This Wednesday, 14 October at 2pm, there is the next free talk in their autumn series: Nat, Sam and Ramona – the story of a Spanish Civil War photograph.
This talk by Marshall Mateer is based on new research from items in the WCML archive.
This is the story of three volunteers – Nat Cohen, Sam Masters and Ramona Siles Garcia – during the early months of the Spanish Civil War in 1936; the 1930s and why they went to the front; their contact with other volunteers including Felicia Browne, Tom Wintringham and the Tom Mann Centuria; being wounded, the British Medical Unit at Grañén and being sent back to London.
Sam Masters’s death at Brunete in 1937; Nat and Ramona’s later life; and the nature of photography and memory.
The talks series carries on as follows:
28 October Tim Dunbar Guernica
11 November Michael Herbert Doctor Who and the Communist: the writing career and politics of Malcolm Hulke
