The historian Carmen Iglesias has taken over his life many positions, but especially today was “excited” to become first woman to lead the Real Academia de la Historia (RAH) , an institution founded in 1736.
That excitement, and “responsibility” that comes up is the transmitting tonight reporters after being elected director of the Academy by 23 votes out of 30. succeeds Faustino Menéndez Pidal , who has served as interim director since the death Gonzalo Anes, last March 30.
This new role marks a milestone in the history of who has it broken many “glass ceilings” in your life.
It was the first woman to head the Center for Constitutional Studies and being cream minister of the State Council.
Member of the Real Academia de la Historia since 1989, was the second woman to enter the parliament after Mercedes Gaibrois elected in the forties. When it was proposed as an academic of Language, in 2000, had only gotten so far this distinction three other women in the SAR.
He has also been president of the group Editorial Unit, “the first time” there was a woman with executive powers in a large media.
Tutor Dona Cristina de Borbón y Professor of History of King Philip VI , Carmen Iglesias propose on Friday to his team government, which today would not mentioning any names, and then take “a still photograph” of the Academy of History to know what steps to take.
“I am not pessimistic and I hope we can move forward” , said after referring to the economic situation of the Real Academia de la Historia, which is delicate but not as difficult as Language, with “more personal”.
“There will be open days “
Churches (Madrid, 1942) wants to continue the work of Gonzalo Anes, but is aware that the RAH is little known and also wants” open it society “. There will be open days for people to know “treasures” on the Academy.
Professor of History of Ideas and Political Forms of the Complutense University of Madrid and great expert in the eighteenth century, Iglesias stressed the importance of Spanish Biographical Dictionary, which brings in 50 volumes biographies of over 40,000 leading figures in the history of Spain.
The Academy now works in the digital edition This dictionary, which sparked a huge controversy in 2011 when the content of some biographies of people in recent history was known, especially Franco, signed by Luis Suarez, who gave a friendly vision of Franco and avoided defining it as a dictatorship.
“Of course it was a dictatorship, all the time”, claimed today Carmen Iglesias, that the University was part of the anti-Franco movement and knew what he was exposed.
In his opinion, “ almost worse than the Civil War was the long postwar and this obsession to hold to the division between winners and losers”. Franco finished his term as started it. “Signing death sentences”
In the digital edition of the dictionary will be done “serious editorial work” and talk to the authors of those biographies that need to be improved to do so.
And the biographies of digital publishing reflect the different sensibilities and historical theories.
Also, biographies of living characters of the dead were separated. There will be two different databases and biographical dictionary only contain the deceased.
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