Two years ago I found a postcard in a box at a flea market. At that moment, I didn't pay much attention to the content, but his postcard was different from the rest. A portrait of a lady was framed by a few lines of text that caught my attention: «Contéstame a Lista de Correos o al Hotel ...»

La buena esposa

Between 1939 and 1975, the franquismo, hand in hand with the national-catolicismo, encouraged a model of a women that permeated in society, based on the ideal of...

Victorina -29 years old- was murdered in June 1889, during the night, at home, in her bedroom, by her husband Mariano -47 years old- during an argument in which he accused...


The hora nona is the ninth hour after sunrise. Between 1615 and 1617 there were a series of frosts and hailstorms that lasted weeks and flooded crops that led to the so-called in Catalonia any del diluvi....

El año que duró 14 meses y 1 día

On May 13, 1913 the press announced the death of a female inmate in the Reina Amalia prison in the city of Barcelona. She had been imprisoned since...

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The names of Josefa, Felisa, Mariana, Amparo, Antonia, Teresa, Francisca, Enriqueta, Tomasa or Cecilia, among others, came up in the news of the spanish press during the...

L’alphabet de la route Morning calls

Room 612. Sheltered

Happy life

 

A woman and her family had been kicked out of their home. Another family had taken possession of its walls. For weeks, she along with members...