Media work

Interviewed live by Jon Snow on Channel Four News, 28 June 2011, on the National Archives' release of digitised files on British volunteers for Spain [Watch the interview here]

Contributor to 'The Last of the International Brigaders,' programme on foreign volunteers in Spain, for Radio Four's Archive Hour, 26 February 2011 [Listen to a short clip]

'Other Lives' obituary for Penny Feiwel, The Guardian, 30 January 2011 [read it here]

Obituary for Joseph Kahn, international brigader and mayor, The Guardian, August 2010 [read it here]

Co-author (with Jim Jump & Angela Jackson) of ‘Antifascistas’, an exhibition and accompanying book on British and Irish volunteers and the Spanish Civil War for the International Brigade Memorial Trust, 2010 [Read the review in History Today]

Contributor on ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Documentary on family history of Fionnuala Flanagan, Mint/RTE, 2009 [watch it here]

Obituary for Bob Doyle, international brigader and shop steward, The Guardian, February 2009 [read it here]

‘For whom the bell tolls,’ CIF, The Guardian on-line, October 2008 [read it here]

Obituary for Terry Maloney, illustrator, author, astronomer and international brigader, The Guardian, April 2008 [read it here]

‘The Spanish Republic and Civil War, 1931-1939.’ On-line education module for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Association, 2007 [read it here]  

‘Volunteers from Britain and Ireland in the Spanish Civil War.’ On-line history for the International Brigade Memorial Trust, 2006 [read it here]

Obituary for George Wheeler, international brigader, Morning Star, March 2006 [read it here]

Obituary for David Marshall, International Brigader and poet, The Times, Thursday 10 November, 2005 [read it here]


Obituary for Len Crome, Chief Medical Officer of the 35 Division in Spain, The Independent, May 2001 [read it here]

Obituary for Bill Alexander, Commander of the British Battalion in Spain, The Guardian, July 2000 [read it here]