Last October, Eunice Relvas was appointed coordinator of Lisbon’s Municipal Newspaper Library. Until then, the IHC researcher had also been a researcher at the Lisbon City Council’s Gabinete de Estudos Olisiponenses, where she was developing a project on the councilors of the Lisbon City Council in the First Republic.

Eunice Relvas received her PhD in History in 2014 with the thesis “Eleições Municipais em Lisboa na I República (1910-1926)” [Municipal Elections in Lisbon in the First Republic (1910-1926)], presented to NOVA FCSH. She published, among others, the boooks “Esmola e Degredo. Mendigos e Vadios em Lisboa (1835-1910)” (Livros Horizonte, 2002) and “Coretos em Lisboa (1790-1990)“(Editorial Fragmentos, 1991) — co-authored with Pedro Bebiano Braga, winner of the Júlio Castilho Award. She is currently also the coordinator of the 1820 Revolution Bicentennial Municipal Commemorations.