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Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War.

On this episode of our Spanish Civil War interview series, I was joined by Tom Wardle.

Tom's research focuses on memory activism and how the Spanish Civil War is remembered,

and how that memory is fought over in modern-day Spain.

When discussing history, it can be easy to fall into just discussing,

you know, person A, did thing B on date C. When in fact, one of the most important aspects of

history is not just what happened, but also what the effects of those events were and how we

today remember those events. Near the end of our discussion, Tom mentions the award-winning

2018 documentary The Silence of Others, which I recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about

some of the subjects that we discuss.

Hello everyone and welcome to the Spanish Civil War interview series.

Today I'm joined by Tom Wardle, a postgraduate research student at the University of Southampton,

whose research focuses on memory activism of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoktatorship. Tom, how's it going today?

Yeah, very well, thank you. Oh, yeah. I'm doing okay. As good as I could do

in 2020. Day before Thanksgiving for those in the United States

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