{"id":22186,"date":"2023-02-10T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T09:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=224068"},"modified":"2023-02-10T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:36:38","slug":"fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless female voices of the Spanish Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Sarah Watling shines a light on the remarkable women who joined the fight against General Franco \u2013 from political firebrands to bestselling authors <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Jon Bauckham\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 10 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>In the summer of 1936, Spain descended into a brutal civil war between its democratically elected government and a nationalist insurgency led by General Francisco Franco. Sarah Watling tells Jon Bauckham about the fearless female writers and activists who joined the fight against Franco and sought to alert the world to Spain\u2019s plight \u2013 from famed journalist Martha Gellhorn to nursing pioneer Salaria Kea.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-224068-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/02\/fearlessfemalevoicesofthespanishcivilwar-70f42bd.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/02\/fearlessfemalevoicesofthespanishcivilwar-70f42bd.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/02\/fearlessfemalevoicesofthespanishcivilwar-70f42bd.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Sarah Watling is the author of <em>Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War<\/em> (Vintage, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/tomorrow-perhaps-the-future-following-writers-and-rebels-in-the-spanish-civil-war-sarah-watling\/7040040?ean=9781787332409&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tomorrow-Perhaps-Future-Following-Writers\/dp\/1787332403\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/tomorrow-perhaps-the-future\/sarah-watling\/9781787332409&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sarah Watling shines a light on the remarkable women who joined the fight against General Franco \u2013 from political firebrands to bestselling authors <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":22187,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/fearless-female-voices-of-the-spanish-civil-war.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Sarah Watling shines a light on the remarkable women who joined the fight against General Franco \u2013 from political firebrands to bestselling authors","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/22186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}