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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 1h

Sample 'Travels in the Spanish Civil War' by @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh2rnc6e ‘A masterly piece of objective writing.’ — Richard Blair, Trustee of the Orwell Society & son of George Orwell 25% off w/code TRAVELS25

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1h

Peasants arriving Plaça Catalunya, Barcelona in the summer of 1936 to volunteer for the militias, before heading for the Aragón front. I don't know the photographer or the date. Bayer sign in the background.

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Ed Davitt @davitter.bsky.social · 14h

Picked up my copy just today at the Dublin Festival of History (where Helen Graham was presenting on the Civil War as European conflict). Saw your name and made a beeline!

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 14h

My book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social 7 years to write. Starts in Barcelona's Plaça Catalunya, ends Austria. Takes the reader to Aragón with Orwell's son. War traveling through today's landscapes, scars of violence still there, how war remembered

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 22h

This is rather cool. Shared with me by Gil Cividanes who writes "The photo taken in front of a [Francoist] Spanish grocery on West 14th Street, NYC in about 1937. The girl on left is my aunt Zazi aged 18-19, the woman to her right is my grandmother's friend Doña Francisca." Don't buy fascist goods.

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Eoghan Gilmartin @eoghangilmartin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New Episode: Elections Called in Spain Amid Ongoing Housing Protests We analyse the prospects for a left-wing comeback as far-right Vox surges in the polls with @joehas.bsky.social Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/688L...

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Elections Called in Spain!!

Podcast Episode · The Sobremesa Podcast · 9 October · 53min

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Poster for the 18th edition of the "Volta a Catalunya" held from 13-21 June 1936, one month before the start of the Spanish Civil War. The race was won by Mariano Cañardo. Cycling was at the time among the most popular sports by spectators in Catalonia after football and boxing.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A young Montpellier snake on Montjuïc emerging from the castle walls by Lucy Brzoska. I've yet to spot one here, but it's always nice to know Europe's largest snake, feisty too, might be watching us as we walk by, still living in the heart of Barcelona. iberianature.com

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Barcelona metro stopped for a minute today in respect to the family of Maricarmen Abascal who, as the screen explained, died this week aged 87 after being evicted from her Madrid home - where she'd lived since 1956-, sparking the wave of housing protests across Spain.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Group of Austrian and German International Brigade volunteers resting in Benissa, Alicante, September 1937. From the book "Voluntarios austriacos en la España republicana". Wonder what they're listening to. Erich Wolf, holding the record, later survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sticker I spotted outside a Catalan public hospital re-using Agustí Centelles' 1936 photo of militia women on the Aragón front "Faced with the social emergency, feminism is essential".

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These beautiful pottok horses on Bianditz mountain, Navarra. Behind lie the Aiako mountains. The Pottok is an endangered, semi-feral breed of pony native to the Basque Pyrenees. This photo by Mikel Ortega was named image of the day on Wikipedia.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Images of Emma Goldman's visit to a farming collective in Barcelona's neighbour of L'Hospitalet. #onthisday 8 October 1937. Pérez de Rozas. Conserved at the Arxiu Municipal de l'Hospitalet

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reclaiming the vulture -such a wonderful and ecologically important group of 23 birds around the world- from lazy leftist language. "Love vultures. Hate fascist speculators". I want a badge.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fewer than 27,000 people own (have stashed) more than a million homes in Spain

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Barcelona's industrial port hazy from Montjuïc, its slopes invaded by these purple flowers - morning glory from Central America. Their seeds are I'm told a hallucinagenic similar to LSD. Failed to see the pair of peregrine falcons that that hunt from the cliffs below

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Staged shot of Republican militia in Aragón on the front page of La Vanguardia, 2 October 1936. " The victorious advance of our forces". An example of small wins sold as great victories, but the reality was something else. Photo by Agustí Centelles.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This splendid looking male Iberian emerald lizard (Lacerta schreiberi) in the Sierra de la Culebra, Zamora. Endemic to the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. After taking this, standing on one leg, arm outstretched, I fell into a bush of thorns. Lagarto verdinegro in Spanish.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Australian aid campaign for Spanish Republic. Showing of Spanish War films to raise funds. Assembly Hall, Melbourne, October 1938

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman addressing a meeting of the CNT-FAI, Barcelona, 18 October 1936.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Vote for the Left. For them!" Poster for the Front d'Esquerres (name of the Popular Front in Catalonia) for the February 1936 Spanish general election. By Cristóbal Arteche.

