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La guerra civil española: Historia, literatura, cultura popular

Historical Newspapers from the 1930's

To find Spanish newspapers for the period 1936-1939 – go to the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) catalog  and search using the “Newspapers” tab for the “Country” Spain. You will find 26 papers listed. You will then have to search each title to see if they own the years 1936-1939.

Once you find a paper and date range that you want, you will need to request the film using the Duke Document Delivery system. REQUEST THE EXACT REEL(S) YOU WANT USING THE INFORMATION FROM THE CRL CATALOG TO BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE. DON'T HESITATE TO CONTACT HOLLY ACKERMAN IF YOU NEED HELP WITH THIS.

You can also find newspapers from the era in the database

World Newspaper Archive - Latin America   This database will give you full text newspaper articles from Latin America on the subject of the Spanish Civil War.

Newspapers Online

There are two main newspaper databases that will give you CURRENT content from a range of newspapers worldwide. These are:

NexisUni 

Factiva

You can also go to the website of any newspaper that interests you and search their archives. Some papers will have the text of articles freely available, others will not. for exmaple the Spanish newspaper ABC has a special section on the Spanish Civil War

For a list of Spanish newspapers online see http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/spain.htm