Ethel Macdonald, a working-class girl from Motherwell, became a world-renowned voice in 1936 as an embedded reporter for the Spanish Anarchist camp in Barcelona. She was a lifelong anarchist, committed to her cause, and her dispatches and broadcasts to the UK were unapologetically biased.
An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald
Ethel Macdonald, a working-class girl from Motherwell, rose to international fame in 1936 as a pioneering journalist, broadcasting from the heart of Spain's civil war and making history by reporting directly from the front lines.
