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Chris Ealham (born 1965) is a British historian and hispanist. He is specialised in the history of anarchism in Spain.
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| Born | 1965 (age 56) Kent |
Chris Ealham (born 1965) is a British historian and hispanist. He is specialised in the history of anarchism in Spain.
Born in Kent (England) in 1965. [1] [2] He earned a PhD in 1995 from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, reading a dissertation titled Policing the Recession: Unemployment, Social Protest and Law-and-Order in Republican Barcelona, 1930-1936, supervised by Paul Preston. [3] [4]
A former lecturer at Cardiff University and Lancaster University, Ealham, based in Madrid, works as lecturer at Saint Louis University Madrid Campus. [5] A partaker in the often acrimonious debate on Spanish civil war historiography, Ealham argues populist historians have set in motion a pro-Franco revisionism in Civil War studies. [6]
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