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In the index below, articles from past editions are classified under the following topic areas:

Art and photography

Cataluña

Environment

Exams: A level / Pre-U

Film

Latin America: literature

Latin America: politics/society

Latin America: visiting

Oxbridge

Quizzes/Competitions

Spain: business/economy

Spain: history

Spain/Latin America

Spain: literature

Spain: politics/society

Spain/UK

Spanish Language

Study of Spanish

Third-year abroad

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Index:

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 p36 拉丁美洲摄影研究:批判性见解与方法论》

6.2 p38 Hispanists’ delight: art treasures come to London’s Royal Academy

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

Environment

4.3 p36 Costa Rica (tourism/environment)

5.1 p29 Iberian lynx

Exams: A level / Pre-U 

1.1 p15 Pre-U Topics

1.2 p 26 Pre-U Texts (i)

1.3 item 6 Pre-U Texts (ii)

1.4 p2 Pre-U speaking

2.1 p28 re-marks

2.1 p30 Pre-U feedback

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 p3 Pre-U 2022-24 syllabus

3.1 p7 teaching Pre-U Paper 4 (Topics and Texts)

3.3 p18 effect of pandemic

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

1.3 item 8 Studying film

2.2 item 8 Borges / Almodóvar

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)

4.2 p25 El silencio de otros

5.1 p50 Pedro Páramo y el cine

5.2 p10 Almodóvar: Madres paralelas

5.2 p34 Almodóvar quiz

6.2 p14 La historia oficial: Argentina’s warning from the past

Latin America: literature

1.1 p10 Borges

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 8 Borges / Almodóvar

2.2 item 10 Eva Luna (Isabel Allende)

2.3 p11 Como agua para chocolate (Critical Guide)

3.1 p16 Neruda

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)

3.3 p37 pandemic quiz

4.1 p39 César Vallejo

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 p32 Violeta Parra

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’

Latin America: politics/society

1.1 p4-6 Venezuela (2017)

1.4 p7 last days of the Castros

1.4 p11 Patagonia

1.4 p22 quinceañera celebrations

2.1 p18 Mexico City metro

2.1 p21 Mexico today

3.1 p12 political unrest (Arg/Chile/Colombia/Ecuador)

3.2 p6 Chile / Argentina

3.2 p10 Venezuela (the past century)

3.3 p34 Mafalda

4.1 p6 Peru / pandemic

4.1 p9 tourism / pandemic

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 p41 Maradona

4.2 p46 Cuba: una lectura crítica

4.2 p54 response to pandemic (Feb 2021)

4.3 p33 Chile (constitutional reform)

5.2 p18 sex, shame and power

5.2 p23 Chile / Boric / ascenso de la izquierda

5.3 p32 Violeta Parra

5.3 p40 Falklands War / end of military dictatorships

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 p14 La historia oficial: Argentina’s warning from the past

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

Latin America: visiting

1.4 p9 Cuba

3.2 p6 Chile / Argentina

4.1 p9 tourism/pandemic

4.3 p36 Costa Rica (tourism/environment)

5.1 p39 Florida

5.2 p26 Mexico revisited

Oxbridge

1.2 p19 onward: three articles on Applications and interviews

Quizzes/Competitions

3.3 p37-8 Pandemic quiz (on the theme of illness in Spanish-language film/literature)

5.2 p34 Almodóvar

6.1 p3-5, 6-8 Sixth Form Essay Competition 2022

Spain: business/economy

1.2 p31 Spanish wine

1.3 item 3 Valentine’s Day marketing

3.3 p11 tourism

4.1 p9 tourism/pandemic

5.2 p30 Spain’s transition to high-income status

6.2 p3 Spain in 2023: high-stakes economics

Spain: history

2.1 p9 Transition

2.3 p6 40 years of democracy

3.1 p14 Women in the Spanish Civil War

3.3 p23 Arturo Barea / Unamuno

4.1 p12 Ex-King Juan Carlos

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

5.3 p19 Civil War museum

Spain/Latin America

1.4 p4 early 2018 political round-up

2.1 p25 mid-2018 round-up 

2.2 item 3 early 2019 round-up

5.1 p36 Columbus Day / Día de la raza 

Spain: literature

1.2 p28 Miguel Hernández

1.4 p18 Soldados de Salamina

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)

3.3 p20 Sepúlveda

3.3 p37 pandemic quiz

4.1 p47 Ruiz Zafón

5.2 p15 Lorca

5.3 p24 Cercas – Soldados de Salamina (remembrance)

5.3 p28 Sabina (lyrics as literature)

6.1 p6 Emilia Bazán

6.1 p30 Javier Marías

Spain: politics/society

1.3 item 9 Operación Triunfo

2.1 p13 Valle de los Caídos

2.1 p9 Transition 

2.2 item 4 Vox

2.2 item 5 Valle de los Caídos

2.3 p3 2019 election

2.3 p6 40 years of democracy

3.1 p10 compromise and confrontation in Spanish politics

3.2 Spain’s new Government (January 2020)

3.3 p2 pandemic

3.3 p7 need for consensus

4.1 p3 pandemic/corruption

4.1 p12 Ex-King Juan Carlos

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

Spain/UK

2.2 item 6 Gibraltar

4.3 p30 Brexit

5.3 p14 why I became Spanish

6.1 p35 John Brande Trend, Hispanist/Musicologist

Spanish Language

1.1 p8 teaching irregular preterites

1.2 p24 teaching subjunctives

1.3 item 4 ser estar

2.2 item 11 Spanglish

2.2 item 12 is Spanish sexist?

2.3 p8 Language on loan

3.1 p26 American Spanish

3.2 p14 Spanish in the USA

4.3 p11 becoming a translator

5.1 p20 translation: agonies and rewards

5.2 p6 translation in the classroom

6.1 p42 ¡Venga!

Study of Spanish

1.4 p14 future of Spanish in the UK

1.4 p20 prospects for a Language graduate

2.1 p32 text books

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 p3 Survey – results

5.1 p10 reforming A level

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

5.3 p4 how to improve A level

Third year abroad

1.3 p8 Argentina

3.3 p15 Chile / effects of pandemic

4.1 p18 benefits to students / effects of pandemic5.3 p12 Canary Islands