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José António Ferreira de Almeida had a long experience of higher education and his encyclopaedic knowledge was clearly typical of the Lisbon School: one may consider Agostinho Fortes (1869-1940) who, to some extent, he succeeded; He was responsible for a wide variety of curricular units at both the FL/UL and the FL/UP, however in Porto he sought to concentrate on the areas of art and history, where he effectively created a number of structures and left a legacy of intellectual posterity, in addition to meeting the conditions for access to the chair (1972); Moreover, he was also proficient in the teaching of History of Modern Culture and, in his final years, in the History of Culture and Mentalities (18th-20th centuries).
In these circumstances, youth was embodied by the young graduates of the School who were recruited as teaching staff, as already mentioned, from 1968 onwards. They were essentially behind the modernization of programmes and bibliographies, which resulted in the graduates of the School becoming familiar with M. Bloch (1886-1944), G. Duby (1919-1996), J. LeGoff (b. 1924), L. Febvre (1878-1956), F. Braudel (1902-1985), L. Génicot (1914-1995), F. Mauro (1900-1900), R. R. Palmer (1909-2002), J. Godechot (1907-1989) and many others; not to mention that in 1972 and 1973, some FL/UP graduates were among the national top five in the State examination that crowned the Pedagogical Internship... There are two more topics to be mentioned in this overview of the Porto School prior to 1974: 1) In 1970 the Revista da Faculdade de Letras [Journal of the Faculty of Arts][UP] was created, with different series according to the disciplinary clusters of the School. History was naturally one of the founding series, counting this inaugural series, and a total of 4 volumes until 1975, one of which was a double volume; Archaeology and Modern History predominate in the thematic contents and Carlos Alberto Ferreira de Almeida features as the most assiduous contributor (10 articles in a total of 27). 2) As already mentioned, at that time the degree was crowned by the defence of a thesis. From 1967 to 1975, 56 papers of this nature were submitted to the FL/UP, predominantly on Modern History (and, within this field, on Historical Demography, promoted by António Cruz and Cândido dos Santos, which followed a national trend of those years), and particularly notable works on Archaeology, Art History and, occasionally, on Medieval History.
