Abstract
The goal of this research is to analyse the role played by social media, the periodicals library and access to public information when revisiting collective memory on the Spanish Transition. The analysis is carried out based on an unpublished interview to Adolfo Suarez in 1995. During the interview, and off-the-record, former Spanish president Adolfo Suarez confessed to journalist Victoria Prego that the monarchy was not subjected to referendum because the opinion polls suggested they would lose. Those statements came to light 20 years later, after a special TV program broadcast by La Sexta Columna that turned Adolfo Suarez into a trending topic for several days.
 
 Between 1955 and 1972 at least six opinion polls were carried out - perfectly documented and censored or silenced at the time - asking Spaniards about their preferences on the best government system for Spain.
Highlights
The goal of this research is to analyse the role played by social media, the periodicals library and access to public information when revisiting collective memory on the Spanish Transition
Off-the-record, former Spanish president Adolfo Suarez confessed to journalist Victoria Prego that the monarchy was not subjected to referendum because the opinion polls suggested they would lose
The goal of this research is to analyse the role played by social media, the periodicals library and journalistic memory when revisiting collective memory on the Spanish Transition
Summary
The goal of this research is to analyse the role played by social media, the periodicals library and journalistic memory when revisiting collective memory on the Spanish Transition This analysis came about from an unpublished interview to Adolfo Suarez by journalist Victoria Prego in 1995, which was broadcast 21 years later by TV program La Sexta Columna. Narrative after the broadcast of the interview urges us to discuss the role of access to public information when revisiting history (Cohen and Rosenzweig, 2005) as well as the framework of new technological media In this scenario, the role of historians is defined by the appearance of new material that can transform the predominant narrative on a specific fact: In this case, consensus on the monarchy as a stabilising institution during late Francoism (Payne, 2007) and the Spanish Transition (Pulpillo, 2016)
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