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Founded in 1911 as a 'federation' of the former Medical-Surgical School (EMC) and Polytechnic Academy (AP), initially the Social Sciences and Humanities barely featured in the University of Porto (UP), and was limited to a few subjects in the field of Political Economy which, coming precisely from the AP, would later lead to the Technical Faculty (1915-1926) and then the Engineering Faculty (1926 ff.).
The first FL/UP was planned from as early as 1915, and was established in 1919, following a prolonged crisis between the Minister of Public Instruction, Leonardo Coimbra (1883-1936), and the oldest Portuguese university. Existing from the year in question until its extinction in 1928, with an operating period until 1931, this first FL/UP, in line with its counterparts at the University of Coimbra and the University of Lisbon, had a 4th Cluster devoted to Clio, offering a licenciate (later a degree) in Historical and Geographical Sciences until 1926, and later a degree in Historical and Philosophical Sciences (1929 ff.). The respective teaching staff included Damião António Peres (1889-1976), Augusto Ferreira Nobre (1896-1930), Francisco Manuel Homem-Christo (1860-1943) and Aarão Soeiro de Lacerda (1890-1947, for the subsidiary subject of Aesthetics and History of Art; António Augusto Esteves Mendes Corrêa (1885-1960) also taught Clio subjects at the Porto School of Fine Arts; he was a teacher of the Palaeontology and Anthropology subgroup of the History and Natural Sciences department of the Faculty of Sciences/UP) along with Artur Magalhães Basto (1894-1960), both belonging to the Geography Cluster; at the end of its existence, he became assistant professor at the Torquato de Sousa Soares School (1903-1988).
This 4th Cluster and the respective Institute of Historical Studies published 3 volumes of a Historical Studies Journal from 1924 to 1926, which became the oldest historical periodical publication in our country; Damião Peres was the most active writer in this journal, in which a relative weight of Archaeology and Medieval and Modern History may be noted. It is also worth mentioning the « Barcelos» project of the History of Portugal (dir. Damião Peres) generated in the first FL/UP, which was published from 1928 to 1936.
