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Maria de Fátima Bonifácio is a retired researcher from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Between 1980 and 2006, she was also a professor of contemporary history at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University Lisbon.

Her extensive scholarly work primarily focuses on 19th-century Portuguese history, with a particular emphasis on the period between 1834 and 1851, addressing political history and biographical studies.

Among her most significant works are: Seis Estudos sobre o Liberalismo Português (1991); História da Guerra Civil da Patuleia (1993); Apologia da História Política (1999); A Segunda Ascensão e Queda de Costa Cabral (2002); D. Maria II (2005); Uma História de Violência Política – Portugal de 1834 a 1851 (2009); A Monarquia Constitucional (1807–1910) (2010); Memórias do Duque de Palmela (editor, preface, and transcription) (2011); Um Homem Singular – Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães (1787–1858) (2013). She has also published numerous opinion articles, particularly political analyses, in Público, Atlântico, and the digital newspaper Observador.