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Latin America: business/economics
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Latin America: popular culture
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Art and photography
6.2 p29 Book review published in 3 languages, as follows:
6.2 p30 The Study of Photography in Latin America
6.2 p33 El estudio de la fotografía en América Latina
6.2 p38 Hispanists’ delight: art treasures come to London’s Royal Academy
7.2 p34-37 the study of visual images (part 1)
7.3 p24 the study of visual images (part 2)
Cataluña
1.2 special edition on Catalan Independence crisis
- Historical overview
- Personal impact
- Call for International support
- Critique of the 2017 push for independence
2.2 item 2: Reino Unido de España y Cataluña
8.1 p33 Catalonia’s new normal
Environment
4.3 p36 Costa Rica (tourism/environment)
Essay Competitions
6.1 p3-5, 6-8 Sixth Form Essay Competition 2022
7.1 p3-4 2023 Sixth Form Essay competition: results
7.1 p5-6 2023 Sixth Form Essay competition: winner
7.1 p7-8 2023 Sixth Form Essay competition: runner-up
7.3 p4 2024 essay competition launch
8.1 p5 2024 competition: judges’ verdict
8.1 p7 2024 winner: La llorona
8.3 p74 2025 Essay Competition
Exams: A level / Pre-U
2.2 item 7 Pre-U Prepared Oral Topic
2.3 p16 teaching the Pre-U texts
2.3 p19 popular Pre-U speaking topics in 2019
3.1 p7 teaching Pre-U Paper 4 (Topics and Texts)
4.2 p10 transitioning from Pre-U to A level
5.3 p4 how to improve Modern Languages A level
6.1 p9 IRP in Spanish A level: teacher perspective
6.1 p13 IRP in Spanish A level: student perspective
Film
2.2 item 9 Argentina film (Historias Mínimas/Familia Rodante)
2.3 p14 Almodóvar: Dolor y gloria (i)
3.1 p23 Almodóvar: Dolor y gloria (ii)
3.1 p25 football/cinema relationship
4.1 p21 teaching film / Black Lives Matter
4.2 p14 portrayal of Mexico (Roma / La zona)
5.1 p50 Pedro Páramo y el cine
5.2 p10 Almodóvar: Madres paralelas
6.2 p14 La historia oficial: Argentina’s warning from the past
7.1 p41-43 Almodóvar and Lorca
8.1 p18 Visual theory and the global south
8.2 p44 Almodóvar: ‘The room next door’
8.2 p47 Almodóvar connections quiz
Home
7.2 p1-2 Bienvenidos al Boletín de primavera…
8.1 p3 Bienvenidos al Boletín – otoño de 2024
8.2 p3 ¡Bienvenidos al Bulletin de primavera de 2025!
8.3 p2 Home Page (Bienvenidos)
Latin America: business/economics
7.2 p17-21 can Milei halt Argentina’s long decline?
8.1 p12 Spanish Language / business interest
Latin America: global
8.2 p16 David Reiff: malestar moral y la busca de una nueva narrativa
Latin America: history
1.4 p7 last days of the Castros
3.2 p10 Venezuela (the past century)
4.1 p29 the myth of racial democracy (Cuba / Brazil)
4.2 p46 Cuba: una lectura crítica
5.3 p40 Falklands War / end of military dictatorships
6.2 p14 La historia oficial: Argentina’s warning from the past
7.1 p26-29 Malcolm Deas, Colombian hero
7.3 p5 Buenos Aires / Edificio Kavanagh / Corina Kavanagh
Latin America: literature
1.3 item 7 La tía Julia y el escribidor (Vargas Llosa)
2.1 p2 García Márquez: Del amor y otros demonios
2.2 item 10 Eva Luna (Isabel Allende)
2.3 p11 Como agua para chocolate (Critical Guide)
3.2 p14 Neruda (Canto General) / Mexican muralists
3.2 p21 Como agua para chocolate through the eyes of a Pre-U student
3.2 p23 Borges (Ambiguity / duality – El encuentro / El sur)
3.3 p25 Borges (La muerte y la brújula)
3.3 p30 Crónica de una muerte anunciada (morality)
4.2 p20 César Aira’s La villa (fake news / fake fate)
4.3 p40 Crónica de una muerte anunciada (key exam points)
4.3 p47 Alejandra Pizarnik (La jaula)
5.1 p47 Como agua para chocolate – 30th anniversary review
5.1 p50 Pedro Páramo y el cine
5.3 p38 Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Critical Guide)
6.1 p23 Crónica de una muerte anunciada – key points for exam success (update from 4.3 above)
6.2 p41 García Márquez’s ‘María dos Prazeres’
6.3 p10 Del amor y otros demonios
7.1 p5-6 Sábato el incendiario
7.2 p38-46 translating Latin American verse into Chinese
7.3 p30 La tía Julia y el escribidor (Vargas Llosa) – the artist/muse relationship
7.3 p34 El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Latin America: politics/society
1.4 p22 quinceañera celebrations
3.1 p12 political unrest (Arg/Chile/Colombia/Ecuador)
4.1 p29 the myth of racial democracy (Cuba / Brazil)
4.2 p14 portrayal of Mexico (Roma / La zona)
4.2 p35 Carlos Escudé – Argentine political thinker
4.2 p54 response to pandemic (Feb 2021)
4.3 p33 Chile (constitutional reform)
5.2 p23 Chile / Boric / ascenso de la izquierda
5.3 p45 Venezuela / Vanessa Neumann / liderazgo femenino
5.3 p50 Gustavo Petro / Colombia / populismo
6.1 p17 Por qué Chile rechazó la nueva Constitución
6.2 p7 La democracia en peligro
6.2 p20 Latin American football: colonialism, the “chilena” and the “autopase”
6.2 p25 Beauty Queens: the marriage of Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico
6.3 p33 China’s growing interest
6.3 p37 migración ilegal a los Estados Unidos
7.1 p7-8 Bolivia’s fighting cholitas
7.1 p26-29 Malcolm Deas, Colombian hero
7.2 p12-16 “Amo a mi país pero la mejor decisión que he tomado es salir”
7.2 ‘I love my country but leaving it was the best decision I ever made.’
