摘要：In 2004, the British journal Social History published a special issue on modern Spain. This was, to my knowledge, an unprecedented event. My contribution was a short report entitled «Spanish historians and the English-speaking world» in which I looked at the place of modern Spain in European history, primarily in North America, and the role of historians from Spain 1 . I started the piece by referring to a « cuarenta principales » song from the 1970s, «I never been to Spain», to make the underlying point that Spain is essentially marginal to Anglophone historical writing about Europe. Now, close to ten years later, the situation has not really changed.
