The anti-francoist fight, documented in the UB
On January 1969, a group of students showed their opposition against the Franco regime in the University of Barcelona. According to El Diario de Barcelona, the group “assaulted the Rectorʼs Office, attacked the Rector and threw the effigy of the head of state and the national flag through the window”.
On January 1969, a group of students showed their opposition against the Franco regime in the University of Barcelona. According to El Diario de Barcelona, the group “assaulted the Rectorʼs Office, attacked the Rector and threw the effigy of the head of state and the national flag through the window”.
This year, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of those acts, the Records Office of the University of Barcelona has prepared an online exhibition with some authentic documents on a period known for political and social tensions, inside and outside the University. “La lluita antifranquista a la Universitat de Barcelona a lʼentorn de 1969” is the title of this exhibition, which offers textual and graphic information on several conflicts that occurred in the University during the rectorsʼ mandates of Francisco García Valdecasas (1965-1968) and Manuel Albaladejo García (1968-1969).
One of the most relevant historic events that took place at that time was the Caputxinada, which names the clandestine constitution, in 1966, of Sindicat Democràtic dʼEstudiants (studentsʼ democratic syndicate) of the University of Barcelona (SDEUB). The constitutional assembly of this syndicate took place in the convent Caputxins de Sarrià, and gathered students, lecturers and many intellectuals. The new online exhibition of the Records Office of the UB includes documents going from the foundational act of SDEUB to some photographs of demands against the rector and a certificate for a studentʼs good behaviour, written by la Falange.
This exhibition, open to the public through any device with internet access, responds to the will of selecting some documents to show what the Franco dictatorship meant for the University of Barcelona, regarding both internal structures and social movements that occurred within the faculties.
The Records Office of the UB guards and preserves documentation on the activity of the University of Barcelona over its history, aiming to provide access to this documentary heritage and to put it at peopleʼs reach.