Brexit: A Leap in the Dark

Posted by Jonny hough
On October 23, 2016

One decision, 64.6 million* consequences On June 23 this year the UK made one of the biggest decisions in recent history: to leave the European Union. The real consequences for the future of the country are as yet unknown, but the result (51.9 per cent voted leave, 48.1 per cent voted remain) has had a […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On October 3, 2016

Jorge Benítez, El Mundo Imagine que recibe un email de un cazatalentos internacional de Apple en el que se le pide una cita para tomar un café dentro de media hora. ¿Qué hace? ¿Acudir corriendo? Mejor montar en bici. Eso hizo Rodrigo García un día después de haber triunfado en Londres con una exposición de sus inventos […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On September 10, 2016

Two Anglo-Spanish friends, visual artist Sonia Boué and poet Jenny Rivarola, have produced a creative response to Felicia Browne’s short life. We explain their interest in her and introduce their upcoming Arts Council-funded exhibition: Through An Artist’s Eye. Artist Sonia Boué first discovered the work of Felicia Browne at the Conscience and Conflict exhibition at […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On September 10, 2016

By Duncan Wheeler In April 2016, the third-third edition of the academic cycle of Almeria’s Classical Theatre Festival took place in the neighbouring coastal resort of Roquetas de Mar. The brain child of secondary school teacher and theatre practitioner Antonio Serrano, the University of Almeria took on a more active role this year. Noelia […]

The BritishSpanish Society Prize sponsored by the University of Wales Press and Iberian and Latin American Studies Series

Posted by Jonny hough
On September 1, 2016

The British Spanish Society is pleased to join the UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS and Iberian and Latin American Studies Series to support research in Hispanic Studies and to provide a channel among researchers, academia and the Society. This is a unique opportunity for researchers to win a prestigious prize and for their thesis to be considered for publication by […]

Celebrating 100 years

Posted by Jonny hough
On April 5, 2016

By Luis Martínez del Campo From its origins in foreign policy to the educational, social and cultural focus of the present day, the BritishSpanish Society has a rich and varied history. In commemoration of the Society’s centenary, historian Luis Martínez del Campo takes us through the key moments from 1916 to 2016. In the early 20th […]

Cien años de lazos diplomáticos entre Shakespeare y Cervantes

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 15, 2016

Pablo Guimon, UK Correspondant, El Pais, 24 May 2016 La British Spanish Society celebra en su centenario una insólita historia de diplomacia cultural entre España y Reino Unido Al hacer coincidir el mismo 23 de abril de 1616 el fallecimiento de dos gigantes de la literatura universal, el destino brindó a Inglaterra y a España […]

Antonio Najarro: Dance Fusions

Posted by Jonny hough
On November 29, 2015

Photo by Jesus Robisco Ballet Nacional de España’s highly esteemed director speaks to Graham Watts, chairman of the Dance Section of Critics’ Circle and National Dance Awards about Suite Sevilla, and how he trained dancers to perform flamenco on ice. Antonio Najarro exudes a palpable aura of celebrity. With thick, dark hair that stands to […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On July 8, 2015

Brian Mooney navigates his way from the centre of Spain to the city of London. I have become alarmingly medieval in my approach to pilgrimage, believing that a pilgrim walk is not complete without the return leg. My conversion was quite sudden. Having walked to Rome in 2010, on my return I was challenged […]

Review: Ay! Eva Yerbabuena

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 28, 2015

By Bess Twiston-Davies Was it a foot? Or was it an instrument? Hard to tell, so fluid was the sound of Eva Yerbabuena’s mint-sharp zapateo. There was a seamless echo – foot, music, sound – all melding together into one. Mesmerising. This was Ay!, her 2013 choreography on a second visit to Sadler’s Wells. The […]

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Brexit: A Leap in the Dark

“El Da Vinci español que dijo ‘no’ a Apple”. Rodrigo Garcia, becado por la BritishSpanish Society y Telefónica en 2013

Artist Felicia Browne: The first Briton to die in the Spanish Civil War

Jornadas de Teatro Clasico in Almeria

The BritishSpanish Society Prize sponsored by the University of Wales Press and Iberian and Latin American Studies Series

Celebrating 100 years

Cien años de lazos diplomáticos entre Shakespeare y Cervantes

Antonio Najarro: Dance Fusions

On foot from Madrid to London

Review: Ay! Eva Yerbabuena

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