Natalia Benjamin [Más detalles y los antecedentes de este artículo se pueden encontrar aquí]

"Ardmore House, Manor Road, Guildford"
by Emilia Chadwick, daughter of Rodolfo Vela Santos

"Re-tracing Our History"
by James Chadwick

"Bilbao to Caerleon - The Basque Child Refugees of 1937"
by Gail Giles

"The Basque Children's Camp"
by Stuart Allen

"A report of the inauguration of the exhibition "The children of '37 in the United Kingdom""
by Christopher Evans

"Reportaje de la inauguración de la exposición "Los niños del '37 en el Reino Unido""
por Christopher Evans

"Reynolds News 1937: 'The Fascists Write to the Refugees'"
Article from Twitter translated by MDL Power

"Two chapters relating to the Basque Children from the book 'Sestao, 1800-1985'"
by Charles Rivera (in Spanish)

"Basque Refugees at Nazareth"
©The Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth

"New Monument in Santurzi to remember children evacuated in 1937"

"Nuevo Monumento en Santurce para recordar a los niños evacuados en 1937"

"'A Little Basque' - Carmen Cid at the Brampton 'colony'"
Account compiled by Rob David from the testimony of Carmen Cid in September 2021

"'Let politics and differences be forgotten: 'The Little Basques in Cumbria' 1937-39
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society: Series 3, Vol. 19 (2019), 231-250"
by Dr Rob David [with permission of the Society to publish this article]

"A Home of Smiles - Rusthall's Beacon"
by Anne Krisman Goldstein

"The Basque Children in Arkley - 1937-42"
by Jeff Gale [With grateful thanks to the Barnet Museum for their permission to publish this article]

"The SS Habana: the journey from Bilbao and arrival in Great Britain"
by Natalia Benjamin and Cliff Kirkpatrick

"El vapor 'Habana': el viaje desde Bilbao y la llegada a Gran Bretaña"
por Natalia Benjamin y Cliff Kirkpatrick

"Ricardo Fernández Orsi, Captain of the SS Habana"
by Sabina Fernández

"Ricardo Fernández Orsi,Capitán del SS Habana"
Sabina Fernández

"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

"The Basque Children's Colony, The Old Hospital, Park Lodge Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire"
by Simon Martinez
Photos also here

"El primer exilio de los vascos, 1936-1939"
por Jesús J. Alonso Carballés

"The first exile of the Basques, 1936-1939"
by Jesús J. Alonso Carballés, translated by MDL Power

"Basque Children in Colne, Lancashire"
by Susan Brown

"Frida Stewart and the Basque Children"
by Angela Jackson

"Frida Stuart y los Niños Vascos"
por Angela Jackson, traducido por MDL Power

"A history of Edurne Cid Santibañes, her brother José Luis and sister Carmen"
by Iain Monaghan
(Edurne’s son)

"Mi padre Blas Armando Hernando Guirles y mi tia Mª Angeles Hernando Guirles niños de la guerra en Inglaterra"
por Javier Hernando Ortega

"My father Blas Armando Guirles and my aunt Ma Angeles Hernando Guirles 'niños de la guerra' (war children) in England."
by Javier Hernando Ortega, translation by Lita Power

"Unknown, unseen but not forgotten"
by Gerald Hoare

"Desconocida, invisible pero no olvidada"
por Gerald Hoare, traducido por Maria Dolores Power

"De Donosti a Caerleon, pasando por Wickham Market"
por José Luis Duo Goldaracena

"From Donostia (San Sebastián) to Caerleon via Wickham Market'"
by José Luis Duo, translation by Maria Dolores Power

"The Basque Children Refugees in Hereford 1937 - A Family History"
by Maria Dolores Power

"Los Niños Vascos Refugiados en Hereford 1937 – Una Historia Familiar"
por Maria Dolores Power

"The 'Basques' in Britain: An examination of refugee children's agency and identity formation through self-produced journals Amistad and Cambria House Journal"
by Joshua James Burns

"Researching and remembering the Basque refugee children of 1937 in the Special Collections"
by Dr Edward Packard

"The Exiles of Eaton Hastings"
by Martin Murphy

"Basque Child Refugees at the Greenfield House Catholic Orphanage, Billinge"
sent by Begoñia Abiega

"The Basque Children - The End of the Spanish Civil War and the Beginning of Exile for the Niños"
by Peter Anderson

"The 'Red Duchess' - Katharine, Duchess of Atholl"
by Mike Levy

"El exilio vasco en Gran Bretaña, 1937-1940"
by Gregorio Arrien

"Las últimas andereños del exilio inglés"
by Gregorio Arrien [English translation here]

"An Unexpected Journey: The Reception, Treatment, and Government and Media Response to Spanish Refugees in Britain in 1937"
by Adrian Blazquez Lindblad
This undergraduate dissertation was submitted to us for publication on our website by Adrian Blazquez Lindblad - who then went on to be awarded a first class degree.

