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How much do you know about important historic women who went to UCL? Most of us have heard over and over that the likes of Alexander Graham Bell and Christopher Nolan went to UCL. But how many historic women are featured on famous alumni lists? Women have always made valuable contributions to the world through
International Brigades, groups of foreign volunteers who fought on the Republican side against the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). So called because their members (initially) came from some 50 countries, the International Brigades were recruited, organized, and directed by the Comintern (Communist International), with headquarters in Paris. A large number of the mostly young recruits were Communists before they became involved in the conflict; more joined the party during the course of the war. The French were the largest single foreign group (some 28,000); Germany, Austria, Poland, Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Canada,