Jingoistic poem celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)
Half roasted Frenchmen, some o’er Gratings Broil’d/Do mix with Spaniards in the Sea parboil’d;
Category: Decline
1700-1833
Son of a broker
A Dutch compliment becomes a French insult.
Referendums on independence are for pussies
Serious separatists will drive on the left, in Vic, starting Sunday.
Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero
Party political prejudice, or yet more historical memory bollocks?
The naming of El Picazo
Mr Muñoz Soliva postulates the participation of some peculiarly phurtive Phoenicians.
Spain, a nation of whores, soldiers and fools?
Spanish entries from the 1811 Dictionary of the vulgar tongue, with some fanciful etymological speculation and a mercifully brief bout of bar-room anthropology.
The invention of Barcelona carnival
Moreto’s El desdén con el desdén and Reznicek’s Donna Diana: Vicky Christina Barcelonas of yesteryear?
Revisionist history of 17th century Mediterranean trade
Molly Greene describes the complex anarchy that existed between the collapse of the Mediterranean powers and the entry of northern fleets.