The Majorcan historian Jaume Serra i Barceló dies.

PalmThe Mallorcan historian Jaume Serra i Barceló died this Friday at the age of 74. Born in Palma in 1951, he was a historian, teacher, and musician. He earned his bachelor's and doctorate in History from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), where he carried out research focused on the social history and ethnohistory of Mallorca. He was a specialist in the Germania mallorquina and the flags of modern Mallorca, among other fields of study.

Since his student years, he collaborated on various research and dissemination projects at the Museum of Mallorca, which marked the beginning of his career in the field of historical research. His doctoral thesis, entitledBandits and bandits in Baroque Mallorca, focused on social conflicts and the phenomenon of banditry on the island during the modern age.

In the educational field, Serra i Barceló has been a trainer of social science teachers and a training advisor at the Palma Teacher and Resource Center. He has also worked as a history teacher at the Josep Sureda i Blanes Secondary School in Palma.

On an academic level, he is the author of around forty publications covering different areas of Mallorcan historiography. His most notable works focus on the teaching of history, the study of medieval and post-medieval graffiti, Baroque ceramics, as well as the analysis of banditry and the social history of the Ancien Régime in Mallorca. He has also researched the purging of the teaching profession during the Franco regime, providing new elements for understanding educational repression during that period.