TOWARDS A HISTORY WITH MEMORY. THE HISTORICAL MEMORY IN THE PROVINCE OF PALENCIA

Abstract

In the teaching of history, memory is increasingly present as knowledge of facts that traditional sources did not collect, especially with regard to the repression and use of violence for the elimination of the vanquished. Memory gives them a voice, but not only that, also puts us before the situation of reviewing the way of making history base on the evolution of societies, without analyzing all that was sacrificed in order to suppose advancement of human civilization. Memory not only makes us reflect and review the past but becomes a method of work, research in the class. Because of oral testimonies helps to students to participate actively in the formation of their historical awareness. So they can to interpret the past and better understand the present and not commit the same atrocities in the future. Increasingly, in more provinces of Spain, we have symbolic places of memory, with memorials raised for this purposed. With them, we can carry out itineraries of memory that allow us to understand our most recent and traumatic past during the Spanish Civil War and Francoism.