The Canal That Never Was: Searching for a Lost Explanation Behind Gibraltar’s “Island” History
In my previous post (linked HERE), I shared 10 historical newspaper articles found on Newspapers.com that each refer to Gibraltar as an island before 1969. One of those articles dates all the way back to 1838 — nearly 200 years ago. This discovery forced me to ask a deeper question: Why has Gibraltar historically been […]
Gibraltar Referred to as an Island Before Franco’s Border Closure: Newspaper Evidence Predating 1969
As I explained in a previous post (linked HERE), the most common explanation I was given for why Gibraltar participates in the International Island Games Association is Franco’s border closure between 1969 and 1985. During that period, Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco shut the land border between Spain and Gibraltar as part of a sovereignty dispute […]
Gibraltar Referred to as an Island: Photographic Reality Residue (1935– )
In this post, I’ll be sharing five historic photographs that I purchased from historicimages.com. I acquired these images for one very specific reason: each one describes Gibraltar as an island. The key word I was intentionally searching for was island. That distinction matters. It isn’t casual wording — it’s evidence of something many of us […]