"Popularising History: From Fiction to Comics" Book Club
3 November 2026 – 1 December 2026
Museu d'Història de Catalunya, la Barceloneta, Ciutat Vella
Popularising History: From Fiction to Comics How can we approach research into history? Which books give us access to expert knowledge? What is the research process like? The works chosen for this series reveal different perspectives on the work of historians and archaeologists, from fieldwork at excavation sites to research in archives. At the same time, we will see through which languages the results of this research can be made accessible to a broad and diverse public: from illustration to storytelling. Indignity by Lea Ypi When Lea Ypi discovers on social media a photo of her grandparents on honeymoon in the Alps in 1941, she is faced with many questions. She had been told that the family's papers had been destroyed, but there they were: her grandmother Leman and her husband, Asllan Ypi, glamorous and smiling, while the Second World War was devastating Europe. Through secret police reports, court statements and her family memories, Lea Ypi immerses us in the vanished world of the Ottoman aristocracy, the formation of modern Greece and Albania, the horrors of war and the entrenchment of communism in the Balkans. What do we really know about the people closest to us? At once…
Source: Generalitat de Catalunya · checked on 2 November 2026