The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance: Taking Stock of the Past and Envisioning the Future
This research project will contribute to a better understanding of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, the oldest diplomatic alliance still in force. It will mark the 650th anniversary of the Alliance by conducting a comprehensive assessment of its past and present interactions, as well as its future in a context marked by the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. This project involves – for the first time in a long-term project about the Alliance – an interdisciplinary group of Portuguese and British researchers from various fields of law, history, political science, palaeography-diplomatic, literature and musicology. It brings together the Humanities and Social Sciences Divisions of the University of Oxford, the JusGov (University of Minho), the CHSC (University of Coimbra), the CICP (University of Évora/University of Minho), the Institute for Political Studies (Católica University – Lisbon), and researchers from Cardiff University and Nova University of Lisbon. Collectively, they will analyse the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance from four perspectives – legal, political, historical and cultural – complementing each other in providing a deeper understanding of key moments from the Alliance’s past and present, and in envisioning its future. The research project will contribute to the programme of events celebrating the 650th anniversary of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance in both Portugal and the United Kingdom, joining the Portugal-UK 650 initiative.
Duration: September 2021- December 2024.
PI: Alexandra Rodrigues Araújo
Co-PI: João Sérgio Ribeiro
Team: Allan Tatham, Ana Lúcia Curado, Evanthia Balla, Jenny Benham, Joana Aguiar e Silva, João Carlos Espada, José Pedro Paiva, Liam Gearon, M. de Assunção Vale Pereira, Maria João de Araújo, Maria José Azevedo Santos, Owen Rees, Patrícia Jerónimo, Russell Sandberg, Silvério Rocha-Cunha, Teresa Pinto Coelho, Thomas Earle.
Partners: Center for the History of Society and Culture of the University of Coimbra; Research Center in Political Science of the Universities of Évora and Minho; Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal; University of Oxford.
JusGov Research Groups: GLOB