Michael Richards' Outputs (15)

Affordable housing and urban politics in Spain, 1924-1937: Málaga’s ‘Garden City’, from Dictatorship to Republic (2024)
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This article explores working class housing schemes and urban planning to gain a new angle for viewing successive national political crises in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the southern city of Málaga through a micro-study of the Ciudad... Read More about Affordable housing and urban politics in Spain, 1924-1937: Málaga’s ‘Garden City’, from Dictatorship to Republic.

Exhuming Franco: Spain’s second transition (2024)
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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.

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

Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order (2023)
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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’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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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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The limits of quantification: Francoist repression and historical methodology (2007)
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Between memory and history: Social relationships and ways of remembering the Spanish civil war (2006)
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A memoria da fame e a historia do tempo presente (2006)
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Spanish psychiatry c.1900-1945: Constitutional theory, eugenics and nation (2004)
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Egos and ideals in the Spanish Civil War (2004)
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Memory and historical consciousness in post-war Spain (2003)
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From war culture to civil society: Francoism, social change and memories of the Spanish Civil War (2002)
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Morality and biology in the Spanish Civil War: Psychiatrists, revolution and women prisoners in Málaga (2001)
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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.