COMMON VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

The Common Virtual Exhibition aims to evidence the importance of Libraries, Archives and Researchers thinking cooperatively about research, preservation and accessibility to collections of the colonial periodical press, in national and international terms.

It is a project promoted and conceived by the Organising Committee of the first IGSCPP International Congress (Lisbon, 22nd-25th of May 2017) “Politics and Culture in the Colonial Periodical Press”, and its partners, after an idea launched by Alfredo Caldeira to create a virtual exhibition.

In 2022, thanks to the courtesy of the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, a digital copy of the Gazeta de Goa was added to the exhibition. The copy belongs to the library’s microfilmed collection, while the journal was published between 1821 and 1826, being the first colonial journal of the Portuguese Empire outside Portugal and Brasil. We celebrate such an important event in the history of the press in Portuguese, taking as an opportunity the 2nd IGSCPP Congress in Lisbon, “The Liberalism and the Colonial Press” (21st-22nd of September 2022). We strongly invite you to pay the exhibition a visit, to meet the selection of titles, as well as the institutions involved in the project.

The Organising Committee is very thankful for Paulo Andringa’s special effort in conceiving, recovering and updating the Exhibition; to Dr Inês Cordeiro, Director of Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa and her team, in particular, Dr Luís França e Sá and Dr Ana Paula Sabido, who made the digitalisation of the Gazeta de Goa possible; Dr Pedro Diniz de Sousa coordinator of the Divisão de Informática e Transformação Digital of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova and his team, for moving the Exhibition to a new server, in particular, Dr João Gabriel Silva and Dr Paulo Alves.

We finally thank you all the institutions and researchers involved in the exhibition since 2017. Due to the lack of funding, the Common Virtual Exhibition would have been impossible without your help:

Institutional partners:

AHM – Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique; AHNSTP – Arquivo Histórico Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe; AHU – Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Portugal; ANA – Arquivo Nacional de Angola; ANT- Arquivo Nacional de Timor; ANTT- Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Portugal; BCFLUP – Biblioteca Central da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal; BGUC – Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal; BNP – Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal; BUBNU-CGD – Biblioteca Ultramarina BNU-CGD, Portugal; CC-FMS – CasaComum.org – Fundação Mário Soares, Portugal; CD25A – Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril; GIEIPC-IP – Grupo Internacional de Estudos da Imprensa Periódica Colonial do Império Português; HML – Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal; INEP – Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, Guiné-Bissau; MAO- Memórias d’África e d’Oriente, Portugal; RGPLRJ – Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; SLHI – Seminário Livre de História das Ideias, Portugal; XCHR – Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Índia.

Individual partners