Francisco Alía Miranda

Francisco Alía Miranda (born 1960) is a Spanish historian. He has focused on the study of 20th century Spanish history. He has also published works dealing with the methodology of history.

A pupil of Manuel Espadas Burgos, Alía Miranda earned a PhD in Contemporary History from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). A senior lecturer at the University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM), he has been employed by the UCLM since 1988. He served as president of the Instituto de Estudios Manchegos from 2010 to 2017.

He was appointed as full professor at the UCLM in 2019.