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What caused this scarcity of public debate? Th is issue deserves an in-depth study that is yet to be conducted (as also some controversies in the broader field of history remain unstudied). However, it may be assumed that it is linked to the long absence of freedom of expression in Portugal, the marginalisation of critical thought, the limited size of the historian community, and its focus on national history, as noted earlier. It is also linked to the historians’ affiliation with institutions and networks of varying degrees of exclusivity. Sometimes, criticism was perceived as a personal attack. Conceptions of history and concepts were rarely discussed. Some criticism was reduced to identifying silences in the reference to authors. But since the early years of this new century, signs of change have emerged in both public criticism and the internationalisation of historians. Undeniable is the continuity of a self-critical sense among history professionals.
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