Its purpose is to gather, catalog and preserve bibliographic funds, it preserves around thirty million publications produced in the national territory since the beginning of the eighteenth century, we can find books, magazines, maps, engravings, drawings, sheet music and brochures. To carry out the searches we recommend the use of the tool Hispanic Digital Library, free and free portal of digitized documents of the Library, composed of different collections.
Databases
It contains documents that record the voices of the past of prominent personalities (politicians, scientists, artists and literary figures). Among other collections, they highlight the one of songs and speeches of the civil war.
Drawings of the children of war
A collection made up of 1,171 children’s drawings in wartime, it was acquired from a Catalan bookseller for its important historical value, since these are drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by children evacuated to colonies far from the fronts of struggle, located on the Mediterranean coast or in the south of France.
There are 10 records of concentration camps mounted by the uprising side.
Collection of photographs from the Civil War (1936-1939)
1,843 records appear, each describing boxes or folders containing images, in total 11,000 photographs.
It is part of the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica project, created in March 2007 to provide public access to the digital collection of Spanish magazines and historical press that houses the Library, with an initial collection composed of 143 press titles and magazines.
Prisoners during the Civil War (1936-1939)
Returns 78 records if a search is performed.
Virtual exposures
80th anniversary of Azaña’s death in exile
The exhibition aims to provide a complete image of Manuel Azaña, in his triple dimension: human, intellectual and political, highlighting, in addition to his work as Minister, Head of the Government and President of the Republic, his status as an intellectual of prestige, as well as the harsh conditions of his exile, which ended with his death in the French city of Montauban, where his memory remains present eighty years later.
Research pathways
- Oral archive
- Biographies
- Concentration camps
- Spanish exile
- Spanish Civil War
- Childhood
- Photography
- Repression
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