Historical processes, as well as the social and cultural elements that integrate and articulate them, are generators, preservers or destroyers of social bonds. In this line of research, attention is paid to the way in which the understanding of the past (whether distant or more recent) sheds light on the nature and evolution of these links, concretized in the continuity or ruptures in forms and lifestyles; the emergence and survival of cultural and political institutions; or the configuration of the identity of individuals and social groups in the past and in the present.

Likewise, the historical processes under study are also analyzed in their discursive and creative aspects: on the one hand, attention is paid to the communicative practices involved in them, and the way in which these contribute to their consolidation in the public space; and, on the other hand, the focus is placed on the dimensions of innovation, transformation and reelaboration involved in several of them.