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Homenaje a los brigadistas galeses, en los Alexandra Gardens de Cardiff @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Memorial, Serra de Pàndols, erected in 1938 with names of International Brigaders killed in the Ebro battle. The memorial survived the Franco regime hidden in these hills and was rediscovered some years ago. Flag has taken a battering since I was last there.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On the way up to Monte de Aragón castle, taken by the POUM mlitia in September 1936. Ridiculously beautiful wildflowers like a Monet, a griffon vulture sonewhere above. Always a vulture somewhere over your head in Aragón. With Orwell Society one May.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Barcelona yesterday broke its highest rainfall levels ever recorded over 24 hours. Around 200 mm. The new climate normal is that weather records are smashed everywhere.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Cable Street battle, Jewish London East End #OnThisDay 4 Oct 1936 with their banner explicitly adapting the antifascist slogan of the defence of Madrid "NO PASARÁN." They shall not pass. Many that day who fought against police who allowed the fascist march then came to Spain

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Honoured to have played a small role in putting together our (Associacio Boix) permanent display on Francesc Boix, the photographer of Mauthausen, at the Biblioteca de Poble-sec Francesc Boix.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shanty homes,Montjuïc, Barcelona with Palau Nacional (MNAC) behind Barracas as called in Spanish covered huge area of hill until late 60s housing 30,000 desperately poor who'd left even poorer rural. Realities of Francoist city. Screenshot from 1967 film "Mañana será otra día"

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Absolutely bucketed it down this week in Barcelona, the marks of Mussolini's murderous bomb behind on the façade of Sant Felip Neri.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The housing protest which began Madrid has now spread to Barcelona. Plaça Catalunya this morning.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Information kiosk of the CNT / FAI on la Rambla de Canaletes (top part) , 1937. 📷 Carlos Pérez de Rozas. Must try and locate this.

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Eoghan Gilmartin @eoghangilmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Episode: Madrid's Housing Revolt! @eoghangilmartin.bsky.social talks to Hannah Fakir from the @inquilinatomad.bsky.social about the protest wave hitting Spain over property speculation, evictions and soaring housing costs. open.spotify.com/episode/3cwi...

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Madrid Housing Revolt

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tram lines last year unearthed as part of the reform of La Rambla this morning Photo: No. 16 collectivised tram, 4 minutes up the street in Plaça de Catalunya, 1936. The line stopped running in 1961.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Image from the funeral procession of anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti. At front is Natividad Falú Duval from Puerto Rico who had lived in Barcelona since 1916. In 1936 joined the Durruti Column. POUM aid office Socorrs Roig behind. La Rambla, 22 November 1936. Don't know 📸

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Memorial in the Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of Franco in Barcelona, to the Austrians "who died fighting for the freedom of Spain and Austria". Some 1300 Austrians fought in the International Brigades in Spain.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Short video of trip of L82 bus through L"Hospitalet. On Barcelona's western border this is among the densest cities in Europe. The old centre is nice enough and there's a very pleasant rambla untouched by tourism. Outside, tightly packed blocks to house several phases of migration since the 1920s.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

15 years ago before I started doing Spanish Civil War tours I first did a test run with a friend. As we walked down La Rambla talking about revolutionary Barcelona who should we bump into but renowned Korean anarchosyndicalist 😉 PSY then riding high with Gangnam style.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Photo taken Barcelona, 1936 by British journalist John Langdon-Davies. Famous poster on top right "The militias need you! Location is Pla del Palau. Colourised by Julius Backmaan on Instagram.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Impressive ice well in Fuendetodos, birthplace of Goya. One of ~1000 in Aragón, Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia Built during Little Ice Age (C16-19th). Were big business in Eastern Spain. Ice collected over winter in sierras, stored+shipped to cities until early C20th when technology rendered obsolete

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1914 photo of Federico García Lorca teaching his sister Isabel to read music... He'd be about 16 here in their Granada home.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Esbardu. A lovely Asturian word meaning bear cub. Some 370 brown bears now live in the Cantabrian mountains, on a steady path to recovery after a a nadir at the turn of the century. Photo. Fundación Oso Pardo

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For 19 years the village of Llueves, Asturias has been commemorating "the first Spanish Republican": a bear which, so the story goes, killed King Fávila, son of Pelayo, who, "according to the Spanish monarchial tradition" began the so-called Reconquista and set off succession to today's monarchy

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Meet our new neighbour Eva. She lives in our stairwell and is a blue-eyed ensign wasp (Evania appendigaster). She parasites the oothecas (egg capules) of cockroaches - a huge problem in Barcelona in the heat, humidity and so many restaurants. We love Eva.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

40 years of "Desmemoria" Via the World of Maps on Instagram... I think data from 2025 El País poll

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

John Coltrane's Olé (1961). Again and again. Lorca"s "Gypsy ballards", Langston Hughes' articles and poems from Spain, Malcolm X, NY flamenco clubs, Pete Seeger's rendition of El Quinto Regimiento and the memory of American brigaders which Coltrane must surely have known...

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Memorial in Oxford to the 31 volunteers from Oxfordshire who fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, 6 of whom were killed:. In stone, the clenched fist crushing a scorpion, symbolising the poison of fascism and the 3-point star of th International Brigades 📷 BulgeUwU (Wiki)

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First page of 18th century Basque-Icelandic dictionary. A Basque-Icelandic pidgin was spoken between locals and Basque whalers from ~1600 including the well-known expression "Fenicha for ju" meaning F**k you! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque%...

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1981 poster advertising The Clash's only tour to Spain, playing in Madrid, Badalona and San Sebastian. The latter concert in the Anoeta stadium had a huge impact, a spark it is claimed leading to the formation of numerous Basque punk and alternative bands

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats

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