Databases
Virtual Library of Historical Press: Clandestine Press
It has among its funds a valuable collection of clandestine press, almost 90,000 pages digitized by the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries of the Ministry of Culture and Sport, through an agreement with the Foundation of Marxist Researchers, which manages the hemerographic archive of the Communist Party of Spain.
These materials are an invaluable tool for the study of the political activities of clandestine groups that opposed Franco’s regime and, in particular, those of the Communist Party and the organizations that revolved around it.
The 244 headers that make up this collection correspond to the period between 1932 and 1976 and were published in Spain, Algeria, Colombia, France, Italy, Morocco, Mexico, Russia, Venezuela, Uruguay, etc.
Virtual library of Bibliographic Heritage
Digital library in which citizens are offered a valuable and growing collection of digital facsimile reproductions of manuscripts, printed books, historical photographs, cartographic materials, sheet music and other materials that are preserved in institutions of memory (archives, library and museums) and are part of the Spanish Bibliographic Heritage.
It offers - data from March 2021 - in open and free access some 24,000 printed books, 2,500 manuscripts, 5,135 cartographic materials (atlas and maps), 84,500 graphic and photographic materials, 212 sheet music, etc.
The most valuable collection for monitoring the Civil War and subsequent repression is the Photo Gallery, which compiles the photographic archives of other collaborating institutions (Historical Heritage Photo Gallery, Foundation for the Ethnography and Development of Canarian Handicrafts or Galician Camilo José Cela Public Foundation).
Portal of access to the digital heritage and the national aggregator of contents to Europeana. It gathers the digital collections of Spanish archives, libraries and museums, as of June 2021 it contains 9,269,511 digital objects from 226 repositories. Among the collections collected, the institutional repositories of the Spanish universities and the digital libraries of the Autonomous Communities stand out, which offer access to growing sets of all kinds of materials (manuscripts, printed books, photographs, maps...) of the Spanish Bibliographic Heritage. If a search is made by Guerra Civil Española, it returns 69,709 results.
