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HISTAGRA collaborates on the film San Simon

HISTAGRA collaborates on the film San Simon The HISTAGRA group is collaborating as an advisory team on the film San Simón, written and directed by Miguel Ángel Delgado, a filmmaker from La Mancha. The story is set in October 1936. Franco's regime creates more than three hundred concentration camps throughout Spain: convents, factories, schools, bullrings, monasteries and other ‘closed’ spaces. San Simón stands out for its insularity. The regime turns the former leper colony into a place of death where prisoners suffer repression surrounded by overwhelming beauty. Seven years later, Lamas, a prisoner on the island, recalls the story of the men and women who, like himself, suffered repression in this small enclave on the Galician coast. The film ‘San Simón’, directed by Miguel...
  • Galicia Democratic Memory Plan 2025–2028

    Launch of the Galician Democratic Memory Plan for 2025 Last September, the Regional Government of Galicia and the University of Santiago signed an agreement to develop the Galician Democratic Memory Plan for 2025. Once again, as in the previous four-year period, HISTAGRA is leading a team...
  • HISTAGRA at Rural History 2025

    HISTAGRA researchers participate in the 7th Biennial Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) The 7th Biennial Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) will be held in Coimbra from 9 to 12 September 2025, organised by the University of Coimbra. For...
  • The HISTAGRA 2025-2026 lecture series returns

    Lecture by Dionisio Pereira: book presentation: Franco's repression in Al Hoceima and the Central Rif during the Spanish Civil WarWe begin the 2025-2026 academic year with a new lecture in HISTAGRA's Uncomfortable Past series. On this occasion, researcher Dionisio Pereira presents his latest publica...