Dr Peter Gold is Principal Lecturer and Head of the School of European and International Area Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is the author of A Stone in Spain's Shoe: The Search for a Solution to the Problem of Gibraltar (1994) and Europe or Africa: A Contemporary Study of the Spanish North African Enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (2000).

• 1: Introduction2: British Gibraltar (1704-1963) 3: Gibraltar Incommunicado (September 1963 - October 1979) 4: The Lisbon Agreement (July 1979 - April 1980) 5: Spain's approaches to NATO (June 1980 - March 1982) 6: 'Different and distant'?: the Falklands/Malvinas dispute (April - June 1982) 7: Spain joins NATO but the border remains closed (May - October 1982) 8: Felipe opens the gates (October - December 1982) 9: Towards the Brussels Declaration (March 1983 - November 1984) 10: The Border is fully opened; negotiations get under way (January - February 1985) 11: Osmosis begins (February - November 1985) 12: Sovereignty and sovereigns (December 1985 - April 1986) 13: Into Felipe's second term: guards and gates (June 1986 - January 1987) 14: The battle over the airport (January - December 1987) 15: Gibraltarians vote to resist (December 1987 - March 1988) 16: First visits by first ladies (April - December 1988) 17: The Bossano Strategy (January - February 1989) 18: A European Hong Kong? (March - December 1989) 19: Tackling money-laundering and smuggling (February - December 1990) 20: Felipe visits London (January - May 1991) 21: Four more years for Joe Bossano (May 1991 - January 1992) 22: The external frontier issue remains unresolved (February 1992 - March 1993) 23: Setbacks in moves towards economic independence (April 1993 - April 1994) 24: The Brussels Declaration ten years on: slow progress on all fronts (June - December 1994) 25: Defiant Bossano finally gives way (January - July 1995) 26: Changing Spanish attitudes? (July 1995 - April 1996) 27: All change, but no change: Aznar, Caruana and Blair in power (May 1996 - June 1997) 28: Spain's full integration into NATO (May - December 1997) 29: The shadow of the shared sovereignty proposal (January - December 1998)30: Confrontation sparked by fishing row escalates (January - March 1999) 31: Border events continue to predominate (April - July 1999) 32: A second term and a satisfying agreement for Caruana (August 1999 - April 2000) 33: The saga of HMS Tireless (I) (May - December 2000) 34: The saga of HMS Tireless (II) (January - May 2001)35: The Brussels Process resumed (May - October 2001) 36: Piqué and Straw meet in Barcelona (November 2001) 37: Rumours of joint sovereignty proposals (November 2001 - January 2002) 38: Gibraltarians plan their resistance (February 2002) 39: Gibraltarians take to the streets (March - April 2002) 40: Negotiations run into difficulties (April - May 2002) 41: Straw announces agreed principles (June - July 2002) 42: Gibraltar holds its own referendum (July - November 2002) 43: Recognition of democratic reality (December 2002 - June 2003) 44: Conclusion Appendix 1: The Treaty of Utrecht (2 - 13 July 1713)Appendix 2: The Lisbon Agreement (10 April 1980)Appendix 3: The Brussels Declaration (27 November 1984)