This book provides to the readers with a new look into the Spanish History through political cartoons, its iconography and its symbols. To get that renewed view of our history, the book is based in a wide variety of writing sources and, additionally, it displays over 300 pictures, many of them unpublished or difficult to access. These are part of a really reach visual culture and, at the same time, a living testimony to the history of the reign of Isabel II, the revolution of 1868 and the First Republic (1873). The political cartoons were disseminated through different means, from periodicals, “hallelujahs”, photomontages, cards…up to matchbox labels that became very popular at that time. To have a better idea of how the social imaginaries are built and spread in Contemporary Spain, the speech drawn in all that visual sources, their authors, the cartoonist, the journalist, the editors, the printers, the lithographers, etc. are key elements. Furthermore, the reader will find in this book a large number of QR Codes that allows to see many of the pictures, originally published in a big size, in great detail. The pictures can also be downloaded in high resolution at the University of Cantabria press website.