A new play has been created based on the lives of four men from South Yorkshire who took part in the Spanish Civil War. Michael Crossland reports.
In February of 1937, Tommy James left his hometown of Rotherham to head for Spain. Three months prior, General Francisco Franco had launched a siege on Republican-controlled Madrid which would last two-and-a-half years. the Spanish Civil War was underway, and, aged 40, Tommy had gone to fight. Born in November of 1897, Tommy and his then 16 year-old mother spent the first two years of his life in a Rotherham workhouse, where Tommy would return intermittently throughout his early years.
“They are fascinating people,” says researcher Dave Phillips. “I traced them all in the censuses, and all of them came from large, poor families of miners. In 1921 they were all unemployed, and that, I think, is what gave them the passion to fight against inequality, and against fascism.” Joseph Maiden, the son of a mineworker, is among the men featured. He left Rotherham to join the Spanish Civil War in February 1938.
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