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Records of the Spanish Relief Committee, including minutes, correspondence, circulars, extracts from the diary of Una Wilson, a volunteer nurse sent to Spain by the SRC, photographs and printed material; case files of the legal firm Christian Jollie Smith & Co relating to the Rothbury Miners’ Riot Case, 1930, and the Newtown and Glebe Eviction Riot Case, 1931. Jollie Smith, a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia, was acting for the International Class War Prisoners Aid in these cases.

Signed: Renau, 1938. SubPro.

Sam Aarons (centre), no shirt and cigarette in mouth. Photograph taken by Sefton Delmer, an Australian journalist who was correspondent for the Daily Express. Published in Daily Express 13 Aug 1937. Newspaper caption identified Frank Graham of Sunderland (wearing glasses) and "A Londoner named Auverghinos" (correct spelling Avgherinos). Jack Shaw (nee Schuckman) has also been identified in the photograph as "third from the left half reclining and smiling."

Between 1937 and 1938 the Spanish Relief Committee, Sydney, donated seven ambulances, at a cost of approximately 300 pounds each, to the Spanish Government to aid victims of fascist aggression during the Civil War, 1936-1939. The Australian Council of Trade Unions also made appeals for humanitarian assistance during the Civil War in Spain.

Between 1937 and 1938 the Spanish Relief Committee, Sydney, donated seven ambulances, at a cost of approximately 300 pounds each, to the Spanish Government to aid victims of fascist aggression during the Civil War, 1936-1939. The Australian Council of Trade Unions also made appeals for humanitarian assistance during the Civil War in Spain.

Between 1937 and 1938 the Spanish Relief Committee, Sydney, donated seven ambulances, at a cost of approximately 300 pounds each, to the Spanish Government to aid victims of fascist aggression during the Civil War, 1936-1939. The Australian Council of Trade Unions also made appeals for humanitarian assistance during the Civil War in Spain.

L-R: Phil Thorne (Secretary, SRC), Betty Thorne (SRC), Eunice Flemming (nee Thorne and one of Phil Thorne's sisters), Don McLean (Assistant Secretary, SRC).

Inscribed on verso: 'Taken an hour after we received your cable that the money was available. Note the pleased smiles.'

Sent to Spain by the Spanish Relief Committee, 1936; returned to Australia 1939.

L-R: Jack Hartley (Hurstville, ALP), Phil Thorne (SRC), Sister Shadbolt (from NZ), Mrs Harrison (SRC), Betty Thorne (SRC), Jack Fullerton (SRC), Sister Dodds (from NZ).

Signed: Renau, 1938. SubPro.

Phil Thorne identified.

Concerns credits to the Spanish Government for the purpose of purchasing Australian primary products.

Constancia de la Mora, an aristocratic Spanish, strongly supported the Republican cause during the Civil War, 1936-1939. This item includes an extract from her autobiography.

Concerns permission to collect in the Sydney Domain.

Correspondence with Australian Commonwealth Government, Australian League of Nations Union, NSW Council for the Relief of Spanish Distress, United Associations of Women, YMCA, Joyce Metcalf and others, together with copies of minutes of Executive meetings at the Joint Spanish Refugee Council.

Comprises correspondence with international relief committees, including 1. El Socorro Rojo Internacional (SRI) (international Popular Aid), Valencia. -- 2. Comité international de coordination et d'information pour l'aide à l'Espagne républicaine, Paris. -- 3. Centrale Sanitaire Internationale, Paris. -- 4. Office International pour l'Enfance, Paris.

Correspondence with Senor Rickardo Baeza, together with copies of his address in 1936 and his report to a Spanish Relief Committee conference in 1937.

Comprises correspondence from Agnes Hodgson, Mary Lowson, May MacFarlane and Una Wilson whilst in Spain, together with correspondence and other papers relating to their return to Australia and a subsequent lecture tour.

Comprises correspondence with with Una Wilson, J.B. Miles, Albert Thompson, Brother Augustus, Eric Andrews, Freda Brown, Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Mitchell Library, Lenin State Library, Helen Rogers, Amirah Inglis, Agnes Tonkin (nee Hodgson) SPA and others.

Also includes minutes of Executive Committee meetings.

Also includes minutes of Executive Committee meetings.

Contains letters written by Mary Lowson (1936-1937), Mary Macfarlane (1937-1938), Una Wilson (1938), three of the four members of the Australian Nursing Unit the Spanish Relief Committee sent to Spain,1936-1938.

Includes: 1. Speech of Dr Negrin, Prime Minister of Spain, 10 June 1938. -- 2. A biography of Dr Juan Negrin. -- 3. Two years in Spain. -- 4. Two years of war in Spain against the Italo-German Army. -- 5. Fascism and irreligion / by Father Leocardio Lobo. -- 6. Open letter to the editor,The Times, signed by Father Leocardio Lobo. -- 7. The Republic's work in the field of culture. -- 8. The Spanish People's Army. -- 9. The Ebro offensive. -- 10. Towards a final victory. -- 11. Copy of Father Leocardio Lobo's letter to Mr J Kirwan, Dublin.