The mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), and the rector of the University of Málaga (UMA), Teodomiro López, signed an agreement on Wednesday 22nd, through which the academic institution undertakes to digitise, for free, the magnetic tapes recorded between 1969 and 1972 by the historian and Hispanist Ronald Fraser. In them, the German author collected all kinds of information to make two books about Mijas related to the Civil War and Manuel Cortés, who was the last republican mayor, and who lived in hiding for three decades and is popularly known as ‘El Topo’. 

The eighty tapes that are now going to be digitised contain all the information and sources used by the Hispanist, which were donated to the University of Liverpool, including their transcriptions, to be later ceded by this institution to the Municipal Historical Archive of Mijas. 

This digitisation will allow the preservation of this information and will facilitate its access at the Municipal Historical Archive and at the academic institution itself. “It is an agreement that will perpetuate part of the history of our municipality for future generations. We are talking about events and about a very important historian who knew how to capture them. Because in order to move towards the future we need to know our past and thanks to the UMA we guarantee this legacy”,  explained Mata.

For his part, the rector of the University of Málaga, Teodomiro López, emphasised that the University “must be an institution open to the province”, and highlighted ‘“that the digitalisation that is going to be carried out is a research method, one of the bases of the institution, as it is going to add value to and preserve historical documentation of great value”. 

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