Enrique Moradiellos

Enrique Moradiellos
Born1961 Edit this on Wikidata
Oviedo Edit this on Wikidata
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Awards
  • National History Award (2017) Edit this on Wikidata

Enrique Moradiellos García (born 1961) is a Spanish historian whose main field of research is 20th-century history of Spain.[1]

Biography

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Moradiellos was born in 1961 in Oviedo.[2] After obtaining a licentiate degree in history from the University of Oviedo, he earned a scholarship at London's Queen Mary College.[1]

In 1989, he earned a PhD in history from the University of Oviedo, with his dissertation Neutralidad benévola. El gobierno británico y la insurrección militar española de 1936 ("Benevolent neutrality. The British government and the Spanish military insurrection of 1936"), officially supervised by José María Moro Barreñada yet de facto supervised by Paul Preston.[3] He became a senior lecturer for the University of Extremadura in 1999 and professor of Contemporary History in 2006.[1] In 2017, he was awarded the National Prize for History on account of his book Historia Minima de la Guerra Civila Española ("Small History of the Spanish Civil War").[1]

In November 2020, Moradiellos was elected member of the Royal Academy of History, covering the seat left vacant after the death of Faustino Menéndez Pidal de Navascués.[4]

Selected works

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  • — (1996). La perfidia de Albión: El gobierno británico y la guerra civil española. Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno de España.[5]
  • — (2001). El reñidero de Europa. Las dimensiones de la guerra civil española. Barcelona: Península.[6]
  • — (2002). Francisco Franco. Crónica de un caudillo casi olvidado. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.[7]
  • — (2004). 1936. Los mitos de la guerra civil. Barcelona: Península.[8]
  • — (2005). Franco frente a Churchill. España y Gran Bretaña en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939–1945). Barcelona: Península.[9]
  • — (2006). Don Juan Negrín. Barcelona: Península.[10]
  • — (2016). Historia mínima de la Guerra Civil española. Madrid & Mexico: Turner-El Colegio de México.[11]
  • — (2018). Franco: Anatomy of a Dictator. London: I.B. Tauris.[12]

References

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Citations
  1. ^ a b c d "Enrique Moradiellos CV and publications in English". Academia.edu. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Enrique Moradiellos, Premio Nacional de Historia de España 2017" [Enrique Moradiellos, National Prize for History of Spain 2017]. El Diario (in Spanish). 2 November 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  3. ^ Torre, Franco (26 November 2017). "Enrique Moradiellos, 'Asturiano del mes' por su extraordinaria labor de investigación" [Enrique Moradiellos, 'Asturian of the month' for his extraordinary research work]. La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Enrique Moradiellos, nuevo académico de número de la Real Academia de la Historia" [Enrique Moradiellos, new member of the Royal Academy of History]. El Español (in Spanish). 20 November 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  5. ^ Stradling 2000, pp. 1011–1012.
  6. ^ Carantoña Álvarez 2002, pp. 387–388; Blas Guerrero 2003
  7. ^ Pradera 2002.
  8. ^ Tusell 2004.
  9. ^ Martín de la Guardia 2007.
  10. ^ Ruiz-Manjón 2006.
  11. ^ Olábarri Gortázar 2016, pp. 634–647.
  12. ^ Hernández Burgos 2019, pp. 337–339.
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