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4 years

Spaniards in my experience much more disciplined in adhering to the lockdown measures than Brits, even though social distancing and self isolation not part of Spaniards’ DNA.

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William Chislett

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2 years

Muerte de Javier María: primera plana en @el_pais , editorial y 6 páginas de artículos sobre él. Impensable para un escritor anglosajón. Javier me ayudó sufragar los gastos de restaurar la lápida conmemorativa de Arturo Barea en el condado de Oxford, una ciudad que marcó su vida.

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Vivo en Madrid y tengo 450 discos de música clasíca, heredados de mi padre musicologo en Oxford y en condición prístina. Busco un sitio donde puedo donarlos. Mandarme un mensaje si interesa. He consultado algunos conservatorios de música y no tienen espacio. @Scherzo_es

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4 years

Spain the country with the most excess deaths per one million population

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7 years

El éxito de España, 1977-2017, a vista de pájaro.

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4 years

Spain moves up the EIU Democracy Index to 16th place (with Austria) from 19th , and is one of 22 "full democracies" Catalan secessionists will not be pleased as it refutes their campaign that Spain is not a democracy.

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Feliz 85 cumple Ian Gibson, quien ha hecho tanto para dar a entender la España del siglo XX.

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12 days

Today visited with a close Oxford friend of Javier Marias the author’s tomb at the San Isidro cemetery in Madrid and cleared away the dead flowers. Unable to replace them as no flowers on sale.

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2 years

Mi nacionalidad española, concedida por el Gobierno el martes, ya está en el BOE, abriendo el proceso para conseguir DNI y pasaporte.

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5 years

Spain is a very tolerant society. Was not that way only 40 years ago.

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10 months

With Spanish nationality since 2021, I voted today for the first time in a general election. Whatever the results, may the losers accept the winners and the winners not gloat over the losers.

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2 years

Burgo de Osma,Soria. Precioso.

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Feliz 84 cumple, Ian Gibson. ¡Todo un toro!

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4 years

Spanish politicians' disastrous handling of the pandemic. Todo una vergüenza. @michaelreid52

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2 years

Desde hoy soy español por Carta de Naturaleza. Jure lealtad a la Constitución y al Rey.⁦ @rielcano ⁩

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3 years

Spain slips to 22nd out of 167 countries in latest EIU democracy index from 16th place in 2019 but still (just) a "full democracy." Score drops from 8.29 out of 10 to 8.12. @EspanaGlobal @rielcano

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4 years

Sunset in our Spanish pueblito.

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6 years

El Gobierno de España ha perdido el norte al ordenar a la policía perseguir bufandas amarillas (el color de los independentistas catalanes). Incredibly stupid.

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1 year

Mi Tweet sobre mi deseo de donar 450 vinilos a una entidad pública en España ha suscitado un enorme interés y muchas ofertas, hasta el punto que Angels Barceló me va a entrevistar el 11/5 en Cadena SER. Ya he donado mil libros a dos universidades españolas.

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2 years

View from Islamic/Christian castle at Gormaz, Soria. In its day second largest castle in Europe.

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4 years

The last thing Spain needs is yet more investment in infrastructure to the continued detriment of human capital. (School leaving rate is EU’s highest at 17%)

Spain’s high-speed trains are poor value

Yet more are planned

www.economist.com

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3 years

Brexit deal: despite saying earlier this year “there is no threat to the Erasmus scheme”, Johnson says UK will not continue in it. In 2018/19 4,301 UK students came to Spain under Erasmus and 4,480 Spaniards to UK. A shameful liar.

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William Chislett

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2 years

John Elliott, the great Oxford historian of colonial Spain and much else has died at the age of 91. A generous letter from him in 1993 about my book on contemporary Spain was hugely motivating. RIP.

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6 years

40 years of Spain, a table that says more than 1,000 words. Included in the illuminating report by @michaelreid52 in the latest @TheEconomist . A greatly extended table will be included in a Paper of mine to be published by @rielcano later this year.

