Spain
National Blackout: Fearing the Rise of Military Tension
It felt like any other day: mundane and forgettable. But within seconds, a blackout left the entire Iberian Peninsula without electricity for a whole day. A creeping fear began to grow in our author, María from Spain: wa... (more)
A Dictator Under the Bed: Portugal, Spain and the Ghost of Autocrats
As a country having lived through a dictatorship, you carry your burden - and in the best case your learnings, too. Pedro from Spain draws connections between Portugal and Spain, between family's pasts and official remem... (more)
Stitching Tradition: A Piece of Spanish History in my Grandmother’s Dress
For almost four decades, Francoism defined how to believe and behave. María from Spain remembers her grandmother, who only dressed freely after Democracy arrived...
Where Were you When…The Catalan Illegal Referendum Took Place?
Being independent from Spain or not? This question has moved Catalonia for decades. An illegeal referendum, held in 2017, was surrounded by violence and ended up in chaos: Hundreds of wounded people, the Catalan politica... (more)
Food for Thought: What my Family Trip to Morocco Taught me
Only 14 km separate Spain from Morocco. No surprise that their pasts are closely intertwined. The Muslim cultural heritage is quite visible in Spain, but negative prejudices dominate the distant relation towards the Nort... (more)
The Threads of Resilience – Experiences of 4 Women
How to endure a crisis? How to stay strong when life is tangled? Four women, four countries, four stories. What they have in common: They have taken lose strings to create something new. Because anything you've dreamed o... (more)
Catalonia: Outbreak of Illegal Nationalism or Oppression of a Democratic Movement?
People being beaten up by the police just for trying to vote, a government which declares a referendum binding even though parts of the electorate where not able to vote and a large number of ballots where confiscated, a... (more)
#callSpain: “I Don’t Have any Hopes”
What exactly is going on in Spain? What are young people thinking about their future after the second elections with open results? We decided to activate our European network and #CallSpain to ask two young voters to tel... (more)
From childhood tales to a historical research work
Author: Noelia Blas Guillén Country: Spain Competition Topic: “My Family in History” (2012) Research Title: “Tales of My Childhood.” Noelia loved the times she stayed at her grandparents and she l... (more)