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The receptivity of the concepts and messages embedded in video games, as well as their use in education, have already been investigated in various social science disciplines. However, the video game medium still suffers from a lack of consideration by historians and struggles to establish itself as a real object of investigation, even though there are many titles dealing with historical themes. In this unguarded margin, stereotypes, historical fallacies and distorted narratives have potential space to proliferate. The paper aims to analyse the legacies and imaginaries of Sid Meier’s Civilization saga, considered one of the most famous history-themed strategy video games in the world.

The proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, which was welcomed enthusiastically in many sectors, ushered in a period of social progress and change. Nevertheless, conservative Catholic sectors of society were wary of the secularizing spirit of Republican legislation, especially those that affected the field of education, such as the dissolution of the Society of Jesus or the Law of Religious Confessions and Congregations, which had traditionally been dominated by religious orders. In this paper we will analyze the influence exerted by the new drafting of the constitution and an emerging republican culture on Catholic private schools in the city of Valladolid through its effect on religious practices and direct impact on the emergence of a spirit of resistance to the republican government that manifested itself in a number of ways.

This article studies debates about anarchist education in Spain, and other countries, where debates redounded, during the last third of 19th century. A bibliographic review, reading of some classic texts on socialist and anarchist thought, and analysis of archive sources, allow this investigation to reconstruct anarchist pedagogical knowledge, such as it was composed with discourses and practices of anarchist theorist and militants. Finally, this paper shows the formulation of a definition of anarchist education before Francisco Ferrer’s rationalist school.