All Outputs (14)

Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945 (2023)
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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.

Exhuming Franco: Spain’s second transition (2023)
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Richards, M. (in press). Exhuming Franco: Spain’s second transition. Journal of Modern History, 96(2),

Following recommendation by a commission of historians, General Franco’s coffin was removed in 2019 from the controversial basilica-cum-heritage site, the Valley of the Fallen, constructed by his regime in the mountains north of Madrid. This attempt... Read More about Exhuming Franco: Spain’s second transition.

Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order (2023)
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Richards, M. (in press). Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order. English Historical Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead151

This article analyses the conditions and ideas motivating cross-border connectivity among young Roman Catholic intellectuals during the trans-war era of the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Pax Romana, the Swiss-based international association of Catholi... Read More about Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order.

3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain (2020)
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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.

Paul Preston, The Spanish holocaust: inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain (London: Harper Collins, 2012) (2014)
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Graham, H., Labanyi, J., Marco, J., Preston, P., & Richards, M. (2014). Paul Preston, The Spanish holocaust: inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain (London: Harper Collins, 2012). Journal of Genocide Research, 16(1), 139-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2014.878120

Part of Forum responding to publication of Professor Paul Preston's The Spanish Holocaust

Falange, autarquía, i crisi: La vaga general a Barcelona de 1951 (2010)
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Richards, M. (2010). Falange, autarquía, i crisi: La vaga general a Barcelona de 1951

The limits of quantification: Francoist repression and historical methodology (2007)
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Richards, M. (2007). The limits of quantification: Francoist repression and historical methodology

Between memory and history: Social relationships and ways of remembering the Spanish civil war (2006)
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Richards, M. (2006). Between memory and history: Social relationships and ways of remembering the Spanish civil war. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 19(1), 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis.19.1.85/3

A memoria da fame e a historia do tempo presente (2006)
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Richards, M. (2006). A memoria da fame e a historia do tempo presente

Spanish psychiatry c.1900-1945: Constitutional theory, eugenics and nation (2004)
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Richards, M. (2004). Spanish psychiatry c.1900-1945: Constitutional theory, eugenics and nation. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 81(6), 823-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475382042000272319

Egos and ideals in the Spanish Civil War (2004)
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Richards, M. (2004). Egos and ideals in the Spanish Civil War. History Workshop Journal, 58(1), 340-348. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/58.1.340

Memory and historical consciousness in post-war Spain (2003)
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Richards, M. (2003). Memory and historical consciousness in post-war Spain

From war culture to civil society: Francoism, social change and memories of the Spanish Civil War (2002)
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Richards, M. (2002). From war culture to civil society: Francoism, social change and memories of the Spanish Civil War. History and Memory, 14(1/2), 93-120

Morality and biology in the Spanish Civil War: Psychiatrists, revolution and women prisoners in Málaga (2001)
Journal Article
Richards, M. (2001). Morality and biology in the Spanish Civil War: Psychiatrists, revolution and women prisoners in Málaga. Contemporary European History, 10(3), 395-421. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777301003046

The psychiatric study of women prisoners in the city of Málaga during the Spanish Civil War provides a starting point for a two-part analysis of the gendered tension between biology and morality. First, the relationship of organic psychiatry and bio-... Read More about Morality and biology in the Spanish Civil War: Psychiatrists, revolution and women prisoners in Málaga.