I’m planning a research trip in June and I’m wondering if anyone has been to the International Centre for Research into Anarchism in Lausanne, or the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. I’m also hoping to get to Barcelona and am interested in collections there, for example the Centre d'Estudis Josep Ester Borràs.
My research interests are the economic and social organisation of villages in Aragon (especially around Fraga) during the revolution, and the experiences of the CNT/ FAI members who were stranded in the USSR at the end of the Civil War, and subsequently imprisoned in the Karaganda gulag. I am especially interested in images of everyday life, living conditions, agrigultural production, popular culture, etc.
Anybody got any tips for particularly useful resources and/ or advice for visiting the above centres (I only speak English but I’m travelling with a friend who habla el Spicko)? How available are documents/ books – is it advisable/ necessary to give advance notification of what you want to see? Anybody know much about the Centre d'Estudis Josep Ester Borràs? Finally, anybody know of contemporary libertarian activity in Huesca province?
Cheers!
