Research Catalog

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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Details

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

• 1900-1999
• Basques > Wales > History > 20th century
• Refugee children > Wales > History > 20th century
• Basque diaspora
• Spain > History > Children. > Civil War, 1936-1939
• Spain > History > Refugees. > Civil War, 1936-1939

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-164) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Uncertain Welcome -- 2. Brothers of the Blood -- 3. Badge of Honour -- 4. Great and the Good -- 5. Out of Harm's Way -- 6. Shelter from the Storm -- 7. Dastardly Yarns -- 8. Tidal Wave of Giving -- 9. `The Best Part of My Life' -- 10. Fault Lines -- 11. Don't Sing the Songs of the Past -- 12. Not Ours, But Ours to Look After.

ISBN

• 9780708323366 (pbk.)
• 0708323367 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 670480160
• SCSB-12228636

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library