Franco's Internationalists with David Brydan (HoH Podcast – Ep, 98)

David Brydan is a lecturer in the modern history of international relations at King’s College London. He previously worked as a lecturer and researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, and received his PhD from Birkbeck in 2016. Between 2013 and 2017 he was a member of the Wellcome Trust-funded Reluctant Internationalists project at Birkbeck, and is currently a member of the Centre for the Study of Internationalism. In 2014 he was a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. He is currently a Reviews Editor for Contemporary European History.

 David’s book, Franco’s Internationalists, is available as an Open Access ebook from Oxford University Press. His twitter handle is @DavidBrydan.

Some highlights:

The Reluctant Internationalists
Center for the Study of Internationalism
Background to the Spanish Civil War
Francisco Franco's dictatorship
Why does Spain matter?
Who were Franco's internationalists?
Working with the Nazis and Italian Fascists
Measuring motivations - what evidence does one use?
Colonial Health and international imperial cooperation
Turn towards the "west"
Catholicism and Spain
Hispanidad
Exiled Republicans
Social Catholicism and religious revival
World Expos, Brussels 1958
History of transnational anticommunism
Refugees
Publishing Open Access
Wellcome Trust
Franco's exhumation
Internationalism of Nationalists
Re-emergence of the transnational Far Right

Suggestions:

David: Ronald Fraser - The Blood of Spain

Steven:  El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth