Spain and Portugal, 1837–1974: British Foreign Office Confidential Print Coming Soon Overview

Britain’s relationships with Spain and Portugal have been among its closest, and most complicated, ties to the European continent for hundreds of years. This collection comprises 90 items, including diplomatic correspondence and reports, amounting to a total of approximately 28,000 pages. It offers unrivalled insights into the changes and reconfigurations that Spain and Portugal experienced in this period. Key topics are covered in particular depth, such as imperial tensions surrounding territories such as Cuba and Gibraltar during the nineteenth century; the development of normalised economic and trade arrangements between Britain, Spain, and Portugal; Britain’s controversial policy of non-intervention during the Spanish Civil War; and the management of complex relationships between Britain and the right-wing regimes of Franco and Salazar in the years after the Second World War. This collection will appeal to students, educators, and researchers interested in the histories of Spain and Portugal, political thought and ideology, war, and colonialism. It will likewise appeal to those studying political science, economics, and modern diplomacy.