We hold a number of collections which include original
material of Australians who volunteered to serve in the International Brigades
in the Spanish Civil War. There are also files and publications relating to
protests against the war.
PERSONAL PAPERS
Amirah Inglis
Collection
Historian Amirah Inglis gathered original records, photographs,
printed material and oral histories for her book, Australians and the Spanish Civil War (1987). There are photographs of
Australian volunteers, and contemporary press clippings, postcards, posters and
stamps. Her files also include her research
notes on International and
General Brigades, nurses, refugees, Australian Catholics, the Spanish Relief
Committee, and trade unions; poetry relating to the war; medals and
badges of Mary Lowson; tapes of interviews with Lloyd Edmonds, Harry
Buttonshaw, Joe Carter and others; and Ralph Gibson’s notes for his book on
Spain (N171, 9 boxes, 2 albums).
Margaret Howells Collection
Correspondence,
photographs, newspaper cuttings, and printed material including postcards and
pamphlets relating to Australian participation in the Spanish Civil War (Z299,
2 boxes).
Files including: Movement
against War and Fascism: Spain: handbills, press cuttings etc, 1936-1939
(N57/479), Spanish Relief Committee, 1936-1939 (N57/450), press clippings:
Spain (New Statesman, Communist Review), 1937 (N57/822), pamphlets
relating to the Spanish Civil War, 1934-1938, (N57/1362-1375), serials Alianza and Juventud,
1938 (N57/2063-64) and posters (N57/2270-71).
Phil
Thorne Collection (P15)
Records of the Spanish Relief Committee (SRC) which
was formed in
Correspondence of WA Morcom to Mary
Lamm (Wright) including press cuttings, 10 July 1938 (Z267/Box 17) and Spanish
Civil War pamphlets, 1936-1952 and paper by Phil Thorne on Spanish Relief
Committee, 1985 (Z267/Box 26).
Australian
Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
Secretary’s files, Sydney file, 1937-1939 (N21/60)
includes correspondence with Spanish Relief Committee, proceedings of NSW Trade
Union Congress, Apr 1938, and responses by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons to ACTU
deputation and correspondence, Mar-Jun 1938.
Secretary’s files,
ACTU
Special Congress Papers, 1937: agenda item ‘The Dangers of War’ and
supplementary agenda paper ‘Spain’, 22-23 July 1937, and 1939: agenda item
‘International Situation’, 6 March 1939 (S784).
Australian
Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, Queensland Division
War and Fascism, 1937-1941 (E212/556).
Australians
in Spain Memorial Appeal Committee Correspondence, leaflets, photographs and
cassette tapes relating to the Australians in Spain Memorial, unveiled in
Canberra in 1993. The tapes include reminiscences by English volunteers (N173,
1 box).
Sheet
Metal Working, Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of
Australia, NSW
Correspondence, 1936 (E196/5/1); correspondence
with organisations, 1938-1939, including Spanish War films, 1938 and pamphlet
‘Truth about Spanish Civil War’ by Sam Aarons and Alice Holloway, 1937
(E196/6/1); correspondence with organisations, 1939-1940 (E196/6/3).
See also the Amirah Inglis, Margaret Howells and Phil Thorne
collections above.
Australian Coal and Shale Employees
Federation
Group of people with Spanish Relief Committee
placard, 1930s (E165/56/7, K2433) and
farewell to the four Australian nurses who went to the Spanish Civil
War, 1936 (E165/56/23, K2448).
Joe Harris, United Operative Painters Union, Qld
Float at protest against fascism in Spanish Civil
War, c. 1936 (Z625/Box 38).
United Operative Bricklayers Trade
Society, NSW
Press photographs relating to women and children in
the Spanish Civil War (Z534/Box 6).
Waterside
Workers Federation of Australia
Joe Carter, Port Kembla wharf labourer and member
of the International Brigades (see also Maritime Workers Journal, 1994)
(Z432/Box 86).
SERIALS
Australian Labour Defender, 1933-1936 (S206)
Australian Quarterly, Dec 1936 (S220)
Common Cause, Feb 1938 issue (S104)
Information
Service
(SRC), 1936-1937 (S486)
PAMPHLETS
See
also the Phil Thorne Collection above, as only
those not found in this collection are listed here.
