30 años de la revista Historia Contemporánea

Abstract

The journal 'Historia Contemporánea' was founded in 1988, within the Department of Contemporary History at the University of País Vasco. It was initiated by Manuel Tuñón de Lara, one of the most relevant Spanish historiographers at the end of Francoism. Since then, it has been one of the most prestigious Spanish history journals and, in recent years, it has also been one of the journals with the most editorial impact.

This article includes this publication's thirty years of history, and identifies its initial phases. Its evolution goes hand in hand with the changes that its coetaneous Spanish historiography has experienced, of which it has been a fundamental role model.

Both its content and its current layout are significant with regards to the progressive assimilation of the internationally followed patterns in scientific journals by the Spanish academic media.