Richard Baxell

Sisters in arms

25 February 2023 9:00 am

‘I didn’t even want to go to Spain. I had to. Because’, said the American writer Josephine Herbst – just one of the sisterhood to become immersed in the struggle

How the International Brigades were ‘thrown into the heart of the fire’

17 October 2020 9:00 am

During the Spanish civil war of 1936 to 1939, 35,000 men and women from around the world volunteered to fight…