Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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The Arquivo Público Estadual Jordão Emerenciano (APEJE) is the state public archive of Pernambuco, Brazil. It was founded in 1945 and initially operated within the premises of the state government palace before being transferred in 1975 to its current headquarters in the historic centre of Recife. The building that houses it — the old Casa de Câmara e Cadeia Nova do Recife, constructed in 1731 — is historically significant in its own right: among those imprisoned there was the revolutionary Frei Caneca, a hero of the Republican Revolutions of 1817 and 1824. In October 1983, by Decree No. 8,879, the archive was renamed in honour of its first director, Jordão Emerenciano, who served with distinction for 28 years.
The APEJE's archival collection was constituted at its founding by documentation from the Secretaria de Governo, encompassing the administrative correspondence and registers of Pernambuco's colonial, imperial, and republican periods. Over the decades the collection has grown to include documents, maps, laws, newspapers, books, manuscripts, and photographs covering the full sweep of Pernambuco's history.
Among the archive's most notable holdings is the fund of the Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social de Pernambuco (DOPS/PE), part of the network of political repression during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–1985). This fund was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register for Latin America and the Caribbean, and also on the international register, in 2011. The APEJE's hemeroteca (press archive) holds periodicals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from Pernambuco and other Brazilian states, making it an important resource for press history research.
The archive is open Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. Researchers may access the collections without restriction, subject to the condition that materials currently being processed are temporarily unavailable. Contact for research enquiries is available by email and phone.