Chris Ealham
# Chris Ealham

Chris Ealham (born 1965) is a British historian and hispanist. He is specialised in the history of anarchism in Spain.

## Biography

Born in Kent (England) in 1965. He earned a PhD in 1995 from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, reading a dissertation titled Policing the Recession: Unemployment, Social Protest and Law-and-Order in Republican Barcelona, 1930-1936, supervised by Paul Preston.

A former lecturer at Cardiff University and Lancaster University, Ealham, based in Madrid, works as lecturer at Saint Louis University Madrid Campus. A partaker in the often acrimonious debate on Spanish civil war historiography, Ealham argues populist historians have set in motion a pro-Franco revisionism in Civil War studies.

## Works

### Author

* La lucha por la ciudad: clase, cultura y conflicto social en Barcelona, 1898-1937 (in Spanish). Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 2005.
* Anarchism and the city: Revolution and counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937. Oakland: AK Press. 2010.
* Barcelone contre ses habitants 1835–1937, quartiers ouvriers de la revolution (in French). Toulouse: Collectif des Métiers De l’Édition. 2014.
* Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement. Oakland: AK Press. 2015.
   * Vivir la anarquía, vivir la utopía. José Peirats y la historia del anarcosindicalismo español. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 2016.
* Les anarchistes dans la ville: révolution et contre-révolution à Barcelone, 1898-1937 (in French). Marseille: Éditions Agone. 2021.

### Editor

* Ealham, Chris; Richards, Michael, eds. (2005). The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press.
