Dr. Ealham's research to date has focussed on the social, political and cultural dimensions of the four decades of crisis that preceded the Spanish civil war and the revolution of 1936-7. He is especially interested in left-wing and revolutionary movements, particularly Spain's mass anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements. He is also interested in the way that space and memory affect social protest. He is currently working on a social history of Spanish migrants in the United States of America, c.1855-1945.

Recent Publications

• '"Myths" and the Spanish Civil War', Journal of Contemporary History, 42 (2007), 365-76.
• 'La calle como memoria y conflicto (Barcelona, 1914-1923)', Historia, Antropología y Fuentes Orales 34 (2005), pp. 115-136.
• With Mike Richards (eds.), The Splintering of Spain: New Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
• The introductions: 'The History of a History' (vol. 1, pp. i-xiv) and 'The Life and Struggles of José Peirats' (vol. 2, pp. i-xxxi), in José Peirats, The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, 2 vols. (Hastings: Christie Books, 2001, 2005).
• 'An "Imagined Geography": Ideology, Urban Space and Protest in the Creation of Barcelona's "Chinatown", c.1835-1936', International Review of Social History, 50 (2005), pp. 373-397.
• 'The Myth of the "Maddened Crowd": Class, Culture and Space in the Revolutionary Urbanist Project in Barcelona, 1936-7', in Chris Ealham and Mike Richards (eds.), The Splintering of Spain (Cambridge, 2005).
• Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 (London: Routledge 2004). Trs. into Spanish as La lucha por Barcelona: Clase, conflicto y cultura, 1898-1937 (Madrid, 2005).
• 'The Crisis of Organised Labour: The Battle for Hegemony in the Barcelona Workers' Movement, 1930-1936', in Angel Smith (ed.), Red Barcelona (London, 2002), pp. 88-107.
• 'Class and the City: Spatial Memories of Pleasure and Danger in Barcelona, 1914-23', Oral History 29 (2001), 33-47.
• 'La "gimnasia revolucionaria" y el paro: limitaciones de la utopia anarquista en España, 1931-1937', Historiar, 5 (2000), 134-55.