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Dr Matthew Kerry – The Spanish Civil War as a Media War
June 18 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Matthew Kerry is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Oxford and Tutor at Jesus College. He is a social and cultural historian of modern Spain with a particular focus on collective action and political behaviour, and has published on a variety of topics, including boycotts, blasphemy, charivari, and radicalisation. His book Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Civil War, 1931-6 examined the origins, unfolding and repercussions of a two-week revolutionary revolt in the northern Spanish region of Asturias.