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The British teenage anarchist who tried to kill Franco with explosives hidden under granny’s sweater

The scale of his repression, torture and murder made him a natural target for political campaigns and the morally aware, writes Alastair Stewart.

Expert on Spanish history passes away

A MUCH-LOVED expert on Spanish history whose work was banned by Franco has passed away. British historian Hugh Thomas, an associate of Margaret Thatcher,...

Spanish parliament votes to exhume Franco’s remains

Opposition parties on the left and centre backed a motion 198 votes to one to remove the fascist dictator out of state-funded mausoleum Valle de los Caidos

Huge former Malaga textile factory to undergo renovation at last

Malaga’s former Intelhorce textile factory, built under Franco’s orders, will be turned into a distribution centre for a children’s clothing firm

One of Franco’s last surviving ministers buried in Andalucia

Jose Utrera Molina has been buried in Nerja, where he lived.

Remembering the thousands killed by Franco forces during Malaga’s N340 massacre

The anniversary has been marked by a series of events

PSOE bid to have dead dictator Franco’s body removed from Madrid’s Valley of the Fallen

The main opposition party’s motion will be debated in parliament

From dictatorship to democracy: The legacy of Spain’s first post-Franco leader

It is 40 years since Suarez's introduction of the civil war 'pact of forgetting' and Spain's first democratic elections

Spanish Civil War Expo pavilion restaged in London

The Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 Paris International World's Fair, which showcased Pablo Picasso’s Guernica and Joan Miro’s The Reaper for the first time in public, has been recreated in London

Catalonia leaders accused of frustrating attempts to return priceless Romanesque artworks

Catalan leaders are being accused of undermining attempts to repatriate priceless Romanesque frescoes

Fight over frescos ramps up Madrid-Catalonia rivalry

Catalan leaders stand accused of undermining attempts to repatriate priceless artworks

Spanish siesta to get the boot as Spain dumps ‘Nazi time’ for GMT

The government is considering replacing the ‘Nazi time zone’ it currently operates in with Greenwich Mean Time

New future for Pamplona fascist war memorial following exhumations

The controversial Monumento a los Caidos in Pamplona could become a ‘historical memory centre’ now that the bones of nine military leaders have been removed.

Spanish Civil War colour documentary airs tonight

THE SHOCKING realities of the Spanish Civil War will be laid bare  in a new colour TV documentary. British historian Antony Beever's Divided Spain: The Civil...

Franco exhibition in Spain met with protests and egging

Catalan separatists shouted ‘no fascists on our streets’

Former Franco-era womens’ prison converted into art gallery in Spain

The exhibiting artists have all worked with the themes of suffocation, isolation and resistance

Franco and Himmler ‘tribute’ at Spanish fiesta sparks outrage

Residents felt the images honoured the former Spanish dictator and Nazi officer

Flight from Franco: A P.O.W recalls his great escape from the Valley of the Fallen

Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz recalls his escape from a prison camp in 1948

Valley of the Fallen: General Franco’s final resting place

Forty years after Franco, his tomb beneath one of the Civil War’s last battlefields is still causing controversy

Spain marks 40 years since Franco’s death

At least 16 Catholic churches are to hold services

German government is paying pensions of Spanish Nazi volunteers

Parliamentary enquiry reveals German taxpayer is funding 41 Blue Division veterans' pensions

Car covered in fascist symbols banned by Catalan town hall

Provocative political artists wanted to drive Nazi car through Figueres town centre

Young woman murdered by Franco firing squad to be honoured

La Carolina Town Hall, in Jaen is to make Ana Lopez Gallego an honorary mayor

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