Chris Ealham

Chris Ealham (born 1965) is an English historian and Hispanist. He specialises in the history of anarchism in Spain. His work has been translated into Castilian, Catalan and Italian. He writes for the Spanish daily and anarchist press on topics which range from football to urban planning. Biography Ealham was born in Kent, England, in 1965. He initially obtained B.A. in Modern History and Politics from the Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. In 1995 he followed this with his PhD from the same university with his dissertation Policing the Recession: Unemployment, Social Protest and Law-and-Order in Republican Barcelona, 1930-1936, which was supervised by Paul Preston, the English historian and Hispanist.

Ealham was initially employed in Cardiff University, Wales, where he lectured on contemporary Spanish History in the School of European Studies. He was then employed as a lecturer in the Department of History in Lancaster University, England. He is currently employed as a lecturer in the Madrid Campus of the Saint Louis University in Spain. He contributes to the often-acrimonious historiography of the Spanish Civil War, arguing that populist historians have promoted pro-Franco revisionism in the discipline.

Publications Articles 1990s 1993. 1994. 1995. 1998. 2000s 2005a. 2007. 2008a. 2008b. 2009a. 2009b. 2010s 2013a. 2013b. 2014a. 2014b. 2016. 2017. 2020s 2022. 2024.

Contributions 2013. 2019.

Editorships 2001. 2005a. 2005b. With 2006.

Books 2005b. 2010. 2015.