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Ramón Villares wins the Trasalba Award for his work in Galician culture

HISTAGRA researcher Ramón Villares wins the Trasalba Award The Board of Trustees of the Otero Pedrayo Foundation has agreed to award the 2026 Trasalba Prize to HISTAGRA member Ramón Villares in recognition of his intellectual career and ongoing commitment to Galician culture. The decision was taken by the organisation's Governing Committee, which highlighted his ‘dedication to the Otero cause’ and his many years of research into the Xeración Nós from a historical and geographical perspective, as well as his essay Fuga y retorno de Adrián Solovio (Galaxia, 2018), considered by the Foundation to be one of the key works for understanding the figure and thought of Ramón Otero Pedrayo today.Ramón Villares Paz (Cazás-Xermade, 1951) has been Professor of Contemporary History at the Universit...

  • Donation from Ramón Villares to AHUS

    HISTAGRA member and founder Ramón Villares donates his personal archive to the USC to be incorporated into the AHUS collection. It consists of a total of 66 boxes of documents that bear witness to his extensive and prolific professional career spanning nearly 50 years. The donation includes bot...

  • HISTAGRA's Uncomfortable Past Cycle: Lecture by Miguel Ángel del Arco

    CONFERENCE BY MIGUEL ÁNGEL DEL ARCO BLANCO IN THE HISTAGRA SERIES ‘UNCOMFORTABLE PAST’ On Monday 9 February at 7:30 pm in the Sede Afundación da Rúa do Vilar, 19, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco, Professor of History at the University of Granada, will give a lecture entitled “The Silenced Famine o...

  • HISTAGRA researcher wins the 17th Ramón Garrabou Agricultural History Award

    Bruno Esperante Paramos, researcher at HISTAGRA, won the 17th Ramón Garrabou Agricultural History Award presented by SEHA BRUNO ESPERANTE PARAMOS was awarded the 17th Ramón Garrabou Agricultural History Prize for his article: ‘The motorisation of smallholder Atlantic agriculture and livestock f...

  • Work led by HISTAGRA highlighted in 2025 in the field of archaeology

    HISTAGRA-led projects highlighted in 2025 in the field of archaeology Every year, the Archaeological Park of the Castreña Culture in San Cibrao de Las compiles a ranking of archaeological projects that considers the ten top discoveries of 2025. This list includes the exhumation of the mass grav...

  • HISTAGRA thesis defence: Xurxo Antelo Alvite

    HISTAGRA thesis defence: Xurxo Antelo Alvite. Political patronage and local power in rural Galicia during the transition to democracy (1973-1983) Author: Xurxo Antelo AlviteSupervisor: Lanero Taboas, DanielProgramme: Doctoral Programme in Contemporary HistoryCentre: Faculty of Geography and His...