María Pilar Díaz Rodríguez

Secretaria

1 de enero de 1940

Castilla la Mancha, España

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Biografía

Born in the late 1940s in Castilla-La Mancha. Grew up in a family of eight with a national police officer father. Studied secretarial skills after secondary school. Worked in a customs agency on the Castellana, Madrid. Married in her mid-twenties and emigrated to Australia in 1973 with her husband. Returned to Spain approximately fourteen years later.

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María Pilar Díaz Rodríguez

31 mar 2026

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Interview covers: childhood in a relatively comfortable family in Castilla-La Mancha; school experience and a formative female teacher; gender expectations and curfews for young women; working life in 1960s Madrid; her father's ambiguous wartime trajectory (Republican then Nationalist) and his non-vengeful character; lack of personal fear under the regime; emigration to Australia; and the cultural shock of returning to a Spain undergoing rapid social change after Franco's death.

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