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The team comprises 13 integrated researchers, who conduct teaching activity at several Portuguese university and polytechnic institutions. A further 22 collaborators (some of whom PhDs) also conduct research, including PhD students. The team\u2019s IP holds a PhD in Anglo-Portuguese Studies, as do a further 7 members of the group, which attests to the team\u2019s wide-ranging experience in this research area. The remaining members hold PhDs in Hispanic Studies, Portuguese Studies and English Literature. The diversity of these backgrounds brings added value to the group, which privileges the interdisciplinary approaches necessary for the analysis and understanding of the complex phenomena it researches. Such variety gives the members of the team the opportunity to familiarize themselves with methods of research outside their field of expertise and promotes a more fruitful approach to the investigation by providing different critical insights into how questions can be explored.<\/p>\n
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During 2008-2012, two research projects were concluded which reflect the team\u2019s interest in also furthering in-depth knowledge of episodes and influential figures in Anglo-Portuguese relations:\u00a0Portrayals of the Peninsular War: from the Novel to the Screen<\/em>\u00a0(a project focused on the literary and cinematographic portrayal of the Peninsular War in Portugal and which created an inventory of narratives and films set in Portugal between 1807 and 1812) and\u00a0The Marquis of Pombal and his Time As Seen by British Eyes\u00a0<\/em>(a project focused on how Pombal was considered by British authors and Pombal\u2019s tense relations with the British community in Portugal).<\/p>\n At present three research projects are active, namely\u00a0Anglophone Travellers in Portugal<\/em>,\u00a0Great Britain in the Portuguese Periodical Press<\/em>and\u00a0Portugal: Abroad \u2013 Images from British and North American Contemporary Fiction about Portugal<\/em>, the latter studying novels published in English referring to Portugal as fictional scenery.<\/p>\n The first was launched in 1981 and remains open-ended. After having carried out in-depth studies of travel narratives produced by British authors on the subject of Portugal during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, research work which has already produced a significant number of dissertations and a vast number of articles, in the past few years researchers have begun to treat twentieth century British and North American travel accounts on Portugal. This trend opens up new prospects for this project in coming years. At the same time , the\u00a0VAP Base<\/a>\u00a0(Viajantes Angl\u00f3fonos em Portugal\/ Anglophone Travellers in Portugal<\/em>), an online database which brings together the bibliographic and thematic findings obtained during the course of this project and which can be accessed at no cost to the user, will continue to be updated. It has attracted interest on the part of researchers in different areas (literature, history, music, architecture, gender studies).<\/p>\n The project\u00a0Great Britain in the Portuguese Periodical Press<\/em>\u00a0, which emerged from two doctoral dissertations on the reception of British culture in the Portuguese periodical press up to 1890 by two of the Group\u2019s integrated researchers, will also have a significant boost in the coming years. The aim is now to compile a record of findings and the study of the penetration of British culture in Portugal as displayed in the periodical press from the 1890 Ultimatum until 1974. Given the vast volume of material to study, and which will be confronted with news of Portugal published in the British periodical press of the same time, this project will need to be developed in planned stages, starting with the period 1890-1918.<\/p>\n