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“Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies” bring euskera to London

Harry Bird & The Rubber Wellies
A couple of years ago we wrote about a group of folk that lives between Dublin and Bilbao, and which was a great discovery...

British sailors who were witnesses to the Bombing of Guernica

Ruins of Guernica. Photo by Norman Ramsey
This article was translated by John R. Bopp First article in a series of three we’re dedicating to the posts by Sarah Richarson in the Tyne & Wear...

The embarrassing “Tortilla de Vitoria” (Vitorian Omelet) affair. A never-ending story

This article was tranlated by Iustrans The bizarre story of the "world's largest potato omelet", an initiative launched by Vitoria’s city hall on August 2,...

Truths and lies about the 1937 Bombing of Guernica

composición fotográfica publicado por la revista Volks Illustrierte en su nº 22 de 2 junio 1937. Obra del artista alemán John Heartfield.
This article was translated by John R. Bopp As every year, we’ve written a lengthy article on the commemoration of the Bombing of Guernica, which took...

“A Basque woman is a very particular type of woman”

Artículo sobre lecciones aprendidas en el Pais vasco
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Kia Marie Hunt is a student of Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese at the University of Birmingham (which we’ve...

Matthew C Klein, a recommendation: Don’t write about what you don’t...

Matthew C. Klein is a brilliant, well-educated young man from Chicago who has the huge opportunity, and responsibility, to be able to write his...

An “Unnamed Peak” in Nepal has been conquered by a Basque...

La ruta "Burning Kharkas" hasta la cima del "pico sin Nombre" en el Himalaya nepalí
  It seems incredible that in the day and age of Google Maps and “we can see the front door of any house in the...

The “Basque Boys” who triumphed at soccer at King Arthur’s Court

We'd like to bring you this moving story of the Basque War Children, who took refuge in Wales and created a soccer team

The color “Basque red” also exists in the English-speaking world

There's also a shade of red in the US and Great Britain with the same name, just translated into English: "Basque red"

The British San Sebastian, 1921 (photos)

The Britain from Above website is a project which is trying to preserve 95,000 of the oldest and most valuable photos in the Aerofilms...