Searching in History

Kings and Prime Ministers sought his advice and bow to him for loans and investments. Vast lengths of railroads and landscapes transformed b...

“Bird of the same feather, flock together.”

Queen Isabella II reigned in a tumultuous century for both Europe and Spain. Thrusted into politics as a toddler, she grew up to controversi...

While Queen Victoria enjoyed a nation riding high in imperial glory, her contemporary in Spain found her nation in disarray, plagued by poli...

In 1836, then Spanish Prime Minister Juan Alvarez Mendizabal unleashed his decree that targeted the privatization of lands owned by religiou...

David Ringrose said “the way in which access to land is defined, and the social constraints imposed on its use, play a major role in the mod...

When Isabella took the crown of Castile, what was her kingdom like?