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7 years

Memorial unveiled in Oxford to those who fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. @gilestremlett

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Spain narrowly remains a "full democracy" in the 2023 index of the @TheEIU , one of the many issues examined in my recent long report for @rielcano (based on the 2022 index). Deterioating quality.

Challenging Times for Spain - Elcano Royal Institute

Spain has another Socialist-led minority coalition government that faces a host of challenges, most of them not new but with an added urgency.

www.realinstitutoelcano.org

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3 years

Muy divertido este libro del ⁦ @InstCervantes ⁩ sobre la diversidad del idioma español. Una mascarilla en España es barbijo en Argentina, barboquejo en Bolivia y nasobujo en Cuba, y la variedad de palabras para los genitales es extraordinaria.

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4 years

The man who accused Spain of robbing Catalonia!

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4 years

Former Catalan president amassed huge fortune through crime, judge says

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4 years

Según INE, desde marzo en España han fallecido 53.500 personas más que en la media de los cuatro años anteriores, lo que supone un exceso del 27% sobre lo normal.

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6 years

El Gobierno propone a Jordi Sevilla como presidente de Red Eléctrica: en mi país (Inglaterra) esto se llama "jobs for the boys" (amiguismo). Lamentable, tanto por el PP que el PSOE.

El Gobierno propone a Jordi Sevilla como presidente de Red Eléctrica

El Ejecutivo completa el relevo en las empresas públicas dependientes de la Sepi

elpais.com

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2 years

45 years ago today Spaniards held their first free election since 1936. My take for The Times. In those days King Juan Carlos was a hero. @CharlesTPowell @lanegreene

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6 years

Viva Spanish humour. This joke about the arrest of Puigdemont. "The last time a Messiah was arrested during Easter Week it turned out rather badly."

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2 years

Traditional door in our Spanish village. They don’t make like this anymore.

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3 years

Caminando esta mañana por el Manzanares en El Pardo. Parece una pintura de Turner.

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Burgo de Osma.

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1 year

Having lived in London and now Madrid, ranking London’s public transport 16 places above Madrid’s is absurd. Madrid’s is cleaner, quicker, cheaper, more accessible, better infrastructure quality, etc. ⁦ @OliverWyman ⁩

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1 year

Spain ranked 21st out of 169 countries in Social Progress Index, and best in world in component of basic human needs.

Global Index 2022:Overview

We provide decision-makers and everyday citizens with the very best data on the social and environmental health of their societies and help them prioritize actions that accelerate social progress.

www.socialprogress.org

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4 years

Interesting that the two nurses who mounted a 48 hour watch on Boris Johnson in hospital were not British. One is from New Zealand and the other from Portugal . Brexiters take note.

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10 months

Gracias @MADRID por dar luz verde hoy a mi solicitud para colocar en el otoño una placa sobre la Biblioteca UNED en Lavapiés (antiguas Escuelas Pías) donde Arturo Barea, autor de La forja de un rebelde, estudió hasta los 13 años. @ukinspain @EmbSpainUK @InstCervantes @rielcano

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William Chislett

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3 years

Personal news: after 20 fruitful years and 186 Inside Spain, 4 books and numerous Working Papers and analysis am voluntarily retiring from @rielcano . I will write a monthly column on Spain as of November. Wonderful colleagues.

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2 years

Gracias @desdelamoncloa por darme nacionalidad española por Carta de Naturaleza, y mis padrinos: @AranchaGlezLaya @JuanGBarba @AlmuniaJoaquin @regovello @EmilioLamo , @NachoSAmor y Antonio Muñoz Molina. @HughElliottUK @rielcano @InstCervantes @MAECgob

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2 years

As the author of a short history of Spain and enlarged version in Spanish there is no way I could not read this book, and it is superb. No mean feat to reduce such a complex history to 300 pages. Beautifully illustrated. ⁦ @gilestremlett ⁩

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2 years

Madrid second healthiest city in the world to live in, according to various indicators.

