Historias: The Spanish History Podcast

Las narrativas historiográficas neoliberales que surgieron al fin de la Guerra Fría presentaron la guerra como un factor desglobalizador. ¿Pero es la realidad histórica tan sencilla? En este episodio, conversamos con Ángel Alcalde y José Escribano sobre cómo la guerra puede ser, de hecho, un factor globalizador. Ellos son autores del artículo reciente “War and globalisation in the modern era (1500s–2000s): actors, technologies and spaces” (https://doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2026.2717789), publicado en la revista War & Society . Además, nos ofrecen varios ejemplos de esta dinámica en el mundo ibérico.

The horrors of the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War were made known to the world by Picasso's famous painting Guernica, but Nationalist forces bombed cities throughout Republican Spain through the whole course of the war. In this episode, David Messenger, author of Civilian Bombing and Civil Defence in the Spanish Civil War, discusses the untold story of Republican efforts to protect their citizens from these bombings by building bomb shelters and even training for a gas attack. He also examines efforts in recent years to open some of these shelters to the public as sites for preserving the historical memory of the war.

Episode 74 by Historias Podcast

El movimiento anarquista es uno de los fenómenos más importantes en la historia contemporánea de España, pero fue prohibido entre 1871 y 1881. Pero ya legal, en 1882-83, fue acusado falsamente de ser una organización terrorista, conocida como la Mano Negra. En este episodio, la profesora Clara Lida habla de cómo los anarquistas sobrevivieron los largos años de persecución, gracias a diversos mecanismos de movilización y vínculos transnacionales. Concluimos con una discusión de los conceptos de anarco-comunismo y propaganda por el hecho.

Political violence during Spain's Second Republic period (1931-1936) was one of the primary causes of the Spanish Civil War. What was the role of Spain's largest militarized police force, the Civil Guard, in this violence? In this episode, Historias host Bretton Rodriguez interviews Historias host Foster Chamberlin about his new book Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War to find out. They explore the origins of the organizational culture of the Civil Guard going back to the mid-19th century, the relations between civil guards and local townspeople, incidents of political violence involving the Civil Guard during the Second Republic, and the role of the Asturias rebellion of 1934 in shifting civil guards' attitudes towards the public.