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El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar las estrategias comunicativas del gobierno dictatorial del general Franco en España tras el accidente aéreo norteamericano de 1966 que supuso la dispersión de cuatro bombas termonucleares en las playas de Palomares (Almería). La metodología aplicada es el análisis de investigaciones previas, publicaciones en prensa en el momento del incidente y documentos cinematográficos. Los resultados establecen dos fases. La primera fase incluyó una estricta censura y una visión desenfadada de los hechos, evitando dañar la imagen de España como destino turístico o las relaciones con Estados Unidos. La segunda fase, una vez que la noticia del riesgo nuclear ya había sido difundida por radios independientes a pesar de la incautación de la prensa extranjera, incluyó comunicados que destacaban las labores de descontaminación, el nivel científico de España y la colaboración con EEUU. Los resultados confirman la eficacia del “baño de Fraga” y el papel simbólico de la duquesa de Medina-Sidonia. Se concluye que la estrategia dictatorial de ocultar información relevante tiende a sobredimensionar el escándalo debido a la intensidad de las repercusiones globales

El propósito de este artículo es analizar el papel y cobertura desempeñada por la prensa internacional tras la muerte de Franco y la posterior Transición a la democracia en España (1975-1978). El periodo sobre el que versa esta investigación comprende la muerte de Franco, el 20 de noviembre de 1975, hasta la ratificación por referéndum del Constitución democrática, el 6 de diciembre de 1978. Los resultados del análisis permiten observar que, a pesar del temor del estallido de una nueva Guerra Civil o la resistencia al cambio de los grupos más conservadores, los once diarios estudiados apoyaron de forma crítica pero incondicional el proceso democrático.

Commentators have either ignored American supporters of General Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) or dismissed them as cranks. In reality, the pro-Franco cause was both more widespread and more complex than prevailing historiography allows. Many Franco supporters were also anti-fascists and supporters in other respects of progressive causes. This article examines Ellery Sedgwick's support of Franco. Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, one of the leading journals of opinion at the time, Sedgwick was also representative of the American social élite. The article argues that Sedgwick was not interested in Franco per se, but promoted his cause because he sought to demonstrate the danger that international communism posed to American national identity during a period of unprecedented insecurity. Caught in a unique historical moment, pro-Franco anti-communists of 1938 were patriots to themselves but un-American to the New Deal state.

The elections on April 14th, 1931, showed an overwhelming republican majority. Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, suspended the exercise of royal power and went into exile. El Pardo, the nearest qualified Royal Site to Madrid, suffered different policy changes reflected in its social development. The Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War have been two highly processed items, but nevertheless, El Pardo itself, and in comparison with other affected areas, does not seem to be of concern despite being the residential core of the main political leaders from Manuel Azaña in the Second Republic time, before the Civil War, to Francisco Franco in the ‘40s. This study aims to examine how the political forces shaped and transformed this Royal Site from a social point of view. It is also about social projects which are frustrated because of the precarious economic situation and how the procedure was changed and El Pardo as an independent town until the 1950s as an integral part of the State Capital. It also takes part of the researching thesis core for the PhD on which Cantarero is working, and introduces such other lines of research as “The Urban Development Plan after the Civil War in the Royal Site of El Pardo, in Madrid, Spain,” from the architectural point of view.

From Roman times to the present day, Spain has occupied a significant role in the evolution of our Western world. In this one volume, under the editorship of Sir Raymond Carr, leading scholars present an overview of the political, economic, social, and intellectual factors which have shaped Spanish history over the last two thousand years.