This article presents the results of an investigation on the conception and knowledge of democratic memory in secondary school and college. This study is accomplished by means of the preparation and implementation of a didactic proposal based on the local history and the conception of the classroom as a space for research. Likewise, learning mechanisms, transformations in the perception of the students and results of the didactic project are analysed, which permit us to provide, therefore, some keys for the work of history and memory in learning the Spanish Civil War and Francoist repression
