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General Archive of the Administration

The safeguarded funds have mostly been produced by the activity of public agencies in the field of the Central Administration. They highlight the funds and documentary series aimed at internal repression and the subsequent control of citizens not affected by the Franco regime.

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Note: The hyperlinks link to the descriptive tab that appears in PAIRS 2.0.

The documentary control and repression bodies of the internal opposition can be classified as follows:

Administrative Control Agencies: As a result of the Civil War, different purification bodies were created in all the Ministerial Departments, therefore the data of the separation of the public service can be traced through...

  • Dossiers of political responsibilities
  • Files on the purification of officials

Agencies of judicial control and repression: in this area belong several special jurisdictions that disappeared during the Transition...

Jurisdictional Bodies: with the documentation of the Courts of First Instance and Instruction and Municipal of the Province of Madrid, where there are files related to the non-recognition after the Civil War of judicial decisions in matters of rights and freedoms, later annulled (among others, the firm judgments of divorce issued during the republican period).

Diplomatic and Consular Organs of the Foreign Service, with exile control actions. The documentary funds of diplomatic representations in France, Great Britain, the United States, Belgium, Switzerland and all diplomatic representations in the Ibero-American sphere are relevant, with the Embassy of Spain in Mexico containing all the documentation of the diplomatic representations of the Government of the Republic in exile.

Databases

Photo archive of the Propaganda Delegation of Madrid during the Civil War

It discloses the photographic background of the Junta de Defensa de Madrid, composed of 3,051 images, made in black and white and mounted on cardboard supports, as was usual for the time. The documentary units that compose it are organized by thematic categories, following the original inventories.

Census guide of Archives of Spain and Latin America

Online guide to public and private archives, collections and collections in Spain and Latin America.

Collective catalogue of the CIDA Library Network and the State Archives managed by the Ministry of Culture

It collects bibliographic descriptions of the funds of the specialized libraries of the State Archives and the Documentary Archives Information Center.

Guide to documentary sources of archives relating to the Spanish Civil War

Thematic database of documents from public and private archives in Spain and from European and Ibero-American countries. It offers 48,422 records.

PAIRS 2.0

Database containing descriptive sheets and digitized images of documents preserved in the State Archives.

Portal of Ibero-American Migratory Movements

It facilitates access to the documentary funds relating to Spanish emigration to Ibero-America in the contemporary era, the result of intense work of cooperation between several Spanish and Ibero-American archives. Of great importance for the knowledge of the Spanish exile on the occasion of the Spanish Civil War. Countries like Mexico will welcome and rescue between fifteen and twenty thousand Spanish republican exiles from France’s refugee camps.

Virtual exposures

Special mailbox: Prison deeds, exile and postal censorship.

The General Administration Archive (AGA) houses much of the institutional memory of the last century, especially that of the central organs of the State. Among the thousands of files generated by public activity, and preserved by the AGA, we can find, hidden, the most direct memory of ordinary people through their requests and letters. These popular writing elements integrated into the official documentation allow you to integrate your direct experience into the historical narrative. Reading the letters made by people in terrible times, such as wars or dictatorships, allows us to “hear” directly the voice and whispers of the past, and more if they have been censored or confiscated. Special Mailbox rescues the testimony of the people that the State has placed at the extremes: prison, exile and surveillance.

Official Azaña

This portal highlights the figure of Manuel Azaña for other facets of his life in the period before his leap to the palestra of high politics as an official of the Ministry of Grace and Justice between 1910 and 1931. The exhibition shares several dossiers where Manuel Azaña intervenes in his capacity as Head of the Third Section and a collection of images from the Graphic Press. This documentation is kept by the General Archives of the Administration.

Research pathways

  • Judicial control and repression.
  • Purge of officials.
  • Exile.
  • Public order.
  • Political responsibilities.

Contact Address

C/ Paseo de Aguadores, 2.

28871 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

Phone number: +34 91 889 29 50

Email: aga@cultura.gob.es

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