Julio Gil PecharrománJulio Gil Pecharromán is a Spanish historian, specialising in the political history of 20th-century Spain.BiographyBorn in Madrid in 1955, he studied both History and Journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid. He earned a PhD in history from the UCM in 1983, reading a dissertation titled Renovación española, una alternativa monárquica a la Segunda República and supervised by Carlos Seco Serrano. The thesis, that dealt with the alfonsine authoritarian Renovación Española party, was re-published in 1985. A lecturer for 8 years at the UCM, Gil Pecharromán was appointed as senior lecturer of Contemporary History at the National University of Distance Education in 1987.Works*