Fusi Aizpurua, Juan Pablo

b. 1945, San Sebastián

   Historian

   After taking his doctorate at the Complutense University of Madrid, Fusi worked at St Antony's College, Oxford (1970–4 as Research Fellow, and 1976–9 as Director of the Iberian Centre), collaborating with Sir Raymond Carr on an important and influential study of the post-Franco transition, Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy (1979). From 1987 to 1990 Fusi was Director of the National Library of Spain, and since 1990 has been professor of Contemporary History at the Complutense. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1981). His publications include studies of labour politics in the Basque country, and a biography of Franco (1985). He holds an honorary doctorate from New York University.

   EAMONN RODGERS