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30 March 2019
Association forthcoming events
Monday 18 March - Friday 5 April LEEDS
Leeds Central Library, Municipal Buildings, Calverley Street,
Leeds LS1 3AB
The Basque Children, Exhibition
Official opening: 19 March at 17:30 at the Leeds Central Library in the Leodis Room.
Public talks by Scott Ramsay and Dr Peter Anderson.
Ticket page for this event: www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/622261
Monday 1 April - Tuesday 30 April GUERNICA
The Astra Arts Centre, Guernica, Spain
Exhibition: The Basque Children.
A joint exhibition between the BCA'37UK and Maite Pinto.
More information …
Friday 12 April GUERNICA
The Astra Arts Centre, Guernica, Spain
Award winning film directed by Steve Bowles: The Children of Guernica.
Including Q &A with Manuel Moreno and Simon Martinez of the BCA'37UK. More information …
Wednesday 25 September - Friday 29 November SALFORD
Working Class Movement Library, 51 Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX
Exhibition: Basque Children - Refugees of the Spanish Civil War.
Opening times Wednesdays to Fridays 1pm - 5 pm and the first Saturday of most months 10 am - 4 pm. Tel 0161 736 3601. Opening event on Wednesday 25 September - details nearer the time.
News, Events & Reports
Review of 2018
We have recently prepared our "Annual Report and Accounts" for 2018.
28th January Beach House, WORTHING
The rededication and unveiling of the renovated blue plaque commemorating the Basque children's stay at Beach House.
A report of the event by Meirian Jump can be read here.
Press reports: The Worthing Herald report here, and: The Worthing Society report here.
Photos of the event can also be found in our gallery here.
School visits
The Association is keen to raise awareness of the events of 1937 by offering talks to schools. Here is a letter from a school and a school magazine report that we have received following visits.
El niño vasco de Mansilla de las Mulas
Paco Robles, a niño, has been in the news recently following the publication and launch of a book about his life and memories by the Asturian author Miguel Ángel Fernández.
More information at these web sites:
www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/sociedad/paco-es-tipo-comun-vio-truncada-infancia-guerra_1307113.html
and
http://ultimocero.com/noticias/movimientos-sociales/2019/01/25/paco-robles-nino-la-guerra-aun-recuerda-estruendo-las-bombas-gernika/
For other recently posted and older notices, click here.
Welcome
In 1937, during the Spanish civil war, almost 4,000 children were evacuated to the UK from Bilbao. Read more …
At first they stayed in a camp at Stoneham and later in colonies throughout the UK. Read more …
We want to remember and preserve the story of these niños de la guerra in their rightful context. Read more …
From the Archives
From Newsletter 15, May 2011
Visit to Guipuzcoa
by Carmen Kilner.
… and an article you may have missed:
The Repatriation of the Basque Children by Gerald Hoare and Simon Martinez.
Read the full article here …… and a photo from back then:
April 1939 - repatriation
(click for further information)
With kind permission of Southworth Collection, Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego