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Preliminary material /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Dedication /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Preface /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Acknowledgements /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain'd in an Easy and Natural Method /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- John Wesley's Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Bibliography /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Index /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine.

A staunch advocate of socialist, feminist and Republican politics, Matilde de la Torre remains an enigmatic, elusive figure on the landscape of critical literature on Republican Spain. After winning a seat for Spain's Socialist Party (PSOE) in the 1933 and 1936 elections, De la Torre dedicated her political career to defending trade unions, promoting women's rights, denouncing war and fascism, and advocating for a democratic, Republican Spain. Throughout her lifetime, De la Torre published prolifically in the left-wing press and authored five book-length political commentaries, all of which dialogue with Spain's tumultuous political structures and debates. The central themes of De la Torre's career and output are outlined here, along with a discussion of recent scholarship.

Paul Preston (Liverpool, 1946) has been professor in international history at the London School of Economics since 1991 and is the honorary president of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies. Renowned for his work on the Spanish Civil War and Francoist dictatorship, Preston's internationally acclaimed books include A People Betrayed (2020), The Last Days of the Spanish Republic (2016), The Spanish Holocaust (2012), The Spanish Civil War (2006), Doves of War: Four Women of Spain (2002), Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War (1999) and Franco: A Biography (1993). An English-language edition of his latest work Arquitectos del terror: Franco y los artífices del odio, published in Spanish in 2021, is due for publication in Autumn 2022. Preston was interviewed in January 2021 by Deborah Madden, a Leverhulme Trust research fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Preston offers intriguing insight into his research, discussing the politics of sexual violence, memory politics, research as a form of activism and his main regret as a historian. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

The nefarious nexus of patriarchy and nationalism that characterized Francoist Spain (1939–75) made sexualized violence inflicted on the state's female prisoners an immanently political act. Focusing on En el infierno: Ser mujer en las cárceles de España (1977), the prison memoir of the communist and feminist activist Lidia Falcón, this article draws on theories of trauma, victimhood and memory to interrogate how Falcón navigates questions of (self-)representation and agency through the portrayal of rape and sexualized violence in Franco's women's prisons. Rape, for Falcón, is a multifaceted act that violates both the female body and the collective body politic, while the various manifestations of abuse – 'las modalidades de violación' – reify sexual and political dominance. By speaking on behalf of the female prison population, Falcón utilizes the collective voice so as to presuppose a collective victimhood that fosters solidarity amongst women and resists subjugation by the masculinist state.