“The Andalusian press, a mirror of our history” starts with the very earliest forms of journalism, accounts of events, through to the ground-breaking role Andalusia assumed during the War of Independence and the Court of Cadiz. The Civil War, Franco's regime and the democratic transition are also considered in this report which pays tribute to the journalists and photographers who have marked the evolution of the press in Andalusia.

SPECIAL REPORT
Co-ordinated by the lecturer of the University of Seville, Concha Langa, this report offers an overview of five centuries in the history of the Andalusian press, from its earliest form of expression- accounts of recent events which described a single political event, leisure event or curiosity -through to its most modern format, digital press.  The first account of events published in Andalusia was printed in Seville in 1508 (describing Seville's reception for King Ferdinand), a genre which reached its peak in the 16th century and which gave rise to the beginnings of a new product in the 17th century, the gazettes (weekly newspapers with political, national and international information narrated in a concise manner). The printer Juan Gómez de Blas is a perfect example of this development: after publishing hundreds of accounts of events he started the publication of his own gazette.
Andalusia was at the vanguard of the country in terms of journalism during the War of Independence and the Court of Cadiz. At the dawn of the 20th century, the political press gave way to business press, some of which continue to draw the faithful to newsagents today. The report also considers the harsh years of the Civil War, when both sides struggled to control the media, and offers an overview of the press during the 40 years of Franco's regime until reaching democracy and the reorganisation of the journalism market with international characteristics. The key figures of this tumultuous period, the journalists and photographers, occupy a central role in this report, including Beatriz Cienfuegos, Alberto Lista, Blanco White, Abelardo de Carlos, Chaves Nogales, Ricardo, the Campúas and Rodri. 

ARTICLES
Gibraltar has all the characteristics for it to have been place of passage and/or residence for the first settlers of the old continent. Vicente Castañeda Fernández presents the conclusions of the latest research currently being carried out on both shores in search of traces of primitive man.
The historian Antonio Gil Ambrona offers an analysis of texts and jurisprudence from different periods which have served as both legal and moral justification, and even encouragement, for the exercise of violence by men against women.
Cadalso’s civic patriotism is the topic chosen by the writer José Manuel Pastor Tinoco, highlighting the open, balanced and integrating character of his way of understanding patriotism.
 
The creation-evolution debate was raised in Andalusia long before many other European regions. Seville, with Antonio Machado y Núñez, and Granada, with Rafael García Álvarez, were pioneers of the dissemination of Darwin's theories. The lecturer Encarnación Aguilar Criado puts the spotlight on this topic 200 years after Darwin's birth.
Admired by Borges, who considered him his maestro, Rafael Cansinos Assens has fallen into oblivion for many years. The work of this multifaceted polyglot and translator has been the topic of various publications in recent years. The author of this article is the writer Francisco Vélez Nieto.
Pablo Valdivia of the University of Nottingham reconsiders the journey of initiation which Lorca undertook throughout Andalusia and Castile, with the teachings of Professor Martín Domínguez Berrueta.
Verónica Sierra Blas considers the figure of Ramón Barranco, a volunteer in the Republican Army in July 1937 who offered literacy classes which were carried out during the conflict in the very trenches.
The journalist Francisco Solano Márquez considers the career of the Mayor Antonio Cruz Conde, a veritable talisman for the city of Cordoba and its development.

SECTIONS
A new section, Tiempo Presente (Present Time), is to be inaugurated in the Journal by an exceptional figure, the British hispanist John H. Elliott. An interview which reconsiders both his personal vocation for history and research and the role which historians must assume in the 21st century.
The work by the playwright José Martín Recuerda, the stories of romantic travellers in Andalusia, the House-Museum of Niceto Alcalá Zamora, the castles of Seville and the mining archives are the topics considered in the sections of this new issue.