February 2024 Issue Daniel Rey Priests with Pick Axes How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History By Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo LR
August 2022 Issue Duncan Wheeler Don Quixote Meets Don Juan España: A Brief History of Spain By Giles Tremlett Incomparable Realms: Spain During the Golden Age, 1500–1700 By Jeremy Robbins LR
July 2021 Issue David Abulafia Alhambra Confidential City of Illusions: A History of Granada By Helen Rodgers & Stephen Cavendish LR
April 2020 Issue Linda Porter A Catholic & a Gentleman Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain By Alexander Samson LR
March 2020 Issue David Gilmour Rogues & Republicans A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874–2018 By Paul Preston LR
October 2019 Issue David Gilmour One Nation or Two? Violencia: A New History of Spain – Past, Present and the Future of the West By Jason Webster After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain By Tobias Buck LR
May 2019 Issue Anthony Pagden Not Quite Master of All He Surveyed Emperor: A New Life of Charles V By Geoffrey Parker LR
September 1998 Issue Raymond Carr How Stalin Ruined the Spanish Republic Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War By Gerald Howson LR
April 2017 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Handing over the Keys to Paradise The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End By Elizabeth Drayson LR
March 2008 Issue Michael Jacobs A Golden Age? Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity By Henry Kamen LR
July 2014 Issue John Edwards In Spanish Steps World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II By Hugh Thomas LR
May 2012 Issue Timothy Brook Raise the Holy Sail Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem By Carol Delaney The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama By Nigel Cliff LR
October 2012 Issue Caroline Moorehead Intellectuals-at-Arms I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men & Women Who Went to Fight Fascism By David Boyd Haycock Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism By Richard Baxell LR
March 2014 Issue Frederic Raphael In the Caudillo’s Shadow Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 By Jeremy Treglown LR
July 2013 Issue Michael Jacobs The Quiet Englishman The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War By Henry Buckley LR
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