Biography

Manuel Conceição, born in the city of Covilhã, graduated in History and Archaeology, specialising in History, from the University of Évora. He holds a master’s degree in Advanced Studies and Research in History (Societies, Powers, Identities) from the University of Salamanca. He was an intern at the Municipal Archive of Covilhã, which opened doors for him to join the team of the Creative City of Design of Covilhã as a historian. In 2023, he was part of the project as a Research Fellow, entitled ‘The threads of the past weaving the future: The colors from the Royal Textile Factory of Covilhã, 1764-1850’. Since December 2024, he has had a research scholarship funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology in a non-academic environment, with the thesis title ‘As elites políticas covilhanenses (1910-1974): uma análise social’ [The political elites of Covilhã (1910-1974): a social analysis]. His main research interests are: the textile industry; local history; socio-economic history; elites; political history.

Research fields

• Elites
• Social history
• Political History
• The textile industry

Selected publications

• Conceição, Manuel Carapito. “A História Local no mundo das Humanidades Digitais. O estudo de caso das elites políticas covilhanenses.” Medi@ções 9 (2021): 181–195. [link] 🔓
• Conceição, Manuel, “O Mundo Associativista como preparação das elites covilhanenses para o mundo político (1910 a 1926): o caso do Ginásio Clube da Covilhã e o Clube União da Covilhã,” in Atas V Congresso de História Local – Coimbra 2021, 39–54. Lisbon: HTC-NOVA FCSH/CEF-UC, 2021. [link] 🔓

Main projects

• ‘As elites políticas covilhanenses (1910 – 1974): uma análise social‘ [The political elites of Covilhã (1910–1974): a social analysis] — PhD thesis to be presented to the University of Évora, supervised by Maria de Fátima Nunes (IHC — University of Évora). Individual PhD project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2024.00547.BDANA). 2024-
• Research fellow of the project ‘The threads of the past weaving the future: The colors from the Royal Textile Factory of Covilhã, 1764-1850‘ — Coordinated by Paula Nabais (LAQV-REQUIMTE) and Rita Salvado (Wool Museum of the University of Beira Interior), and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2022.01243.PTDC; https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01243.PTDC).