Announcement of the 2025 Miguel Artola Prize from the Contemporary History Association. Isidro Román Lago In June 2025, the jury for the Miguel Artola Awards for the best doctoral thesis in history, comprising Carme Molinero, Mónica Moreno, María Cruz Romeo, Rafael Quirosa-Cheyrouze and Juan Pan-Montojo, awarded first prize to the thesis by HISTAGRA researcher and collaborator Isidro Román Lago. This research was part of the objectives of the research project ‘Violence, crime and conflict in times of peace and war in the rural world, 1850–1980’ – VIDECON – PID2023-152532NB-I00. KNOWLEDGE GENERATION 2023 – Research projects in the field. The decision was based on the following considerations: This is a thesis on the processes of transformation driven by the 1936 coup and the subse...