EPHEMERA ARCHIVE
The EPHEMERA Archive has been dedicated for many decades to the rescue, preservation and public dissemination of collections, holdings, books, manuscripts, documents, papers, pamphlets, objects, etc., both Portuguese and foreign, related to the memory of contemporary social, cultural, trade union and political history. It is an international archive with materials from around 100 countries.
The Archive holds more than 750,000 titles of books and brochures, tens of thousands of periodicals, several thousand posters, images, banners, billboards, cloths, handmade demonstration and protest signs, photographs, thousands of objects, hundreds of thousands of pamphlets, leaflets, cards, etc., thousands of badges and pins, tens of thousands of stickers — more than 6 linear kilometres of shelves and cabinets. It comprises a set of around 450 collections and holdings, unique in its scale and the importance of its funds, and is without doubt the largest private archive in Portugal and one of the largest in Europe.
We welcome researchers and research projects working with our collections and holdings, and we organise and participate in public exhibitions featuring our funds. We provide documentation and images for dozens of books and articles published in Portugal and abroad, both in print and online.
All work is carried out free of charge by volunteers.
In Barreiro, in addition to ongoing interaction with the community and with other archives, the Archive maintains two warehouses at Baía do Tejo, on Rua 48, Warehouses 3 and 5, where it concentrates much of the incoming materials it receives, as well as the work of many of its volunteers.
The Ephemera Archive has its own publishing activity, producing the Ephemera Notebooks:
– EPHEMERA – Em redor de uma palavra grega (Maria Mafalda Viana)
– A ESQUERDA FESTIVA NO TÉCNICO NOS ANOS 60 – Um testemunho, uma homenagem, um documento (Henrique Garcia Pereira)
– EM SENTIDO CONTRÁRIO – Venerando Ferreira de Matos, um oposicionista de província (Venerando Aspra de Matos)
– A CORRESPONDÊNCIA DE MAURÍCIO PINTO 1910-1957 (Maria Mafalda Viana)
– DEPOIS DA MEMÓRIA (Alunos da António Arroio)
– PAPÉIS DE UM CAPITÃO DE ABRIL
– O acervo de Rodrigo Sousa e Castro no Arquivo
Ephemera (Joaquim Matos)
The Archive also has a partnership with Tinta da China, through which it has already published 10 books, forming the Ephemera Collection:
– AUTOCOLANTES DO PPD (José Pacheco Pereira e Júlio Sequeira)
– AMORZINHO (Rita Maltez)
– A LUZ DOS LIVROS (António Leal)
– A CONQUISTA DAS ALMAS (Aniceto Afonso e Carlos Matos Gomes)
– UMA NOVA CONCEPÇÃO DE LUTA (Fernando Pereira Marques)
– AUTOCOLANTES DA FUR (José Pacheco Pereira e Júlio Sequeira)
– QUE FORÇA É ESSA (Helena Sofia Silva)
– DIÁRIO DOS DIAS DA PESTE (Ephemera)
– CENSURA – A Construção de uma Arma Política do Estado Novo (Julia Leitão de Barros)
– DESEJO DE REVOLUÇÃO (Fernando Pereira Marques)
The organisation of exhibitions throughout the country, drawing from its wide and varied collections and holdings, is another of its activities, of which here are some examples:
CONTACTS
E-mail: ephemerasecretariado@gmail.com
