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Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945 (2023)
Journal Article
Richards, M. (2024). Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945. European History Quarterly, 54(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231216874

Recent accounting for disease in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War has been contained within study of hunger in the early 1940s. Historians have cited the typhus epidemic which hit Spain between 1939 and 1945 as demonstrating a causal link betwe... Read More about Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945.

3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain (2020)
Journal Article
Richards, M. (2020). 3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain. Patterns of Prejudice, 54(5), 493-501. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.1950317

Richards’s article is a reflection on comparative history inspired by the pulling down of the statue of the slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol in June 2020. It explores the evolution in Spain of state policies and civil society activism to do wit... Read More about 3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain.