all posts More than words: conservation of documents and cultural heritage It’s unquestionable the importance of conserving books and other types of documents. They are a narrated testimony of our human lives and can give us specific information to better understand...
all posts Looking at the Architecture of Need: Reappropriating Community Facilities in Portugal (1945-1985) The Architecture of Need: Community Facilities in Portugal 1945-1985 is the title of a new transdisciplinary research project that looks at the commission,...
all posts The path of two separated sisters: botany and agriculture Botany is the science that studies the plant world from all points of view and in all its different aspects. Currently encompasses a series of disciplines that study the metabolism, reproduction,...
all posts History and crop science converge through genomics and ancient DNA Plant science, and particularly crop science, always benefited from the historical contextualization of their scientific findings. This cross-disciplinary interchange has been important to...
all posts Christmas time: sweets for the body and soul Christmas is coming. A time of celebration that only ends with the epiphany. In the Catholic world, since ancient times, this day comes after the Advent feast, which started a month earlier and goes until December...
all posts Archives: essential labs to make history Archives are indispensable laboratories for making History. They are “irreplaceable witness to past events, underpinning democracy, the identity of individuals and communities, and human rights”, as defined by the...
