That's how it was...Series of conferences: Life in the palaces of Madrid 1850-1920

Raquel Sánchez García She has a PhD in History and Philology and is a full professor at the Faculty of Geography and History at the Complutense University of Madrid.

His career, focused especially in the nineteenth century, has moved in four main lines that have converged in several of his publications and research projects: 1. The history of liberal thought and the construction of the liberal state in Spain; 2. The cultural history of politics, and in particular the construction of myths and the analysis of political rituals; 3. The history of culture; and 4. Transfer and cultural circulation (history of the edition in Spain, the status of the writer in the Spanish intellectual world).

She has taught as a guest professor and researched in institutions such as the Instituto do Livro (Lisbon), Center de Recherche en Histoire du XIXè siècle (Paris), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Université du Maine (Le Mans), Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church (Budapest), Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem), University of Saint Andrews (United Kingdom).

Some of his works are: The imagined story. The War of Independence in Spanish Literature (2008) The author in Spain, 1900-1936 (2008) Alcalá Galiano and Spanish liberalism (2005) Spanish Romantics (2006) and Mediations and cultural transfers. Eugenio de Ochoa and the European letters (2017). She is editor of The question of Palace. Court and courtiers in contemporary Spain (Granada, Comares, in press) and of The culture of the sword. Of honor, duels and other hauls (Madrid, Dykinson, in press).

Germán Rueda Hernanz (Madrid, February of 1950) is a Spanish historian and graduate in History from the Complutense University of Madrid and doctor in Geography and History from the University of Valladolid, where he began his academic career and where he was as an adjunct professor until 1984. He is considered a "specialist in social history".

He has been a visiting researcher at various institutions such as the universities of Berkeley and Florida, the Istituto Storico de Roma or the CSIC (Madrid) and visiting professor at the CEU-S universities. Pablo, Nova de Lisboa and Carlos III. From 1984 to 1986 he was a professor at the University of Extremadura (Cáceres). Since the same year and currently he is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Cantabria (Santander).

His research focuses, above all, on society from the mid-eighteenth century to 1930, on issues such as confiscation, migration to the American continent, urbanization, the reign of Elizabeth II, teaching and comparative study of Iberian peninsulas and Italian He has also done some synthesis of contemporary history Spain and Universal, especially relating to the nineteenth century, which is the period to which most has been dedicated. He has published more than a hundred works on this topic related to the 1780-1930 years, which deal especially with social and political aspects of the period.

Emphasizes among its works the biography of Isabel II, of which Germán Rueda has already published two books. The first one was published in 2001 and is an extensive biography about the queen under the title 'Isabel II'; the second, titled Isabel II. On the throne (1830-1868) and in exile (1868-1904), is structured in two large blocks: 'Queen half of his life', with seven chapters that review the history of the reign of Elizabeth II of Bourbon from its birth in 1830, to 1868. And 'A woman, without a throne and looking for her past', addressing her early retirement at the age of 38 years, the temporary residences she had and her last years until she died in 1904. A biography rich in details that the author of the work shells accompanying his texts with photos and illustrations of the time. The book is completed with a complete bibliography and documentary section.

He has also participated in the well-known "Space URBES", dedicated to the study of Spanish cities, which was conceived in December of 2004 in relation to the research project "Types and historical, artistic and geographical characteristics of cities and towns in Spain of the nineteenth century. "

Germán Rueda was appointed corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of History, in the ordinary session held at the 28 in June.

José Antonio Vigara Zafra He is a Contracted Professor of Art History at UNED, where he has developed his teaching and research work since July 2007. He studied at the University of Córdoba and at the UNED in Madrid under the direction of Professor Antonio Urquízar Herrera, obtaining a doctorate with a thesis entitled: "Art and noble culture in the House of Fernán Núñez (1700-1850)". He has carried out research stays at the Center de Recherches Historiques de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 2009 and 2010, at the Institut Nationale d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) in Paris in 2017 and at the Center of Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2018. His interest has been oriented towards the relations between art and noble society in the Modern and Contemporary Age, collecting and the functions of the work of art, and the figure of the artist in the transition from the Modern Age to the Contemporary

Mercedes Pasalodos Salgado, PhD in History of Art from the Complutense University of Madrid, with the thesis The suit as a reflection of the feminine. Evolution and meaning. Madrid 1898-1915.

In 2005 I joined the Archives, Libraries and Museums Assistant Body, being my first destination the Army Museum. In 2008 I started a new stage in the Museum of the National Library, and in 2018 I joined the position of Head of Service of the museum.

