Isabel Baltazar was admitted as a Corresponding Academician to the Portuguese Academy of History, a scientific institution of public utility that brings together specialists ‘who are dedicated to the documentary and critical reconstruction of the past, materialised in...
As 2024 drew to a close, Museums and Monuments in Portugal announced the appointment of Gonçalo de Carvalho Amaro as the new director of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon. The IHC researcher was previously an employee of the Culture Directorate of the Santa...
The exhibition O humor unido jamais será vencido: os cartoons da Revolução (1974 – 1976) [Humour united will never be defeated: the cartoons of the Revolution (1974 – 1976)], curated by historian Paulo Jorge Fernandes, opened on 17 December at the Bordalo Pinheiro...
It is with great sadness that the IHC announces the death of António Pedro Vicente, Emeritus Researcher at the Institute. António Pedro Vicente received his doctorate in History from the University of Paris/Nanterre. He was a Full Professor at the NOVA University of...
The exhibition about the Portuguese who were deported to the Third Reich and subjected to forced labour in the Nazi concentration system, initially designed for the Cultural Centre of Belém, has now been extended and renovated at the Museum of Neo-Realism in Vila...
Chilean historian Ricardo Pérez Haristoy was the winner of the third edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize, an award promoted by the Institute of Contemporary History and the Monument to the Discoveries / EGEAC. The prize was awarded for the article ‘South America’s...