Historia e historiadores en la dictadura franquista (1939-1975)El consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas y la construcción de la historiografía española

Abstract

The outcome of the Civil War brought an end to the scientific program that had been implemented during the first third of the 20th century by the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios. The new regime under Franco developed a completely different concept of science, with a markedly ultramontane approach based on nationalist and Catholic precepts. The consequences for teaching and research staff, especially the fragile framework built up by the JAE, were dramatic: the disappearance of some teachers and their disciples also entailed the disappearance of scientific schools and lines of research that had already been consolidated on the international scientific scene or were still being developed. The creation of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish Council for Scientific Research) November 1939 and its constitution as the supreme body of Spanish high culture was one of the pivotal moments in shaping a new academic order under the auspices of the Franco regime. This, together with its close connections with the University network, constituted the framework for the development of a body of historiography at first dominated by the recovery of the most ultramontane conservative precepts and the search for its own space in a professional community that had to be restructured after the exile, purge processes and the rewards resulting from ideological affinities...