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A01=Hywel Davies
Author_Hywel Davies
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JBSL
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
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Category=NL-HB
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
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Fleeing
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=234
IMPN=University of Wales Press
ISBN13=9780708323366
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20110228
POP=Wales
Price_€5 to €10
PS=Active
PUB=University of Wales Press
Subject=History
WG=272
WMM=156
Product details
- ISBN 9780708323366
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2011
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: Wales, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book tells the story of the Basque children who came to Wales during the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, with civil war raging in Spain, 3,862 Basque children fled their country. They were packed on an old cruise liner that left Bilbao for Southampton. Throughout the summer children were dispersed to camps throughout Britain. Eight of those colonies were in Wales. The welcome they received here was a mixture of hostility and kindness. In Brechfa (Carmarthenshire) there was a notorious incident that confirmed the reluctance of many to accept exiles, while elsewhere in Wales, from Caerleon to Colwyn Bay there were many examples of great generosity.
Hywel Davies is a Deputy Head Teacher at Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn, Newcastle Emlyn and authority on the Basque Refugee Children to Wales during the Spanish Civil war; he has published several articles on the subject.
