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Activist and long-standing IBMT member Lisa Croft on her Brigader forebear… My grandfather was Archibald Campbell McCaskill Williams, “AC” for short. He was a lifelong socialist, believing in equality and freedom for the ordinary person, and an International Brigade comrade in Spain, becoming a prisoner during the Battle of Jarama. AC Williams, who was born […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
We need your help to identify a commemoration from the past. If you have any information, please contact us. Do you remember this commemoration at the International Brigade memorial in Jubilee Gardens on London’s Southbank – or can you help pinpoint the exact year it was held? The images are taken from a video shot […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
In preparation for the 2025 IBMT Annual General Meeting in Belfast, we revisit this article by the late Manus O'Riordan in which he describes how the more than 200 Irish International Brigaders overcame hostility and sectarian divisions at home to create a united fight against fascism… The sheer viciousness of the propaganda and hatred faced […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
August talk pulls in the crowds at the Shankill Road Library… On 1 August, a 70-strong audience attended the Féile Lecture 2025, organised by the IBMT-affiliated International Brigade Commemoration Committee (IBCC). The speaker this year was renowned historian Dr Brian Hanley, who spoke on the topic 'Blueshirts, and Blackshirts: fascism in Ireland north and south'. […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Robbie MacDonald looks back at two events from spring 2025…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Comments: Address given as; 31, Hazelwick Road, Three Bridges, Crawley. Sergeant. Battalion cook and political delegate in kitchen. 'Always giving his best for betterment of the battalion.' 'Has always been associated with the English kitchen from its inception. He was always painstaking in all his work for benefit of the battn. It was mainly under his guidance that the kitchen developed into the sound organisation that was the envy and example to all battalions.' George Fletcher & Jim Bourne, | International Brigade Memorial Trust
The IBMT's 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held in Belfast on Saturday 4 October as part of a weekend of commemorative and social activities from 3-5 October. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Friday 3 October 5.30pm: Arrive early at Belfast City Hall, Donegal Square North, Belfast BT1 5GS to see the famous stained-glass window dedicated to the […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Hats off in this hot summer weather to a group of Spaniards who are looking after the memorial garden for the International Brigades at Fuencarral Cemetery in Madrid. Regularly each week they visit the cemetery to| International Brigade Memorial Trust
David Grant, a former teacher and now a PhD student at the University of Leeds, introduces a new schools module focusing on women's roles in the Spanish Civil War…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Welcome to an IBMT teaching resource pack. Here you will find a four-lesson unit on the role of women during the Spanish Civil War to complement the other teaching resource on the International Brigades that can also be found on this website under the title ‘Why did so many people volunteer to fight in the Spanish Civil War?’. under the title ‘Why did so many people volunteer to fight in the Spanish Civil War?’.| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Hundreds gathered at the International Brigade memorial on London’s Southbank on 5 July for the annual commemoration of the 2,500 volunteers from Britain and Ireland who took part in the fight in Spain against fascism from 1936-39. Speakers included Gawain Little, General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, and Meirian Jump, Director of […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
History school teachers are being told about the IBMT’s new online teaching resources on the International Brigades. The June issue of Teaching History carries a feature on how to teach Year 9 school students about the| International Brigade Memorial Trust
IBMT representatives and supporters have briefed a group of parliamentarians on the work of the Trust and the Spanish Civil War’s legacy in Britain and Spain. It is hoped this will be the first of a series of sessions where MPs and peers can be kept informed of shared matters of interest to them and […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
IBMT Archivist Alan Lloyd has transcribed a letter from commissar John Gates reporting the death of Humfry Scott (1904-1937) after the Battle of Pozoblanco. The letter, dated 30 April 1937, was addressed to Humfry’s| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Clifford Thurlow explores his family's links to anti-fascism and what inspired him to write the novel ‘We Shall Pass’, set during the Spanish Civil War … When the Blackshirts marched on Cable Street in the mainly| International Brigade Memorial Trust
An international outcry has forced the Madrid city authorities to freeze plans to build a large rubbish depot on top of the unmarked graves of British and other international volunteers who fought against Franco in| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Words spoken by IBMT Chair Jim Jump at the unveiling of the memorial to the Doncaster International Brigade volunteers on 12 February… First a big thank-you to Councillor David Shaw, former councillor Tosh McDonald and everyone| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Jim Jump on the Fife coalminer, illustrator, poet and International Brigader who was ‘small in stature, large in life’ … Born on 21 August 1912 in Denbeath, Fife, Hugh Smith Sloan was the son of Elizabeth| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Historian Daniel Gray draws connections between football and the Spanish Civil War, as personified by the Basque refugee children who became footballers in England. This article was published in issue 59 of ¡No pasarán! in January| International Brigade Memorial Trust
