Chris Ealham (born 1965) is a British historian and hispanist. He is specialised in the history of
anarchism in Spain
Anarchism in Spain has historically gained some support and influence, especially before Francisco Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, when it played an active political role and is considered the end of the golden age of cl ...
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Biography
Born in
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
(England) in 1965. 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.
A former lecturer at
Cardiff University
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and
Lancaster University, Ealham, based in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...
, works as lecturer at
Saint Louis University Madrid Campus. 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.
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1965 births
Living people
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
British historians
Historians of anarchism
Historians of the labour movement in Spain