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Presentation of the results of the Vilacoba-Lousame Trench

Presentation of the results of the Vilacoba-Lousame mass grave within the Galician Democratic Memory Plan 2021-2024 Tomorrow Thursday at 12:30 the results will be presented to relatives and authorities regarding the work carried out in the mass grave in the Vilacoba-Lousame cemetery in 2022. On this occasion, the search was for Manuel García Hermo, murdered on 30 August 1936. Previous investigations, carried out by the research group Histagra, on the victims and the space indicated, at first, the possibility of finding five people buried: Manuel García Hermo, Perfecto Félix Vilas Romero, his brother, Antonio, María Josefa Becerra Laíño and Avelino Méndez Suárez. All of them were killed as a result of "paseos" at different times in the rearguard: at the end of August 1936, at...
  • Web renovation nomesevoces.net

    HISTAGRA renews the website https://www.nomesevoces.net/ The HISTAGRA Research Group, responsible for content and maintenance of the nomesevoces.net website, presents the new page, updated in content and with new proposals, where the section dedicated to the Democratic Memory Plan 2021-2024 sta...
  • Presentation of the results of the exhumation of the Celanova grave

    Presentation of the results of the work of the exhumation of the Celanova Grave  The team of historians, archaeologists, forensic scientists and geneticists in charge of the intervention in the Celanova cemetery grave, within the Democratic Memory Plan 2022, will present the results of the...
  • HISTAGRA at the Follas Novas Galician Book Awards 2023

    Daniela Ferrández, HISTAGRA researcher, awarded as best essay in 2023 HISTAGRA researcher Daniela Ferrández, author of the work A defunción dos sexos. Disidentes sexuais na Galiza contemporánea, has been awarded the Follas Novas del libro Gallego 2023 prize for best essay 2023. A defunción...
  • Finalisation of the work on the Democratic Memory Plan 2022

    The Working Group of the Plan of Democratic Memory ends with the investigation of 2022 The working group formed by historians, archaeologists, forensic experts and geneticists are about to finalise and close the files relating to the work undertaken in Celanova, A Capela and Vilacoba (Lousame)...
  • Conference Uncomfortable Pasts: Crossroads of Memory and Forgetting

    Lecture of the Cycle Uncomfortable Pasts: Crosses of Memory and Oblivion: the monuments to the fallen and the memory of the Spanish Civil War (1936-2022), Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco. Next Thursday 20 April at 12 noon, a new conference of the HISTAGRA Uncomfortable Pasts Cycle will take place....