Alves Reis and the Banknote Crisis of 1925
Following September’s article about Manuel Teixeira Gomes, we analyse this month one of the crises which prompted him to resign the Presidency of the Republic. Artur Virgílio Alves Reis (his
Manuel Teixeira Gomes – An Algarvian President of Portugal
After Portugal deposed its last monarch, D Manuel II, in 1910, the country became Europe’s third republic (after Switzerland and France). Over the course of the 113 years since the
Portugal’s Colonial War in Guiné – the beginning of the end
In 1961, liberation movements in Portugal’s African territories began an armed struggle against Salazar’s dictatorship to achieve independence. Portugal’s five African territories in 1960 consisted of two miniature island groups
O Salto – Portuguese emigration in the 1960s
Introduction During Portugal’s African Wars of 1961-74, young men avoided conscription for military service in Africa by emigrating from Portugal, and most of them went to France. But they were
The 1875 drought in the Algarve
In 1875, the whole of Portugal and in particular the Algarve was challenged by a continuing drought. Most farmers in the Algarve were smallholders whose subsistence agriculture required production of
Portugal and the Coronation of King Charles III
In the House of Commons in 1943, Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously described the unique and ancient friendship between England and Portugal as an alliance “without parallel in world history”.
Portuguese women who made history
International Women’s Day on March 8 celebrated the social, cultural and political achievements of women around the world. As we reside in Portugal, it seems appropriate to remember some of
The Massacre at Wiriamu
On December 16, 1972, a young captain of the Portuguese Army in the overseas province of Mozambique was summoned to the local army headquarters in the northwestern district of Tete.
Opposition to the Colonial Wars – the Vigil at Capela do Rato
The 50th anniversary of the Vigil at Capela do Rato, in central Lisbon, occurred on December 30, 2022. The Vigil was one of many instances of opposition to Salazar’s Estado
Opposition to Salazar’s Regime
António de Oliveira Salazar was Europe’s longest ruling dictator in the 20th century, exercising power during the international crises of the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War.