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6 years

El @InstCervantes va publicar por la primera vez en España el estudio de Arturo Barea sobre Lorca, con prologo de Ian Gibson. Publicado en inglés en 1944 y en Argentina en 1957. Feliz de haber ayudado a arreglar la publicación.

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2 years

Happy 83rd birthday Ian Gibson, viejo amigo (in many senses). Below celebrating his 80th in my home with friends.

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10 months

Con esta Placa para colocar en Lavapiés, Madrid, en el otoño, doy por terminado mi larga recuperación de la figura y libros de Arturo Barea (Badajoz 1897-Inglaterra 1957) que empezó en 2010 con restauración de su lápida y luego otros memoriales. Gracias @MADRID @InstCervantes

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William Chislett

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5 years

Spain's 20 years in the euro, as a founder member, have been good for the economy. My take to be published by @rielcano next week when we are back in full swing. Meanwhile this graph says a lot.

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2 years

Mi primer viaje con el pasaporte español concedido hace una semana - a Oaxaca, Mexico, para ver mi hijo mayor por primera vez en 27 meses y una nieta de 14 meses.

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47 years ago today police detained me in Madrid at a press conference with Yves Montand and Regis Debray, protesting Franco's death sentences for 11 terrorists. They deported, me held at police HQ in Puerta del Sol. Story in Cambio-16 (me on left) and mine for @thetimes

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2 years

Muy orgulloso del espacio creado en la Biblioteca de los Trinitarios en ⁦ @UAHes ⁩ para mi donación de novelas en inglés, casi todas primeras ediciones y muchas firmadas, y biografías. Inaugurada esta semana por el Rector.

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2 years

46 years ago today Adolfo Suarez took office as PM of Spain and the transition to democracy began in earnest. Suarez was almost universally not given a warm welcome. My take for the @NewStatesman . @michaelreid52 @CharlesTPowell

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William Chislett

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2 years

Tres semanas de recibir nacionalidad española por Carta de Naturaleza tengo DNI y pasaporte y no tuve que entregar mi pasaporte británico.

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William Chislett

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3 years

Yesterday received in Madrid my first Covid jab (Pfizer). No reaction 24 hours later. Just gratitude.

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William Chislett

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2 years

Alligator in church at Berlanga de Duero, Soria, brought to the town in 1543 by Fray Tomas from Panama, who discovered the Galápagos Islands.

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4 years

Ian Gibson a punto de entregar un legado a la Caja de las Letras en ⁦ @InstCervantes ⁩: dos libros de Gerald Brenan.

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4 years

Scallops Galician style.

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3 years

Muñoz Molina sobre Pablo Iglesias. Comparar exiliados de la República con "esos señoritos supremacistas catalanes que aprovecharon el dinero público de todos en una mezcla de golpe de Estado y charlotada grotesca es más que una injusticia: es una vileza".

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William Chislett

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5 years

"El único sitio del mundo donde el edén virtual se ha cumplido, aparte de en los anuncios, es en Cataluña." Antonio Muñoz Molina sobre los independentistas que hacen gala del pacifismo y al tiempo celebran la violencia vandálica.

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William Chislett

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2 years

Memorial to be unveiled this Saturday in Southampton commemorating the 3,862 Basque children including a friend of mine then aged 7 shipped to UK after 1937 bombing of Guernica in Spain’s Civil War.⁦ @EmbSpainUK ⁩ ⁦ @ukinspain ⁩ ⁦ @elpaisinenglish ⁩

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William Chislett

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10 years

The PP returns to the Middle Ages: interior minister pins police merit medal on the Virgin Mary. http://t.co/5ZXu4foDlz

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3 years

How Spain escaped the middle income trap. My post for @rielcano on a @OxUniPress book, manuscript of which I read in 2020. @michaelreid52 @EmilioLamo @AlmuniaJoaquin @lanegreene @SpainMFA

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William Chislett

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2 years

En febrero @editorialespasa publicara 2 textos, con mi prefacio, de Arturo Barea inéditos en español (de 1941 y 1945), así cumpliendo mi proyecto de tener publicados en español todos los libros del autor publicados solo en inglés. @InstCervantes , @corralcpedro @ElviraLindo

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4 years

View from Tui cathedral across the Miño river that divides Spain from Portugal.

