CHAPTER 0: Introduction 0.1. The significance of the historiography of foreign language teaching 0.2. Approaches 0.3. Publications on the historiography of foreign language teaching in Spain 0.4. The historiography of English language teaching in Spain: A retrospective 0.5. Methodology of the present work CHAPTER 1: The inception of ELT in Spain (1769-1850) 1.1. Political and socio-cultural framework 1.2. The socio-cultural context 1.3. European foreign language teaching framework 1.4. The origins of ELT in Spain: where and how 1.4.1. Where was English taught between 1769 and 1850? 1.4.2. How was English taught? 1.5. Conclusion CHAPTER 2: ELT in Spain (1850-1910), further development 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Spain 2.2.1. Official legislation: Public instruction and Commercial Studies 2.2.2. Authors and their manuals: underlying foreign language methods 2.2.3. Institutions and private academies 2.2.4. Theoretical works on ELT in Spain 2.3. Conclusion CHAPTER 3: ELT in Spain between 1910 and 1970 3.1. Introduction 3.2. The new actors in ELT: Britain and the USA 3.2.1. Harold Edward Palmer 3.2.2. Albert Sydney Hornby 3.2.3. Michael Philip West 3.2.4. Charles Carpenter Fries 3.3. Europe and Spain in the 1950s and 1960s: so close and so far away 3.4. The Spanish tradition 3.4.1. ELT in Spain between 1910 and 1970: Official legislation 3.5. ELT in Spain between 1910 and 1970: The private sector 3.5.1. Private academies 3.6. Overview of English manuals in Spain between 1910 and 1970 3.7. Teaching English beyond manuals: the exceptional cases of Juan Carrión and Patricia Shaw Fairman 3.7.1. Juan Carrión and The Beatles 3.7.2. English through the theatre 3.8. Conclusion Bibliography Appendix I Appendix II Index