Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino

Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino
Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino
	Palácio da Ega, home of the archive
	Interactive map of Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino
	38°42′00″N 9°11′23″W / 38.7000099°N 9.1897472°W
Location	Calçada da Boa Hora 30, Alcântara, Lisbon, Portugal
Type	public
Established	1931
Affiliation	Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical
Director	Ana Canas Delgado Martins
Collection size	65 kilometres (40 mi) of physical records
Period covered	Portuguese Empire
Building information
Building	Palácio da Ega
Heritage status	Property of Public Interest
Website	ahu.dglab.gov.pt

The Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (AHU) (English: Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, AHU) (est. 1931) preserves archives related to the Portuguese Empire. It is located in the Palácio da Ega [pt] at Alcântara, Lisbon, Portugal. The Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical [pt] of the governmental Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education administers the archives. Prior to 1973, the Overseas Ministry oversaw it.^[2]

Among its holdings are records created in 15th–20th century related to colonial Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea, India, Macau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor, Uruguay, and other locales.^[3] As of 1970 the materials were grouped as pre-1833, mostly from the Arquivo do Conselho Ultramarino (Overseas Council Archive) and post-1833, from the Arquivo do Ministério das Colónias (Ministry of the Colonies Archive).^[4]

Directors have included Alberto Iria (circa 1970).^[4]

References

↑ "Identificação Institucional" [Institutional Identification]. Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 May 2026.
↑ "Quem Somos: História" [About Us: History]. Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
↑ "AHU: Conselho Ultramarino". Archivo Científica Tropical Digital Repository (in Portuguese). Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
1 2 Pescatello 1970.

Bibliography

Issued by the AHU

Legislação Colonial
Anuário Colonial
Arquivo das Colónias
Colecção dos Clássicos da Expansão Portuguesa no Mundo

About the archive

Alberto Iria (1950). "A Organização dos Serviços do Archivo Histórico". Boletim do Archivo Histórico Colonial (in Portuguese). 1.
Ann Pescatello (1970). "Relatório from Portugal: The Archives and Libraries of Portugal and Their Significance for the Study of Brazilian History". Latin American Research Review. 5. JSTOR 2502224.
Jose C. Curto (1988). "Angolan Manuscript Collection of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino; Lisbon: Toward a Working Guide". History in Africa. 15. JSTOR 3171858.
Roderich Ptak (1999). "Chinese Documents in Portuguese Archives: Jottings on Three Texts Found in the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Lisbon". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 149. JSTOR 43379288.
Paul Bjerk (2004). "African Files in Portuguese Archives". History in Africa. 31. JSTOR 4128541. (Account of research in the AHU)
"Carta aberta: o Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, a democracia e o conhecimento", Publico.pt (in Portuguese), 21 March 2014 (Letter from academics against integration of the Arquivo at the University of Lisbon)