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3 years

Mi donación de libros de Arturo Barea hoy a la @BNE_biblioteca , junto con algunos de los amigos Ian Gibson y Michael Jacobs. @InstCervantes

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2 years

Why do foreigners have a higher opinion of Spain than Spaniards do? @rielcano

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1 year

Good to see Arturo Barea's Forging of a Rebel making the list of Top 10 neglected books on Spanish Civil War, though it is not that neglected. Never been out of print since first published in 1940s in English and then in Spanish in the 50s.

Top 10 neglected books about the Spanish civil war | Sarah Watling

A few celebrated names dominate our understanding of this ‘last great cause’, but these novels and memoirs show there is much more to learn

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

The Volunteer pub in Faringdon, Oxon, where I organised the placing of a plaque in honour of #ArturoBarea in 2013 has closed, but the plaque survives. It was Barea's favourite drinking hole during his exile.

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William Chislett

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6 years

Cifuentes aún no dimite. En mi país los políticos dimiten hasta por intentar ocultar una infracción de tráfico. Hace 5 años escribí esto.

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William Chislett

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2 years

Hoy conseguí en el momento DNI y pasaporte español para €42. El pasaporte británico cuesta casi el doble y tarda hasta seis semanas. Goodbye Brexit. Y guardo mi pasaporte británico.

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William Chislett

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1 year

Serious students of Spain should buy these books. "The Trials" is out next week and the other one on 13 April. @michaelreid52 @gilestremlett @EmbSpainUK @ukinspain Will write about both separately for @rielcano

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William Chislett

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3 years

Covid jabs finally picking up in Spain. Aged 70, I get my first one this Thursday.

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William Chislett

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6 years

Today I am taking my friend Herminio Martínez (86) to the #ArturoBarea exhibition at the @InstCervantes . Herminio was shipped to UK in 1937 along with 4,000 other chlldren after the bombing of Guernica, and stayed there. He designed this plaque to Barea.

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William Chislett

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2 months

Spain's amnesty does not meet three key conditions in the Venice Commission report: does not have an "appropriately large majority", should not be fast tracked and should be tightly drawn. Government, of course, prefers to ignore this.

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William Chislett

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6 years

Hoy el libro de #ArturoBarea sobre Lorca ha sido publicado en España por primera vez (publicado en Inglaterra en 1944). Gracias Juan Marqués por dedicar tu introducción a mi y gracias Ian Gibson por tu prólogo. @InstCervantes

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1 year

Pleased to have helped inspire this article as a result of my musings for ⁦ @rielcano ⁩

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2 years

Thanks @FaringdonTC for keeping the plaque commemorating Arturo Barea on the outside of The Volunteer which I had put up in 2013 and feared might be removed as the pub is being to put to another use. @InstCervantes

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9 months

After 18 days in northern Portugal and 13 more to go I finally succumbed to a pasteis de nata (custard tart).

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1 year

Franco died 47 years ago today. My report on the first year after his death for ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ ⁦ @CharlesTPowell ⁩ ⁦ @michaelreid52 ⁩ ⁦ @AlmuniaJoaquin ⁩ ⁦ @EmilioLamo ⁩

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6 years

Radio Nacional de España acaba de encontrar en sus archivos la penúltima charla del escritor: todo un descubrimiento. Mi noticia en @elpais_espana @InstCervantes @rne

La voz de Arturo Barea revive en los archivos de RNE | Análisis

Radio Nacional de España acaba de encontrar en sus archivos la penúltima charla del escritor: todo un descubrimiento y una gran noticia

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14 days

So pleased that @OxUniPress has asked me to write a new edition of my 2013 book. @rielcano @ElcanoJjRuiz

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4 years

Celebrating 46th wedding anniversary! in Chinchón at La Balconada. Photoshop would provide me with hair.

