There really were family whistles... and anyone who grew up a few decades ago will probably still remember their own. When I was a boy and played outside in Cruz Quebrada, Oeiras, my parents had a particular whistle for calling me. There was no need to shout my name or go looking for me through the streets. All it took was that sound, which I recognised immediately, even among other whistles, voices and children's games. And it wasn't just my family that had one... other chil

On 5 June 1878, Lisbon welcomed a visitor who seemed to have stepped straight out of one of his own Extraordinary Voyages... Jules Verne arrived on the Tagus aboard his yacht Saint-Michel III, coming from Vigo, accompanied by his brother Paul Verne, Jules Hetzel Jr., who was connected to his publisher, and the former French deputy Raoul Duval. He had not come as a hurried tourist. He had two days to discover Lisbon and decided to make the most of them in his own way. That mor

Danton Machado dos Santos There is an old image in the history of revolutions that has crossed centuries and borders: a moment comes when a revolution, after destroying its opponents, begins to destroy those who made it. This happened during the French Revolution, when some of the men who had helped overthrow the monarchy eventually became victims of the same revolutionary dynamic they had unleashed, and it happened, with its own characteristics and in a very different contex

There are moments in history when a country seems to be heading towards an inevitable destiny, only for us to discover, many centuries later, that this destiny depended on very specific political decisions, wars that could have ended differently and even events that took place hundreds of kilometres away... and the history of Portugal between 1580 and 1640 is one of the best examples of this reality. When Philip II entered Portugal in 1580, following the dynastic crisis cause

Lisbon - Beginning of the XX century At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, illustrated postcards became one of the most popular ways of sharing a journey, a landscape, or simply the place where people were spending their holidays. People sent postcards to family, friends or someone they cared about, almost in the same way that we publish a photograph on Instagram today... technology and speed have changed, but the desire to show others where we

Pedro Abrunhosa tem todo o direito de recordar a memória do avô de André Ventura e de retirar dessa memória as conclusões políticas que entender, sobretudo numa entrevista como a que concedeu à Antena 1, no programa de Luís Osório, onde voltou a assumir com clareza a sua intervenção cívica e política, mas eu, que sou um admirador absoluto da sua música, da sua escrita e da extraordinária força artística que tem demonstrado ao longo de décadas, não tenho de ser admirador do se

Quando pensamos na presença portuguesa na Ásia, pensamos habitualmente nas caravelas que atravessaram o Índico, nas fortalezas construídas ao longo das costas, nas igrejas que ainda hoje testemunham a presença portuguesa, nos grandes nomes da expansão e nas cidades que durante séculos estiveram ligadas às redes comerciais portuguesas, mas raramente pensamos numa dimensão muito mais quotidiana dessa presença, uma dimensão que talvez seja precisamente aquela que melhor demonstr

Há histórias que permanecem durante décadas dentro das famílias e que, quando são recuperadas através dos documentos, permitem olhar para a História de Portugal a partir de uma perspectiva muito diferente daquela que encontramos nos manuais escolares. Em Janeiro de 1919, quando a Monarquia do Norte procurava restaurar a Monarquia em Portugal, um carregamento de armamento apreendido nas Caldas das Taipas acabaria por conduzir as autoridades até à casa de uma família de Guimarã

Não existem apenas barreiras arquitectónicas para as pessoas com deficiência. Existem também barreiras humanas, talvez ainda mais importantes, mas sobre as quais quase nunca falamos, porque é muito mais fácil identificar uma escada sem rampa, uma porta demasiado estreita ou um passeio impossível de atravessar do que reconhecer a dificuldade criada por um funcionário que não sabe ajudar, por um serviço que não está preparado ou simplesmente pela ausência de alguém que compreen