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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.

Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order (2023)
Journal Article
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)
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.

Prólogo (2016)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2016). Prólogo. In I. Fernandez de Mata (Ed.), Lloros vueltos puños: El conflicto de los “desaparecidos” y vencidos de la guerra civil española (vi-xii). Granada: Comares

Summary of current debates about civil war and memory in Spain

Remembering Spain’s war: Violence, social change, and collective identity since 1936 (2014)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2014). Remembering Spain’s war: Violence, social change, and collective identity since 1936. In P. Anderson, & M. A. del Arco Blanco (Eds.), Mass Killings and Violence in Spain 1936-1952: Grappling with the Past (195-209). (1). New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203706404

The public resurgence in Spain of memories of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship has been crystallised and articulated by civil society associations whose aim has been 'the recuperation of historical memory'. The democratic principles of the p... Read More about Remembering Spain’s war: Violence, social change, and collective identity since 1936.

Paul Preston, The Spanish holocaust: inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain (London: Harper Collins, 2012) (2014)
Journal Article
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

Recordando la guerra de España: Violencia, cambio social e identidad colectiva desde 1936 (2014)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2014). Recordando la guerra de España: Violencia, cambio social e identidad colectiva desde 1936. In P. Anderson, & M. D. Arco Blanco (Eds.), Lidiando con el pasado: Represión y memoria de la guerra civil y el franquismo (217-232). Granada: Editorial Comares

Study of post-civil war memory in Spain and changes in society and collective identity

After the civil war: Making memory and re-making Spain since 1936 (2013)
Book
Richards, M. (2013). After the civil war: Making memory and re-making Spain since 1936. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

The Spanish Civil War was fought not only on the streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also through memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book reassesses the eras of war, dictatorship and transition to democracy in... Read More about After the civil war: Making memory and re-making Spain since 1936.

Antonio Vallejo Nágera: Heritage, psychiatry and war (2012)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2012). Antonio Vallejo Nágera: Heritage, psychiatry and war. In M. Á. D. Arco Blanco, & A. Quiroga Fernández (Eds.), Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era: Soldiers of God and Apostles of the Fatherland, 1914-1945 (195-224). Continuum

Antonio Vallejo Nágera: Herencia, psiquiatría y guerra (2010)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2010). Antonio Vallejo Nágera: Herencia, psiquiatría y guerra. In M. Á. D. Arco Blanco, & A. Quiroga Fernández (Eds.), Soldados de Dios y Apóstoles de la Patria: Las Derechas Españolas en la Europa de Entreguerras (177-206). Granada: Editorial Comares

Daily life in the Spanish civil war, 1936-1939 (2008)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2008). Daily life in the Spanish civil war, 1936-1939. In N. Atkin (Ed.), Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-century Europe (73-104). Westport: Greenwood

Doctrine and politics in nationalist Spain (2007)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2007). Doctrine and politics in nationalist Spain. In N. Valis (Ed.), Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War (88-98). New York: The Modern Language Association of America

The popular front (2005)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2005). The popular front. In G. Martel (Ed.), A Companion to Europe 1900-1945 (375-390). Oxford: Blackwell

History, memory and the Spanish civil war: Recent perspectives (2005)
Book Chapter
Richards, M., & Ealham, C. (2005). History, memory and the Spanish civil war: Recent perspectives. In M. Richards, & C. Ealham (Eds.), The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (1-20). Cambridge University Press

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.