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“History of Catalonia”. First manuscript of different chapters

Date
1934 - 1935
Archive
National Archive of Catalonia
Document type
Textual
Reference code
ANC1-411-T-1333
Link to the online document
Description

The first manuscript of the “History of Catalonia”, written between 1934 and 1935, is a key piece of contemporary Catalan historiography. This document represents the intellectual effort to build a proper narrative, rigorous and rooted in national reality. At a time of institutional and cultural recovery, this work responded to the need to provide the country with a shared memory and a historical discourse that strengthened collective identity. The manuscript connects with the European historiographic currents of the time, which sought to explain the nations from a critical and documented perspective. It is an example of how historical research can become a tool for civic pedagogy and how written culture contributes to the construction of a pluralistic Europe aware of its past.