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5 years

Muy contento que se va a publicar en Austral y por la primera vez en España el ensayo de Arturo Barea sobre Unamuno (publicado en Inglaterra en 1951 y en Argentina en 1959), con una introducción mía. En 2018 salió en España su Lorca por la primera vez, gracias a @InstCervantes

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1 year

Bedroom with a view in Ronda.

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William Chislett

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2 years

El día 25, entrega formal de mi donación de 400 novelas en inglés, casi todas primeras ediciones y algunas firmadas por el autor, a la Universidad de Alcalá. Ubicadas en la biblioteca en la antigua iglesia del Convento de Trinitarios Descalzos. One less thing to worry about.

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1 year

Ronda.

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1 year

Antes del fin del año, creo, saldrá la biografía de Arturo Barea, escrito por mi amigo Michael Eaude.

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10 months

46 years ago almost to the day Spain’s first democratically elected parliament since the Civil War was inaugurated. My front page piece for @thetimes . Gone is the spirit of cooperation ahead of the general election on 23/7.

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2 years

Good to see Arturo Barea’s trilogy The Forging of a Rebel as one of the best books to understand Spain. ⁦ @michaelreid52 ⁩ from @TheEconomist

What to read (and watch) to understand contemporary Spain

Six books and two films on the civil war, the dictatorship and the years since

www.economist.com

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4 years

Hake and turbot for two at Cambados Galicia como dios manda.

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4 years

Spain's problems can be better tackled with cross-party, long-term agreements. Spaniards deserve better of their politicians. My post for @rielcano

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10 months

Time for a German style coalition in Spain between PP and Socialists? Been calling for this for years.

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45 years ago today Spain’s newly elected parliament ditched Franco’s penal code, allowing all political parties to operate legally. Before, just the National Movement. My piece for @thetimes . @FTransicion @CharlesTPowell @rielcano

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After reading the manuscript of the engaging, erudite and unique biography of Madrid by @lukestegemann to to be published in August by @yalepress I have enthusiastically endorsed for the back cover. @HughElliottUK @AlexWEllis @JeremyCliffe @lanegreene @rielcano @CharlesTPowell

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William Chislett

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6 years

Gran noticia: Arturo Barea's La forja de un rebelde (The Forging of a Rebel) sería re-editado en inglés en agosto. Publicado por primera vez (en inglés) en los años 40, en español en Argentina en los 50 y en España en 1977. @InstCervantes

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William Chislett

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2 years

Apellido desafortunado para una farmacia.

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William Chislett

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Gracias @desdelamoncloa por concederme la nacionalidad española por Carta de Naturaleza, y mis padrinos/aliados: @AranchaGlezLaya @JuanGBarba @AlmuniaJoaquin @regovello @EmilioLa @NachoSAmor y Antonio Muñoz Molina.

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5 years

After the recent election Spain has the highest share of female MPs in Europe, and probably the world.

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How Spain became prosperous. My post for @rielcano @SpanishBulletin @InstCervantes @GlobalSpain @ukinspain @BritishSpanish @MAECgob

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William Chislett

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6 years

Saldrá POR FIN en España el libro de #arturobarea sobre Lorca. Publicado en inglés en 1944 y en Argentina en 1956. Presentación 21/3 por Ian Gibson. Y yo presentaré la única charla de Barea para la BBC que creo que aún existe, encontrada en RNE. …

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9 months

Iberian differences: this Portuguese restaurant inside and outside brim full at 12.15. In Spain most restaurants do not even open for lunch until 13.30. ⁦ @michaelreid52 ⁩

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