Manu Valentín

Manu Valentín (Barcelona, 1978), historian and researcher, is the co-founder of Historia Familiar, a project dedicated to helping people reconstruct their past. As an independent historian, he has developed his research work from a microhistorical perspective. Specializing in the 1930s and the Second Republic, much of his studies focus on Jewish exile in Spain during the 20th century and the influence of the Comintern in Spain before the Civil War.

He is the co-author of the book Barcelona, refugio de judíos (1933-1958) (Ángulo Editorial, 2015) and the author of several works, including Voces caídas del cielo. Historia del exilio judío en Barcelona, de 1881 a 1954 (Comanegra, 2019), La ciudad y la esvástica. Fascismo y antifascismo en la Barcelona de los años treinta y cuarenta (Comanegra, 2022), and Vientos de Cambio: Historia de dos familias castellanas, Cuando la tierra ya no da nada (both at Historia Familiar, 2022). He has also written a trilogy on the Spanish Revolution, composed of Los cimientos: La Contra[R]evolución Española (1931-1936), El golpe: El derecho a la sonrisa (1933-1936), and La huida: La Barcelona de Orwell (1936-1937), all published by Ojo de Buey in 2024.