Anon., Twenty
years under the Fascist dictatorship of General Franco, London, 1959
(McDonald P39/1/654)
Anon., Por
Euzkadi hacia la victoria!, Valencia, 1937 (Wright P120/646)
Anon., El clero vasca, fiel al Gobierno de la Republica, se dirige
al Surno Pontifice, para hacer constar que la bandalica destruccion de Durango
y Guernica se debio exclusivamente a la accionde los aviones alemanes, 1937 (Wright P120/1419)
Blackwell, R., The
Spanish revolution revisited, Chicago, 1940s (Playford P124/420)
Burns, E., The People’s Front, London, 1936 (Wright P120/104)
Campbell, J.R., Spain’s
‘left’ critics, London 1937 (Wright P120/116)
Code, J.B., The Spanish war and lying propaganda, New York, 1939?
(Wright P120/143)
Davies, J.L., The
Spanish Church and Politics, London, 1937 (Playford P64/15/18)
Gallardo, O.Y., Un grand Catholique
espagnol vous parle…, Paris, 10 Oct 1936 (Turner P2/1/483)
Greaves,
H.R.G., The truth about Spain, London, 1938 (SUA E183/77/225)
Hanighen, F., The
war for raw materials in Spain, Melbourne, 1937 (McDonald P94/1/311)
Hernandez, J., Spain
organises for victory, London, 1930s (Wright P120/361)
Ibarruri D. (La Pasionaria), For the Independence of Spain, for the
Republic, for Liberty: Union for All Spaniards, Madrid-Barcelona, 1938
(ACSEF N144/1170)
Journalist, A.
(pseud.), Foreign journalists under Franco’s terror, London, 1937
(Wright P120/399)
McGovern, J., Terror in Spain,
London, 1938? (Kavanagh P12/1/21)
Ministerio de
Propaganda, Spain, Los nacionales postcard (Wright P120/1422)
Negrin, J., Speech
by the President of the Council of Ministers, Barcelona, 14 Oct 1938
(Wright P120/1420)
Negrin, J., The
Thirteen Points for which Spain is Fighting, 1938 (Wright P120/1421)
Pollitt, H., Arms
for Spain, London, 1936 (SUA E183/77/385)
Rios, F. de los, What is happening in Spain?, four addresses by the Spanish Ambassador to USA, London, 1937 (Holland P5/1/1135)
Russell, A., The truth about Spain, Sydney, 1945 (SUA E183/77/395)
Spanish Medical Aid Committee report, London, 1936 (Turner P2/1/969)
Spanish Relief Committee, Exiled! 460,000 Spanish refugees have fled
into France, Melbourne, 1939 (E196/3/12/2)
Subsecretaria de Propaganda, Spain, Ironicas de la guerra (recopilacion
de articulos periodisticos), 1937 (Wright P120/1423)
UK Labour Party, Madrid: The military atrocities of the rebels,
London, 1937 (FTS P20/1/68)
Varga, E., Spain in revolution, Sydney, 1936 (Turner P2/1/1042)
Wallon, H., Children in Franco Spain, Spanish National Commission in defence of children, 1952 (SUA E183/77/465)
War Victims
Relief Committee, Too late to prevent that!, Brisbane, 1930s (SUA
E183/77/468)
Weinert, E., Six
songs for democracy, New York, 1940 (SUA E183/77/471)
BOOKS AND THESES
Anderson, J.S., The
Impact of the Spanish Civil War on the NSW working class politics and opinion,
University of NSW honours thesis, 1964 (P15/11)
Cox, G., Defence of Madrid: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish
Civil War, 2006 (P88/573)
Miranda, C., Australia and the Spanish Civil War: Politics and People,
University of Canberra, 1991 (P88/312)
Darian-Smith, K., The Spanish Relief Committee, Australia 1936-1940:
Pioneers against Fascism (P88/94)
Smith, C., Pioneers against Fascism? Australia’s Spanish Relief
Committee, honours thesis (P88/171).