On Friday 12 March, the Fundación Hispánico Británica presents its XXV Forum, which will deal with the History of Spanish-British Relations in the Modern and Contemporary Ages.
The Forum will begin at 10 a.m. and is scheduled to end at 12.40 p.m. (with a 10-minute break at 11.30 a.m.). In order to be able to start on time, access will be open from 9.30 a.m. The forum will be opened by Pilar González-Baylin Nores, Executive President of the British-Spanish Foundation, and at 10.30 a.m. the conference Elizabeth I and her privateers. Historical and literary impact of the assaults on Spanish coasts in the Golden Age, to be given by Dr. María Lara Martínez, lecturer in Modern History at the UDIMA (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid); followed at 11 a.m. by Dr. Francisco Javier Castro Molina, lecturer at the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria Nursing School (University of La Laguna) and the UNED Associated Centre of Tenerife in the lecture Un desencuentro en el Atlántico: Horatio Nelson y las Islas Canarias (A disagreement in the Atlantic: Horatio Nelson and the Canary Islands). At 11.40 a.m., Dr. Francisco Glicerio Conde Mora, lecturer at the CUE Salus Infirmorum (attached to the UCA), will speak on Dª Victoria Eugenia de Battenberg and Dª Beatriz de Sajonia-Coburgo, ending at 12.10 p.m. with a lecture entitled Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg y Eduardo VIII. Abdications and renunciations to the throne of Spain and the United Kingdom in the interwar period, given by Dr. Laura Lara Martínez, professor of Contemporary History at the UDIMA (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid). Registration is required at this link.
