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How should we remember war ? As a new virtual museum tells the story of the Spanish Civil War, Jimmy Burns looks at the place of memory in a seismic conflict (Published in The Tablet www.thetablet.co,uk 29/October/2022)   Spain limped into the third decade of the 20th century  fractured “with one half of her being, for the other half  lingered with El Cid and the conquistadores” .As Jan Morris went on to also note in The Presence of  Spain,(published in 1964) she was “a mess of a country”, tortured by  …

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