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HISTAGRA launches the Four-Year Plan for Democratic Memory in Galicia 2023

HISTAGRA launches the Four-Year Plan for Democratic Memory in Galicia 2023 In August 2023, the Xunta de Galicia, through the First Vice-Presidency and Regional Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Tourism, and the Regional Ministry of Culture, Education and University and the University of Santiago de Compostela, signed a collaboration agreement to implement the Four-Year Democratic Memory Plan in 2023, under the auspices of the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory. The team formed by historians, forensic anthropologists, archaeologists and geneticists continues to find out about the past of violence in Galicia, already with the experience of 2021 and 2022, through the study and exhumation of three new graves from 1936-1939 in the municipalities of Narón, Oza-Cesuras and V...
  • Award for a doctor and collaborator of the HISTAGRA Group

    Uxía Otero, doctor trained in the HISTAGRA Group, winner of the USC ICARUS award The doctor in contemporary history Uxía Otero, trained in the HISTAGRA Group with a thesis directed by Ramón Villares and Margarita Barral has been recognised with the ICARUS Programme prize awarded by the USC and...
  • HISTAGRA at EURHO 2023

    HISTAGRA presents research papers at Rural History 2023 Between 11 and 14 September 2023, the seventh edition of Rural History will be held in Cluj, Romania. The conference is coordinated by the Babeș-Bolyai University and the Museum of Ethnography of Transylvania. Rural History 2023 aims...
  • New publication of the HISTAGRA Group

    New publication: Galicia, un golpe sin cuartel, una guerra sin trincheras. The socio-political construction of the Franco dictatorship (1936-1960). HISTAGRA, through the PI Lourenzo Fernández Prieto and the external collaborator and former doctoral student of the group, Francisco J. Leira Casti...
  • HISTAGRA at the Congress of the Contemporary History Association 2023

    HISTAGRA researchers take part in the 16th Congress of the Contemporary History Association Between 7 and 9 September 2023, the 16th Congress of the Contemporary History Association will take place in Logroño, Spain. The theme of this year's congress is: Looking at the past, looking at the pres...
  • HISTAGRA at SEHA International Congress 2023

    The XVIII Agrarian History Congress will be held in Coimbra from 6 to 8 September, and this time it will focus on food sovereignty and production and consumption. Food sovereignty is a crucial issue that crosses epochs and geographies. In recent years, as various problems have further threatene...