“Spain Mad”: British Engagement with the Spanish Civil War

Tom Buchanan is Professor of Modern British and European History at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on British involvement in the Spanish Civil War. His most recent book is Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945-1977 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: “Spain mad”? Pro-Republican Activism during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Chapter 2: Philip Jordan and the ambiguities of anti-Fascism

Chapter 3: Building the “Kingdom of God on earth”: Reverend E.O. Iredell and the Spanish Civil War

Chapter 4: Drake’s Drum: G. T. Garratt and the Plymouth Drake by-election of June 1937

Chapter 5: “Professional survivor”: the notorious life of Wilfred Macartney

Chapter 6: “Fred Bloody Copeman”: from mutiny to Moral Re-Armament

Chapter 7: Edith and Felicia: Dangerous journeys

Chapter 8: George Orwell and the political world of Homage to Catalonia

Chapter 9: 1961: Hugh Thomas at the turning point

Chapter 10: “Lifting the curtain”: Jim Fyrth and The Signal was Spain

Chapter 11: A Plaque for Azuara: In Search of Frank Whitfield

Afterword

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