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Everyday life and the small things that shaped the rhythm of the day

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1960s

Puerto Cristal: What an Everyday Archive Can Tell Us About a Mining Camp

The Historical Archive of the Puerto Cristal Museum in Chile holds records from the 1960s to the 1990s concerning a mining camp and the lives of its residents. It offers a way to explain why an archive is not a collection of isolated memories: it preserves provenance, activities, and links among the school, radio, port warehouses, laboratory, and mine, although the available evidence does not describe every record or its physical condition.

Contemporary

Household Recipe Books: When a Recipe Is Also an Archive

The Museo da Conserva’s #ComidaViejuna campaign invites us to read household recipe books as objects that preserve recipes, visual habits and cultural memory. Drawing on that initiative and sources on food heritage, this piece examines what can—and cannot—be documented when collecting, describing and interpreting everyday papers.

1960s

Spanish dress, media, and social life from 1940 to 1970

A reading of fashion in Spain from the post-war years to the 1970s as material culture: garments, accessories, photographs, fashion plates, and magazines make it possible to study both dress and the channels that made it visible.

1990s

The 1990s and the New Conversation About Board Games

The 1990s are often identified as a turning point for the board-game industry and its study. Rather than offering a closed history of successes and labels, this article examines what the available evidence supports: a broader supply, the popularisation of Eurogames, new meeting spaces, and historical research that remains fragmented.

1980s

A Century of Spanish Toy Heritage in Objects, Industry, and Memory

Toy collections, exhibitions and museums make it possible to understand these objects beyond nostalgia. Drawing on sources about Spanish toy heritage, this article examines what objects can document, how museums put them in context, and the limits required by a rigorous reading.