THE Spanish Civil War has fascinated historians and the politically minded for nearly nine decades and most Scots with an interest in the subject will know that hundreds of Scottish people volunteered to fight in Spain while many thousands more took part in fundraising efforts on home soil.
While a small minority in Scotland backed Franco and his fascist Nationalists, the vast majority of Scots supported the Republicans. Now the latter’s stories are being detailed as never before in a new book by historian Dr Fraser Raeburn, who teaches modern European history at Sheffield University.