7.2 p22-26 the likely social cost of Milei’s policies
7.2 p27-31 el voto hispano en EEUU (Spanish) (English)
7.3 p11 Miami, expatriados, destino artístico
7.3 p18 crime / punitive populism in El Salvador and Ecuador
7.3 p24 Mexico City / violence
8.1 p21 El progresismo orwelliano
8.3 p58 Hogar el Alba children’s home – centenary
Latin America: popular culture
8.2 p30 Magical realism on Netflix
8.2 p11 Culture, agriculture and identity in the Mexican heartland
Latin America: visiting
4.3 p36 Costa Rica (tourism/environment)
Literature: study
8.3 p31 Literature study: key points for exam success
8.3 p32 practical tips for teaching A-level literature
8.3 p32 answering the question
8.3 p33 explaining the author’s intent
Oxbridge
1.2 p19 onward: three articles on Applications and interviews
Quizzes
3.3 p37-8 Pandemic quiz (on the theme of illness in Spanish-language film/literature)
8.2 p47 Almodóvar connections quiz
Religion
Spain: business/economy
1.3 item 3 Valentine’s Day marketing
5.2 p30 Spain’s transition to high-income status
6.2 p3 Spain in 2023: high-stakes economics
Spain: history
3.1 p14 Women in the Spanish Civil War
3.3 p23 Arturo Barea / Unamuno
4.1 p34 Microhistoria de España
4.2 p31 Arturo Barea / Struggle for the Spanish Soul
5.2 p30 Spain’s transition to high-income status
6.3 p56 Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona
7.1 p30-33 Jews and Moslems in Spain and Latin America
7.1 p38-40 Carmen Laforet / Nada
7.3 p48 Portugal and Spain / 50 years of democracy
8.1 p30 Madrid: a new biography
8.2 p58 El camino: Spain’s path to inner peace
Spain/Latin America
1.4 p4 early 2018 political round-up
2.2 item 3 early 2019 round-up
5.1 p36 Columbus Day / Día de la raza
Spain: literature
2.3 p10 Serrat / Sabina: special supplement (3 articles in Spanish, two in English)
3.1 p19 María de Zayas / Golden Age
3.2 p32 Don Quijote (postmodernism)
3.2 p38 Golden Age comedies (staging of)
5.3 p24 Cercas – Soldados de Salamina (remembrance)
5.3 p28 Sabina (lyrics as literature)
6.3 p10 teaching literature in the 21st century
7.1 p38-40 Carmen Laforet / Nada
7.1 p41-43 Lorca and Almodóvar
7.2 p3-5 Lorca on the London stage
8.1 p25 Joaquín Sabina: language and lyrics
8.2 p33 from Galdós to Lorca: bad times in Spain
Spain: politics/society
2.2 item 5 Valle de los Caídos
3.1 p10 compromise and confrontation in Spanish politics
3.2 Spain’s new Government (January 2020)
4.2 p25 El silencio de otros / effect on Spanish society
4.2 p28 Ley de memoria democrática
4.3 p15 post-Covid challenges and opportunities
4.3 p23 immigration (via Morocco/Ceuta)
6.1 p35 John Brande Trend, Hispanist/Musicologist
6.3 p22 Spain’s strengths and weaknesses post-1975
6.3 p29 sexismo en la educación privada
7.1 p41-43 Lorca and Almodóvar
7.2 p32-33 challenging times for Spain
8.1 p33 Catalonia’s new normal
8.2 p33 from Galdós to Lorca: bad times in Spain
8.2 p37 Fifty years of freedom
8.3 p7 The challenges facing Spain
8.3 p23 Ley de Memoria Democrática
Spain: sport
Spain/UK
6.1 p35 John Brande Trend, Hispanist/Musicologist
7.1 p10-16 Instituto Cervantes en Londres
7.2 p3-5 Lorca on the London stage
8.2 p49 Los curiosos impertinentes: hispanófilos intrépidos británicos
8.3 p66 Los curiosos impertinentes (travel history)
Spanish Language
1.1 p8 teaching irregular preterites
2.2 item 12 is Spanish sexist?
5.1 p20 translation: agonies and rewards
5.2 p6 translation in the classroom
7.1 p10-16 Instituto Cervantes en Londres
Study of Spanish
1.4 p14 future of Spanish in the UK
1.4 p20 prospects for a Language graduate
2.1 p35 undergraduates mentoring school students
4.2 p3 global popularity of Spanish
4.3 p3 why languages need a re-brand
4.3 p7 Survey for teachers and students
5.1 p15 teaching during lockdown
5.1 p25 lo uno y lo diverso (oddities of Spanish / regional variations)
5.2 p3 reforming A level to include business & econ/film-making/science & tech
8.1 p10 Why speak Spanish? (Global growth of Spanish.)
Third year abroad
3.3 p15 Chile / effects of pandemic
4.1 p18 benefits to students / effects of pandemic5.3 p12 Canary Islands
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