Chris Ealham
Born	1965  Kent

Chris Ealham (born 1965) is an English historian and Hispanist. He specialises in the history of anarchism in Spain. His work has been translated into Castilian, Catalan and Italian.^[1] He writes for the Spanish daily and anarchist press on topics which range from soccer to urban planning.^[1]

Ealham was born in Kent, England, in 1965.^[2][3] He obtained his PhD in 1995 from the Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London with his dissertation Policing the Recession: Unemployment, Social Protest and Law-and-Order in Republican Barcelona, 1930-1936, which was supervised by Paul Preston, the English historian and Hispanist.^[4][5]

Ealham initially worked as a lecturer at Cardiff University, Wales and Lancaster University, England. He currently works as a lecturer in the Madrid Campus of the Saint Louis University in Spain.^[6] He participates in the often acrimonious historiography of the Spanish Civil War, arguing that populist historians have promoted pro-Franco revisionism in the discipline.^[7]

• Ealham, Chris (2005). La lucha por la ciudad: clase, cultura y conflicto social en Barcelona, 1898-1937 (in Spanish). Madrid: Alianza Editorial.^[8]
• — (2010). Anarchism and the city. Oakland, CA: AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-012-9.^[9]
• — (2014). Barcelone contre ses habitants 1835–1937, quartiers ouvriers de la revolution (in French). Toulouse: Collectif des Métiers De l’Édition.
• — (2015). Living anarchism José Peirrats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement. Oakland, California: AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-238-3. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
• — (2016). Vivir la anarquía, vivir la utopía. José Peirats y la historia del anarcosindicalismo español. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.^[10][11][12]
• — (2021). Les anarchistes dans la ville: révolution et contre-révolution à Barcelone, 1898-1937 (in French). Marseille: Éditions Agone.

• Valls, José Peirats (2001). The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, Volume 1. Hastings, East Sussex: The Meltzer Press. ISBN 1-901172-07-4. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
• Valls, José Peirats (2005). The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, Volume 2. Hastings, East Sussex: Christie Books. ISBN 1-873976-24-0. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
• Valls, José Peirats (2006). The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, Volume 3. Hastings, East Sussex: Christie Books. ISBN 1-873976-29-1. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
• With Richards, Michael (2005). The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press.^[13]

• Burrowes, Darryl Anthony (2016). Historians at War Cold War influences on Anglo-American representations of the Spanish Civil War (PhD thesis). Flinders University. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
• Evans, Danny (2016). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". European History Quarterly. 46 (4): 727–728. doi:10.1177/0265691416658234l. ISSN 0265-6914. S2CID 152033254.
• Hernández, Óscar Freán (2018). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". Journal of Social History. 52 (1): 201–203. doi:10.1093/jsh/shx007. ISSN 0022-4529.
• Freán Hernández, Oscar (2016). "Chris Ealham, Vivir la anarquía, vivir la utopía. José Peirats y la historia del anarcosindicalismo español, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2015". Cahiers de civilisation espagnole contemporaine (17). doi:10.4000/ccec.6359. ISSN 1957-7761.
• Gorostiza, Santiago (2012). "Ealham, Chris. Anarchism and the city: Revolution and counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937 Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2010, 263 p." (PDF). Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica. 58 (2). Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 327–329. doi:10.5565/rev/dag.180. ISBN 978-1-84935-012-9. ISSN 0212-1573.
• Greene, Nathanael (2006). "The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Ealham, Chris, and Michael Richards, eds.: New York: Cambridge University Press, 282 pp". History: Reviews of New Books. 34 (3). doi:10.1080/03612759.2006.10526884. S2CID 143802016.
• Guirao, Pedro García (2018). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement; Goals and Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federacion Anarquista Iberica". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 12 (2): 188–192. doi:10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0188. ISSN 1930-1189. JSTOR 10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0188.
• Hoyos, Francisco Martínez (2016). "Review of Vivir La Anarquía, Vivir La Utopía". El Ciervo. 65 (756): 44. ISSN 0045-6896. JSTOR 26359989.
• Miguel Capell, Jordi de (3 May 2016). "Chris Ealham, historiador. "Encara fa por la paraula 'anarquisme': els pànics morals segueixen influint"" (PDF). La Directa: 12–15.
• Martínez, Guillem (12 June 2016). "Chris Ealham / Hispanista. "No creo que Podemos ofrezca gran cosa nueva"". CTXT.
• Ortiz, David (2016). "Rev. of Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham". Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. 41 (1). doi:10.26431/0739-182X.1237 (inactive October 18, 2025). ISSN 0739-182X.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of October 2025 (link)
• Rey Reguillo, Fernando del (2007). "Chris Ealham: La lucha por Barcelona. Clase, cultura y conflicto, 1898-1937, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2005, 381 páginas". Historia y Política (17). Madrid: UCM; CEPC; UNED: 264–270. ISSN 1575-0361.
• Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. (2014). "Investigando el laberinto español en el Reino Unido" (PDF). Stvdia Historica: Historia Contemporánea (32). Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca: 451–462.
• Vadillo Muñoz, Julián (2017). "Recensiones". Hispania Nova (15). Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. doi:10.20318/hn.2017.3503.

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