HISTAGRA presents a new lecture in the series Uncomfortable Pasts 2022-23

Next Thursday at 12 noon, historian Fernando Jiménez Herrera will present the work Los múltiples rostros de la revolución. The Madrid committees in the autumn-winter of 1936.

This conference will deal with the violence exercised in the Madrid of the first months of the civil war, when the assassinations of the revolutionary committees that arose in the first months of the coup d'état take place.

About the author:

Fernando Jiménez Herrera (Toledo, 1989) holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, 2017). He holds a BA in History (UCM, 2012) and an Interuniversity Master's Degree in Contemporary History (UCM, 2013) and a Master's Degree in Teacher Training in ESO and Bachillerato (Universidad Europea de Madrid, 2015). He is a member of several research projects funded by the Spanish Government within this university. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCM. His lines of research focus on the study of violence, revolutionary processes, workers' mobilisation, education to local history, social history, comparative history and microhistory. He currently works as Research Support Staff at the UCM.

Conference details

Date: 30/03/2023

Title: Los múltiples rostros de lana revolución. The Madrid committees in the autumn-winter of 1936.

Speaker: Fernando Jiménez Herrera

Time: 12 noon

Place: Aula 8. Faculty of Geography and History

Link to teams:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a56690ec7d7fc46979b4554097b17fd41%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=88e447bc-d5f8-46c3-bfb1-bf6fa105deee&tenantId=8f0d452c-b7a4-4964-b810-8c397374477b