Written by one of the 20th Century’s foremost historians of Iberia, Harold Livermore was a prize-winning author and one of the first anglophone scholars to research the annals of Spain and Portugal. This comprehensive book, originally published in 1971, covers the history of Spain and Portugal from the later Roman Empire, through the Hispano-Gothic Kingdom of Toledo up until the Muslim Invasions and the Reconquest Original review of A History of Spain: ‘Mr Livermore…has the ability to present an entirely clear picture of events…A History of Spain is a splendid and much-needed contribution to the field of Spanish studies.’ Gwendolin B. Cobb, The Americas, Vol 16 No. 3 (1960). Harold Livermore (1914-2010) was a major historian of Iberia.