What was needed in Spain was an institution which would create a sound tradition of English teaching and establish cultural relations between scientists, historians and men of letters as well as between students of the two countries, an institution which would be a genuine home of English life and thought, a centre of British Humanism. 1 Supo vencer al principio de su gestión, con gran tacto, las dificultades inherentes a la mayor o menor germanofilia que entonces pudiera haber en España. 2 The British Council of Madrid was established in September 1940. The Council's first branch in Spain included an English language institute, a cultural centre and a school for children. Surprisingly, scholarly researchers have not yet properly examined the British Council's foundation in Spain nor the institutional history of the British Council School in Madrid, even eight decades after its foundation.Based on British, American and Spanish sources, the first half of this study, published in a previous Issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, set

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