Paul Preston

Paul Preston CBE (born 1946 in Liverpool) is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Franco, specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 30 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.[1]

Paul Preston on a visit to Spain in 2008

Since 1991 Professor Preston has taught at the London School of Economics, where he is Príncipe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies and director of the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. He is a frequent visitor to Spain, where his work appears in Spanish. He speaks Spanish fluently.[2] He also speaks Catalan.

Publications

Preston has produced a biography of Franco (Basic Books, 1994). He has also published a biography of King Juan Carlos I (2003).

Recent books include ones on the subject of foreign correspondents who reported on the Spanish Civil War and Franco's control of his generals. In 2012 he published the English edition of the Spanish Holocaust.[3] This book represents a challenge to the pact of forgetting,[4] examining the many deaths and atrocities associated with the Spanish Civil War, and following the Francoist repression into the early 1950s.[5]

Bibliography

Awards and honours

References

  1. Night Waves, BBC Radio Three, 6 March 2012
  2. (Spanish) 2007 Cadena SER interview, accessed via El País website
  3. Spanish and Catalan editions appeared in 2011. España masacrada, El País.
  4. Treglown (February 2012). "The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston: review". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
  5. Tremlett, Giles (March 2012). "The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston - review". The Guardian. www.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  6. Alison Flood (5 October 2012). "Six books to 'change our view of the world' on shortlist for non-fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  7. ACN (12 November 2012). "La Fundació Lluís Carulla atorga el Premi d'Honor a l'historiador Paul Preston". Vilaweb. Retrieved 22 November 2013.

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