"Fr Gregorio Arrien"
by Carmen Kilner

"A journey to Bilbao"
by John Simmons

"Preserving the past for the future"
by Karen Robson, Head of Archives, University of Southampton

"Archives are now housed at the University of Southampton"
by Carmen Kilner

"The Basque Refugee Children in Oxfordshire during the Spanish Civil War: Politically Charged Project or Humanitarian Endeavour?"
by Meirian Jump
[Published in Oxoniensia, Vol LLXXII, 2007]

"4,000 Basque Child Refugees: Britain’s Response to the Victims of the Spanish Civil War"
by Isabella Brown
An undergraduate dissertation submitted to the Department of History - Durham University and published with the permission of the author and of the University.
[Isabella is now a graduate - our congratulations!]

"Photo Article: "Basque Children of ’37""
by Gianluca Urdiroz Agati

"La Guerra Civil en Barakaldo - Once Meses de Resistencia
(The Civil War in Barakaldo – Eleven Months of Resistance)
por (by) Koldobika López Grandoso, 2a edición, Ediciones Beta"
Review by María Dolores Power

"The many Histories of the Basque Refugee Children in Britain"
Article by Dr Edward Packard
- published in the online journal 'Childhood Remixed' May 2018

"The Basque Children in Bradford and Keighley - The Basque Children in Bradford and Keighley"
Review by Simon Martinez

"The Silence of Others - A film by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Baha"
Review by Simon Martinez

"The Repatriation of the Basque Children"
Article by Gerald Hoare and Simon Martinez

"Eduardo Castro Gómez, y otros niños "vascos" exiliados al Reino Unido. Guerra Civil española."
Article by José María López-Dafonte Sanjuán

"The Thornycroft Family and the Basque Refugee children"
Article by Anna Cordon

"Leicester's refuge for Basque children from the Spanish Civil War"
Article by Richard Graves (Leicestershire Historian, Vol. 52 (2016) & Vol. 53 (2017))

"John Simmons' Spanish Crossings"
Review by Ed Packard

"A haven for refugees and an ambulance: Wandsworth’s response to the Spanish Civil War"
Article by Neil Robson, with acknowledgements to the publisher: The Wandsworth Historical Society

"Extract from 'Basques at Stoneham', Hampshire, December 1978"
Article by Mark Phillimore

"What were the British motivations for and against receiving Basque refugees during the Spanish Civil War?"
Article by Gary Willis: submitted as part of his MRes in Historical Research, University of London

"Art of the Basque Children"
Article by Simon Martinez

"Basque Children in Manchester, Salford and environs 1937"
Article by Simon Martinez

"Aid Spain Movement 1936 – 1939"
Article by Simon Martinez

"The Humanitarian nature of the evacuation of Basque Children to England during the Spanish Civil war"
Article by David Crowe: dissertation successfully submitted in part fulfilment of a BA (Hons) History degree to the University of Chichester.

"In search of the Basque children in Salford"
Article by Claire Hignett

"Basque Children in Sheffield 1937: the story of the Colony at Froggatt …"
Article by Simon Martínez

"Basque Refugees in the North East and Cumbria"
Article by Don Watson

"The niños in the North East and Cumbria"
Article by Don Watson

"Researching the Basque Children"
Article by Natalia Benjamin

"George Steer, the War in the Basque country and the Basque refugee children"
2011 BC'37A UK Annual Lecture, given by Nick Rankin

"The Basque Refugee Children in Britain 1937 - 1939; Personal Memory and Public History"
2009 (inaugural) BC'37A UK Annual Lecture, given by given by Dr Tom Buchanan

"The First Child to be Returned"
Article by Cliff Kirkpatrick

"The Blockade of Bilbao"
A talk given by Prof. Michael Alpert at the Marx Memorial Library, 21st June 2008.

"The Basque Children of 1937"
Article in Special Collections Newsletter, Spring 2008. University of Southampton.

"Basque Connections"
From the chapter on her father, Edgar Phillips, in "Home Hills and Beyond",
autobiography by Wendy Henningsson

"Basque Children Choir"

"Organisations which helped"

Specific Articles about some of the Colonies

Note: There may be further articles about specific colonies in the general articles section (further up this page)
and also in our detailed pages on some colonies here.

A concert in aid of the Basque children at St Joseph's, Aston,

Newspaper article Witney Gazette, 5 May 1939

Aston, St Joseph's,

Names of Basque children at Aston,

Basque Children’s Colony, Montrose,

Press article Sunday Post, 21 July 1985

Dundee & Montrose Press Cuttings 1937,

Background to the Montrose Colony,

Another Blue Plaque Unveiled! (Montrose),

Article by Carmen Coupland

Huddersfield,

Huddersfield and the Spanish Civil War - article by Alan Brooke March 2009
First published in the Huddersfield Local History Society Journal