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“Basques in the Atlantic World, 1450-1824”: An Approach to Basque History...

Today, we'd like to bring you a work by Xabier Lamikiz, professor at the Department of Public Policy and Economic History at the University of...

Aboitiz & Company: 100 years of a Basque company from the...

Aboitiz Old Cebu Building-Aboitiz & Co.’s first headquarters, in a modest two-story building on Juan Luna Street in the heart of Cebu City.
One of the largest industrial conglomerates in the Philippines, Aboitiz & Co., is turning 100. Philippine daily 'Inquirer' tells the story of this Basque family saga

The accordion is strengthening the Basque community in Idaho, helping to...

Ansotegui’s band, Amuma Says No, performed at the Idaho Botanical Gardens in August.
Boise State Public Radio (part of the NPR network) has published an article by Arlie Sommer discussing the power of music and dance as integrating...

Euskal Herriko Dantzari Eguna 2020. #HerritikMundura, or #MundutikMundura?

Saint Pierre et Miquelon  celebra Euskal Herriko Dantzari Eguna 2020
(Basque Country Dancers' Day 2020: #FromtheCountrytotheWorld, or #FromtheWorldtotheWorld ?) On Saturday, October 3, the 2020 Euskal Herriko Dantzari Eguna (EHDE2020 (Basque Country Dance Day)) was held. ...

Basque emigrants didn’t travel on rafts, but many were tricked and...

Representación del hundimiento del velero Leopoldina Rosa
Alberto Moroy is an old, and esteemed, friend to the blog.  He writes for the Uruguayan newspaper El País, publishing fantastic articles on the...

Contributions of the Basque Exiles to Mexican Architecture…Or Something Else Francoism...

Arturo Sáenz de la Calzada. Librería de Cristal in the canopies of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1940. © Saénz de la Calzada Aguado family Archive. Courtesy of Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes.
A while back, we wrote an article about the contributions made in Venezuela by Basque architects who had been forced to feel the dictatorship...

The Day of the Basque Diaspora: The Lehendakari commits to all...

Acto oficial del Día de la Diáspora Vasca 2020
Yesterday, September 8, the institutional event for the third annual Day of the Basque Diaspora was held with a live speech by Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu,...

Day of the Basque Diaspora 2020. An impassioned Passionist...

Mensaje del Obispo del Vicariato de Yurimaguas, Jesús María Aristín, en el Día de la Diáspora Vasca 2020. jpg
As we mentioned in the blog entry where we presented the events that will be held in the Day of the Basque Diaspora 2020, the...

The celebration of this year’s Day of the Diaspora will be...

Día de la Diáspora Vasca 2020
Given the trying times brought upon us by COVID-19, the third Day of the Diaspora, which is held on September 8, is going to be...

Jiří Popper, the young Jew killed at Auschwitz wearing a Real Sociedad...

El joven checoslovaco de etnia judía Jiri Popper con un pin del escudo de la Real Sociedad de San Sebastián. (Holocaust.cz)
Yesterday, as every day, the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum shared a photo on Twitter of one of the people killed at that concentration and...