Born in modern-day Equatorial Guinea, Mbomo was taken as a teen to Spain where he became an airplane mechanic at a military air base. 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. He was arrested and sent to a concentration camp in Germany, and survived an RAF bombing of the prisoner ship where he’d been transferred. EL PAÍS has reconstructed his extraordinary life based on newly found documents and family accounts
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
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'
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
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
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
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
