Spain & Portugal

Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conques...

Set in the northeastern corner of Spain and nestled next to France is the autonomous regi...

The history of the Spanish Peninsula is closely bound to that of the Moors. The term &ld...

In 1937, George Orwell spent six months witnessing the rise and fall of a popular revolut...

“Goa is sadly famous for its inquisition, equally contrary to humanity and commerc...

By the mid-15th century the Byzantine Empire had collapsed and the various Crusades that ...

The Netherlands has had a complex and turbulent history involving the interplay of multip...

It would not be a stretch to say that for a very tiny geographical territory (just 20,747...

Shaped like an uneven triangle, Catalonia is comprised of four provinces that occupy an ...

These dictators all lived in Southern European countries. Meet the evil despots called:Be...

By the end of the 14th century, the distrust and prejudice against Jewish communities q...

Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, politic...

Thinking of Spain as a modern nation state today distorts the complicated reality that th...

By the start of the 15th century, ships were now much larger and able to support long di...

Trade was able to increase in Europe around the world due to more effective ships being ...

Thinking of Spain as a modern nation state today distorts the complicated reality that t...

By the time Christopher Columbus started setting east from the New World, he had explored...

Do you know the bloody story of the Spanish Civil War and what we need to learn from it t...

What was it that set the Spanish Empire on the path to such illustrious glory? Was it the...