Improving town, 1750-1820

The economic, cultural and political development of Belfast

Making space: English women, letter-writing, and the life of the mind, c.1650-1750

This article uses women's letter-writing from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to explore the home as a site of female intellectual endeavour. Far from representing a static backdrop to the action of domestic life, the home played a dynamic role in women's experiences of the life of the mind and shaped the ways in which women thought and wrote. Letters were penned in dining rooms, parlours and closets, by firesides, and on desks and laps. In their letters, women projected images of themselves scribbling epistles to friends in order to maintain their mental intimacy. Space was both real and imagined and the physical realities of a hand-written and hand-delivered letter gave way to the imaginative possibilities brought by networks of epistolary exchange and the alternative spaces of creative thought. By reinstating the home more fully in the history of female intellectual experience, a more nuanced view of the domestic arena can be developed: one that sees the home not as a site of exclusion and confinement, but as a space for scholarship and exchange. 

Women, letter-writing and the life of the mind in England, c.1650-1750

Drawing on national and regional letter collections dating from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, this article explores women's experiences of the life of the mind through an analysis of their letter-writing. This study also highlights the shortcomings of the compartmentalised nature of scholarship on women's writing and intellectual lives and proposes the letter both as a beneficial historical source and methodological tool for research on women's mental worlds. By employing an inclusive definition of intellectual and creative life, and eschewing traditional benchmarks of achievement, this article contends that women took a full part in the cultures of knowledge of their time. 

A Economia agrária do Algarve, na transição do Antigo Regime para o Liberalismo (1750-1836)

Artigo científico sobre a economia agrária do Algarve, desde o Pombalismo a Setembrismo, publicado na revista «ESTUDOS III», editada pela Universidade do Algarve, em 2009.

Poetry and feminine crafts in the letters of the young Marquise of Alorna (1750-1839)

abstract : Taking as a starting point the association between embroidery and language conveyed by the Greek myth of Filomela and Procne, this article examines the relationship between social status and ornaments like embroidery and lace. In order to illustrate this relationship an example is selected form the letters exchanged between the Marquise of Alorna and her Father where a connection is established between the production of these 'feminine' crafts, women's culture and womens writing, in the XVIIIth Century

A Ocidente do Imenso Brasil: as conquistas dos rios Paraguai e Guaporé (1680-1750)

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em História da Expansão e dos Descobrimentos Portugueses

Património bibliográfico e bibliotecas na construção da identidade colectiva. Entre um conceito e o seu desenvolvimento, 1750-1800

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em História Moderna

Eruz: del 1812 : [vue générale nocturne de la baie de Naples et Vésuve en éruption au premier plan] : [peinture]

Collectionneur : Lesouëf, Auguste (1829-1906)

Souvenirs et fragments pour servir aux Mémoires de ma vie et de mon temps. T. III, Mars 1806-novembre 1812 / par le Marquis de Bouillé (Louis-Joseph-Amour), 1769-1812 ; publiés, pour la Société d'histoire contemporaine, par P.-L. de Kermaingant

Collection : Publications de la Société d'histoire contemporaine ; 35, 41, 51

Souvenirs et fragments pour servir aux Mémoires de ma vie et de mon temps. T. II, Mai 1792-mars 1806 / par le Marquis de Bouillé (Louis-Joseph-Amour), 1769-1812 ; publiés, pour la Société d'histoire contemporaine, par P.-L. de Kermaingant

Collection : Publications de la Société d'histoire contemporaine ; 35, 41, 51