ABSTRACT
An analysis of Social History in Spain today must consider the responses by Spanish historians to certain recent debates, in particular those about the Linguistic Turn and Postmodernism. This can be presented in two sections. The first is a brief historical review of the different stages in Social History as a discipline in Spain, from its academic formalization to the present day. Within this general view two types of analysis are combined: (1) internal history, centered on epistemological and methodological alternatives in the discipline; and (2) external history, referring to political context and institutional structure. While taking into account the weight of this inheritance, the second part shall briefly attempt to explain the manner in which the Linguistic Turn and Postmodernism have been treated in Spanish historiography.
