Chris Ealham
Chris Ealham is an English historian and Hispanist. He specialises in the history of anarchism in Spain. His work has been translated into Castilian, Catalan and Italian. He writes for the Spanish daily and anarchist press on topics which range from soccer to urban planning.
Biography
Ealham was born in Kent, England, in 1965. He obtained his PhD in 1995 from the Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London with his dissertation Policing the Recession: Unemployment, Social Protest and Law-and-Order in Republican Barcelona, 1930-1936, which was supervised by Paul Preston, the English historian and Hispanist.Ealham initially worked as a lecturer at Cardiff University, Wales and Lancaster University, England. He currently works as a lecturer in the Madrid Campus of the Saint Louis University in Spain. He participates in the often acrimonious historiography of the Spanish Civil War, arguing that populist historians have promoted pro-Franco revisionism in the discipline.
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