As a specialist in historical clothing and fashion, I participated in the gestation of the Costume Museum. Likewise, I regularly collaborate in research journals, catalogs of exhibitions, participation in congresses related to the subject, regular lecturer in different institutions and curator of exhibitions, among which it is worth mentioning "From geometry to stitching. Treatments, manuals and systems of cutting and confection in the BNE ", in 2015.

Likewise, I have worked in the documentation of collections of museums of diverse nature and in the history of museography.

Among the most recent publications mention:

Clothing and collecting: the case of Enrique Mélida and the MAN.  Proceedings of the V International Congress of the History of Archeology / IV Seminar of History SEHA - MAN: Archeology of the museums: 150 years of the creation of the National Archaeological Museum / coord .. by Andrés Carretero Pérez, Concha Papí Rodes, Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero, 2018.

"Pocket instruction. Everything a soldier should know "in I Colloquium of Researchers in Textile and Fashion. Documentation Center and Textile Museum of Terrassa (17-18 November), (2017). 

"Talking patterns: A journey from the treatises of the sixteenth century to the methods of the early twentieth century" en The word dressed II, Soria, Provincial Council of Soria, (2016).

"Madame Paquin in Madrid" in Annals of Madrilenian Studies, Madrid, CSIC, I take LIV, (2014).

Carmen Abad Zardoya, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Zaragoza, her research career focuses on the domestic space of the Modern Age, with special emphasis on studies of material culture and gender perspective. Due to her experience as a professional cook she develops in parallel another line of work focused on space and culinary trousseau. From 2014 participates in research projects of national scope directed from the Universidad Complutense (with Gloria A. Franco as principal investigator) and, more recently, in the Project The inheritance of the Royal Sites: Madrid, from Cut to capital, coordinated between several Madrid universities. As a researcher and lecturer in gastronomy, she has collaborated in exhibitions, informative and teaching projects with institutions such as the National Museum of Decorative Arts (ArtSense project), the National Library (Sample The kitchen in its ink), the Prado Museum (courses for teachers) and the Joaquín Leguina Regional Library (lecture series). Direct the subject Heritage in specialized tourism programs in the Master On Line of cultural tourism MIRO of the University of Perpignan Via Domitia. Member of the Aragonese Academy of Gastronomy, has advised the recreation of historical recipes for television (Mediapro, Zanskar Productions), private companies and Cultural Acts of National Heritage (General Assembly of ARRE).

María Paz Aguiló Alonso, Doctor in History of Art, scientific holder of the Institute of History of the Center of Human and Social Sciences of the Superior Council of Scientific Research

She was the director of the magazine Archivo Español de Arte 2007-2015

Specializing in historical furniture from the Renaissance to the XNUMXth century, she has focused on the study of luxury furniture, essentially hard stone desks and tables, as well as relationships and influences with other European and American countries, including collecting from exotic objects from both the West and East Indies always in connection with interior decoration and furnishings, with publications such as The furniture in Spain XVI-XVII centuries in which the basic typologies of the Spanish furniture were fixed.

Of special interest can be his publications on the furniture of the monastery of El Escorial, Order and Decor. Felipe II and the furnishing of El Escorial  (2002)

Intarsia and marquetry in the Renaissance: Italy and Germany  (UCM 2004)

"In search of wisdom. An iconographic program in a German marquetry furniture from the 16th century "  Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao (2010)

Since the year 2002 has worked on research projects related to institutional furnishing in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, with the creation of a documentary database on cabinetmaking workshops, within the framework of the research project "60 years of cabinetmaking in Madrid 1870 -1936 " (Project CAM 2004) as principal investigator. From 2011-2013 he has participated in the project "Market of furniture and decorative objects in Spain: from the confiscations to the democratic transition", Led by the University of Oviedo, whose results were published in 2012 in Interior decoration. Firms, commercial houses and design in Asturias 1880-1990, Oviedo, Septem Ediciones, 2012 and  Old and new public spaces for interior decoration in Spain  Gijón Ed.Trea 2012, both coordinated by  Ana Mª Fernández (coord.).

In the year 2007 began the organization of Furniture Seminars, under the generic title of El Mueble: New Research Perspectives, whose second edition was published under the title "The furniture testimony of a changing society " as a monographic issue in the 2011 Magazine of Dialectology and Popular Traditions). In relation to this period he published "The valuation of the institutional office" of 1860 to 1936 the same year as well as "The furniture of" vegetal mosaic "for Isabel II. The office of the Queen and other pieces "together with Professor Jose Luis Sancho in Spanish Art Archive (2011, No. 334).

Regarding the interior decoration of palaces, it began, around the XVI-XVII centuries, in “Palacio y Hogar. The Furniture ”in   The culture of the Renaissance of the History of Spain of Menéndez Pidal., continued lately in the chapter "The Public Setting in Spain" of the Cultural Furniture History  of the University of Oxford in editing process.