The history of Gibraltar from the Second World War is characterized by two main elements: the increasing autonomy and self-government achieved by Gibraltarians and the re-emergence of the Spanish claim, especially during the years of the Francoist dictatorship.

Immigration from Spain and intermarriage with Spaniards from the surrounding Spanish towns was a constant feature of Gibraltar's history until the then Spanish dictator, General Francisco Franco, closed the border with Gibraltar in 1969, cutting off many Gibraltarians from their relatives on the Spanish side of the frontier.

The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Portugal and Spain, and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

John Constable said in the 1830s that it was " almost a history of the defence of Gibraltar ".

: For full articles on the history of the north Gibraltar shore, see History of Gibraltar or History of Spain.

For the full article on the history of the south Gibraltar shore, see History of Morocco.

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Category: Military history of Gibraltar

* Military history of Gibraltar during World War II

* Military history of Gibraltar during World War II

This history has inspired the saying " solid as the Rock of Gibraltar ", which is used to describe a person or situation that cannot be overcome and does not fail.

( see: Military history of Gibraltar during World War II ).

Category: Military history of Gibraltar

Category: Military history of Gibraltar

Category: Military history of Gibraltar

* Military history of Gibraltar during World War II

* Military history of Gibraltar during World War II

The town hall is an impressive building and the museum presents pictures of the island with dramatic presentation of its military history ; the town and the island having earned the epithet " Gibraltar of the Channel " during war time.

; Main Article: Postage stamps and postal history of Gibraltar

As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ.

Haeckel ’ s ‘ Biogenetic Law ’ portrays the parallel relationship between an embryo ’ s development and phylogenetic history.

On the ground floor it portrays the history and development of Bayreuth from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century with a model of the town in the year 1763.

* The Upper Franconia Prehistory Museum portrays the history of life in Upper Franconia since the beginning of the world.

Gerald was proud to be related to some of the Norman invaders of Ireland, such as his maternal uncle Robert Fitz-Stephen and Raymond FitzGerald, and his influential account, which portrays the Irish as barbaric savages, gives important insight into Anglo-Norman views of Ireland and the history of the invasion.

Multiethnic history recognizes the numerous peoples in Ukraine ; transnational history portrays Ukraine as a border zone for various empires ; and area studies categorizes Ukraine as part of Eurasia, or more often as part of East-Central Europe.

Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride, for the symphonic cycle Má vlast (" My Fatherland "), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land, and for his First String Quartet From My Life.

Thus, the latter museum, whose walls are lined with plaques memorializing over 2, 000 Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, portrays the Holocaust as a continuation of the " death and destruction " that plagued Jewish communities throughout Jewish history.

At the outset, Prince Hal seems to pale in comparison with the fiery Henry Percy, the young noble lord of the North ( whom Shakespeare portrays considerably younger than he was in history in order to provide a foil for Hal ).

In his best-selling history, Gallipoli ( 2001 ) Les Carlyon agrees that the film unfairly portrays the English during the battle and Carlyon lays the blame squarely at the feet of Antill and 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade commander Brigadier General Frederic Hughes —" The scale of the tragedy of the Nek was mostly the work of two Australian incompetents, Hughes and Antill.

Huxley portrays various aspects of his ideology about subjects such as God, sex, history, literature, intellect and death.

Roger MacBride Allen's Caliban trilogy portrays several years in the history of Inferno, a planet where Spacers recruit Settlers to rebuild the collapsing ecology.

Chinese military scholars argue that their nation has a long history of conducting " psychological operations ," a phrase that connotes important aspects of strategic deception and, to a certain degree, what the US Department of Defense portrays as perception management.

This period of the theatre's history is affectionately depicted in Pinero's play Trelawny of the ' Wells ' ( 1898 ), which portrays Sadler's Wells as outmoded by the new fashion for realism.

This story portrays women as strong characters who have the power to alter the course of history, demonstrating Alvarez's affinity for strong female protagonists and anti-colonial movements.

Although Miller understood the actual history of the events, William Stoughton is not a character in the play, and Miller portrays Danforth as a domineering and selfish judge, under whose authority many are imprisoned and sentenced to hang.

Popular history which portrays Clark as a military genius who conquered the Old Northwest.

The film portrays King Sebastian as obsessed with his place in history and with his own myth of himself, while creating violent situations all around him.

The Arend Dieperink Museum portrays the history of the town, from the ape-man at Makapansgat, bushman drawings and early activities in the area up to the Anglo Boer War and recent times.

While his first novel portrays the political climate in 1940s Martinique, through the story of a group of young revolutionaries, his subsequent work focuses on questions of language, identity, space and history.

The Comédie humaine frequently portrays the complex emotional, social and financial relationships between fathers and their children, and between father-figures and their mentors, and these relationships are metaphorically linked as well with issues of nationhood ( the king as father, regicide ), nobility ( bloodlines, family names ), history ( parental secrets ), wealth ( the origin of parental fortunes, dowries ) and artistic creation ( the writer or artist as father of the work of art ).

portrays neo-Stalinism as a " Slavophile emphasis on Russia and her history ": " what is called neo-Stalinism is not exclusively an expression of a desire to control, dominate, repress and dragoon ; it is also the expression of a desire that Russia, while making use of western science and technology, should avoid contamination by western ' degenerate ' attitudes and pursue her own path.

In June 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin organized a conference for history teachers to promote a high-school teachers manual called A Modern History of Russia: 1945-2006: A Manual for History Teachers, which according to Irina Flige, office director of human rights organization Memorial, portrays Stalin as a cruel but successful leader who " acted rationally ", no matter that he executed millions of Soviet citizens.