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This awareness alone, and regardless of epistemological considerations, largely justified its practice by a significant number of authors, also full-fledged historians. But the distance between Teixeira de Vasconcelos' democratic indoctrination volumes in the "Livros para o povo” ["Books for the People"] series or the small fortnightly pamphlets in the "Propaganda democrática: o que o povo deve saber” ["Democratic Propaganda: What the People Should Know"] collection (1886-88), in which Consiglieri Pedroso published biographies of contemporary political figures, and the biographical series being inaugurated by some publishers to accommodate the publication of more extensive and impactful works, almost always on characters from the distant past, was evident. This includes the aforementioned "Galeria de varões ilustres de Portugal" by Corazzi, Luciano Cordeiro's "Serões manuelinos"[Manueline Evenings"], launched shortly after by Ferin, or, at the turn of the century, the "Mulheres ilustres "["Illustrious Women"], a fleeting collection designed and executed by Olga de Morais Sarmento within the scope of her feminist activism. Despite the short lifespan of most of these series, they were not merely episodic phenomena. Instead, they were part of a widely shared editorial strategy, where the performance of the Imprensa Nacional [National Press] was exemplary in this regard. Without relinquishing an accessible style that guaranteed some expressive adherence, the former Royal Press sponsored serialised editions of the same type, such as Biografias, apreciações e narrativas” ["Biographies, Appraisals, and Narratives"], but above all “Portugueses fora de Portugal” ["The Portuguese Abroad"] and, in the midst of the overseas crisis, “Descobertas e descobridores” ["Discoveries and Discoverers"] in which Luciano Cordeiro, not coincidentally one of the founders of the SGL, published part of his research. It is noteworthy that some of these volumes would even see new editions under the aegis of the General Overseas Agency or the current National Press.
Thus, a popularisation, and even civic intervention model, more in tune with the specialisation movement in historiographical work, was taking shape. This model was less directly propagandistic and preferably geared towards a more distant past, less coloured by the internal struggles that spanned the century until the First Republic, even though the political reality, like the colonial issue, marked its rhythm.
