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Henry Buckley
Henry Buckley (Manchester, 1904 - Sitges, 1973) was a British photojournalist of Irish origin, correspondent who covered the Republic and the Spanish Civil War between 1929 and 1939.

He came from an Anglo-Irish family. His father emigrated from Ireland, Cork, to Manchester; eventually married Catherine Woodroffe and settled at Whaley-Bridge, near Manchester. Buckley went to the University of Reading with the intention of graduating in Business and traveling to Germany as a businessman. Soon, however, he realized that Europe was in the midst of social strife and decided to become a journalist to tell the world what was happening.

Professional life
His first appointment as a war correspondent was in Paris and, as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph in London, in 1928 he was sent to Spain where he would witness the fall of the monarchy, the birth of the second Republic and finally, the event of the Spanish Civil War. He witnessed ten years of events that changed world history and thus became (along with Ernst Hemingway, Herbert L. Matthews, Vincent Shean, or Robert Capa, among others ) one of the great reporters of the war Spanish, who wrote his professional experiences in the 40s , after the end of the War throughout the Spanish territory following the conflict, among the fronts to which he traveled to make his chronicles, there is that of Teruel and the battle of the Ebro. This book, which has become a personal account and memoir of the historical events it narrates as defined by the historian and writer Paul Preston in the prologue of the Spanish translation of the work, which was translated by his son Ramón Buckley. His book was subsequently also translated into Catalan.

Buckley also reported on the Second World War in North Africa and finally in Italy and witnessed the entry of Allied troops into Berlin in 1944. That same year he returned to Spain to work for Reuters, news that he would get to direct. When he retired, he lived in the town of Sitges (Barcelona) where he died in 1973.

Henry Buckley Archive
Since 2004, various cultural activities carried out by the family have been carried out and participated in, such as the 2009 exhibition for which a catalog was published and, since 2021, also by the historical memory association FeMemòria, which among other actions organized an exhibition of the family archive in the past 2020-2021. Part of the Henry Buckley photographic archive can be consulted on the Fotografia de Catalunya digital portal.