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Doing a segment on Dad Bios/Dad History. Wondering if any of these count?

Birth and death rituals in different places fascinating.

"The routine of death in Madrid [is a] well-trodden path. The dead are carted off to the the city's official morgue. ....Beautified by morticians, they are laid out... and put on public display so friends and family can make a final, posthumous visit ...with vigils going on for up to twenty-six dead, all neatly arranged in adjoining cubicles, the sanatorio bustles like a railway terminus.

The Civil War was also a bloodbath that pitted brother against brother and neighbour against neighbour. By the time the guns had stopped smoking and Franco had signed his final parte de guerra on 1 April 1939, some half a million Spaniards were dead. There are no exact figures, but it is thought that some 200,000 were executed by the two sides....

One in thirty Spanish men were dead.

Was the soldier of "Tis but a scratch" inspired by this?!!! I wonder!

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
Downey is very clearly, not a historian, and there are some factual inaccuracies so far.Also she's very, very biased-Visigoth attacks are described as people looking to expand territory,Ottoman attacks are described as despicable barbarians out for plunder,among several such very clear biases.Im still continuing with the book because it's the first I've read to deal with Isabella La Catolica

Note - this book is a locally self published book and not part of the Litsy Library. It is not the tagged book.
Written and illustrated by an amazing local artist, this book tells the tale of sinterkclaas' famous white horse. Living in a community rich with Dutch heritage, we celebrate our Dutch heritage throughout the year and especially at the holidays and at our world famous Tulip Time. This book is beautifully (cont in comments)...

Join #FoodandLit in April as we visit Cuba 🇨🇺

Keeping my goals simple: finish at least one of my current reads before starting another book 😋

#MarvellousMarch @Andrew65

We didn‘t study any Spanish history when I did my degree and I wanted to find out more about Franco‘s regime. Actually, there was only a chapter or two about that in this book, although many other aspects covered do link back to the Spanish ‘pact of forgetting‘.

In the end, the more political chapters were the least interesting; the sociological ones were fascinating, covering the Costas, flamenco, corruption, brothels, birth and death, et al.

#bookspin list for October 🙂

@TheAromaofBooks