Biography

Master in Contemporary History from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Author of “A Oposição ao Estado Novo no concelho de Almada (1933-1958)” [The Opposition to Estado Novo in the municipality of Almada (1933-1958)], based on his master’s thesis and published by Edições Colibri in 2019. During his master’s course, he collaborated with the Museum of the City of Almada gathering oral sources for the Archive of Oral Sources of that institution. He is currently carrying out his doctoral research at NOVA university Lisbon on resistance to the Estado Novo in the municipality of Almada between 1961 and 1974.

Research fields

• Local history
• Estado Novo
• Political oposition
• Cultural resistance

Selected publications

• Jorge, Paulo, “A polícia em Almada durante o Estado Novo (1933-1974),” in Polícia (s) e Segurança Pública: História e Perspetivas Contemporâneas, coordinated by Maria Fernanda Rollo, Adolfo Cueto-Rodríguez and Pedro Marques Gomes, 255-272. Lisbon: Museu da Polícia, 2020.
• Jorge, Paulo. A Oposição ao Estado Novo no concelho de Almada (1933-1958). Lisbon: Edições Colibri, 2019. [link]

Main projects

• “A resistência ao Estado Novo no concelho de Almada (1961-1974)” [Resistance to the Estado Novo in the municipality of Almada (1961-1974)] — PhD thesis to be presented to the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, supervised by Pedro Aires Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH). Individual PhD project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2021.04592.BD). 2021-
• Collaboration in the project “Lisboa em (r)evolução: o comércio e a cidade do final do século XIX ao Estado Novo” [Lisbon in (r)evolution: commerce and the city from the end of the 19th century to the Estado Novo] — Coordinated by Daniel Alves (IHC — NOVA FCSH). 2014