Born in modern-day Equatorial Guinea, he caused a national stir when he married a white woman in 1936, went into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War, spent time in several internment camps and ended up leading a local group of the French Resistance. EL PAÍS has reconstructed his extraordinary life based on newly found documents and family accounts
Selma Lagerlöf not only won the Nobel Prize for Literature, she also saved a fellow laureate from the Nazis
Francisco Boix rescued hundreds of images of life in the Austrian concentration camp
Document written 29 years after his death describes arrest and killing of Granada poet
The US lawyer who won the ‘Mercedes’ wreck coins back for Spain reveals it all
New shows tell story of the Mercedes’ 1804 sinking and the legal battle to recover its hoard
A former journalist, Prince Felipe’s wife has been making news since their marriage 10 years ago
The US treasure hunter has paid $1.07m in legal expenses to the Spanish Treasury The haul on the sunken Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes was protected by a 1902 treaty
A new book reveals how Germany and the Allies sought to manipulate neutral Spain during WWI
Juan Negrín's granddaughter hands over 150,000 original documents for public consultation Historians eager to reassess last Republican leader's political role
Following the success of his Joyce-based tale 'Dublinés,' author Alfonso Zapico recreated Núñez de Balboa's expedition for his new story 'The other sea'
Academics scrutinize the concept of nationhood, from its origins to disfigurement under Franco
A retrospective in Bilbao brings together the work of this female collective, which has been campaigning against sexism in the art world since the 1980s
Spain’s Royal Academy of Language is celebrating its tercentenary In 1713, a group of Spaniards took it upon themselves to compile a dictionary
National Library brings together the work of the cartoonists who chronicled the move to democracy
Historians are calling on the government to change the way it deals with classified material Documents remain under lock and key indefinitely, until the authorities decide to release them
José Ángel Valente's Almería residence is yet to be turned into a cultural center
British historian’s biography of Spanish Communist leader pulls few punches, comparing him to Stalin
New law will allow National Library to start storing copies of online content
Antonia Gutiérrez's 1836 letter opened up the Biblioteca Nacional to all
Three hundred years after his birth, the figure of Jorge Juan is being revived The scientist, sailor, engineer, chronicler and "wise Spaniard" condemned slavery in the Americas
The Finance Ministry has pulled funding for 30 international projects The move puts Spain's hard-earned prestige in peril, say academics
Justices rule that Catalonia is the righful owner of the so-called Salamanca papers
Spain's national library attempts to atone for its own discriminatory past with a major exhibition on the women who broke down the book world's barriers
The Royal Academy of History's latest volumes dodge repeated controversy
‘Alatriste’ author knows no bounds
The late EL PAÍS journalist Javier Pradera is the subject of a new book It examines his journey from Francoist family to Communist Party card carrier