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Fleeing Franco : how Wales gave shelter to refugee children from the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War
- Title
- Fleeing Franco : how Wales gave shelter to refugee children from the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War / Hywel Davies.
- Author
- Davies, Hywel M., 1956-
- Publication
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
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- Description
- xi, 169 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This is the story of how children escaping the Spanish Civil War were given a home in Wales. The year was 1937 and the forces of General Franco were advancing on the Basque city of Bilbao. A few hundred of the children evacuated from the city found a welcome in Wales where they were given shelter in Swansea, Old Colwyn, Caerleon and Carmarthenshire. At a time when the ordinary people of Wales were themselves undergoing terrible deprivation there was a tidal wave of giving to keep these children housed, fed and nurtured. Most of the children eventually returned to Spain but for some their exile stretched to a lifetime.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-164) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-3136
- ISBN
- 9780708323366 (pbk.)
- 0708323367 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 670480160
- Author
- Davies, Hywel M., 1956-
- Title
- Fleeing Franco : how Wales gave shelter to refugee children from the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War / Hywel Davies.
- Imprint
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-164) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-3136