Helena Ribeiro de Castro, retired since September 2022, was a Full Professor at the Instituto Piaget, Campus Universitário de Almada where she coordinated a Bachelor in Primary Education and Master in Pre-School and Primary Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Lisbon and has published widely on issues concerning pedagogy and educational history approached from the perspectives of the visual and the body, among many others. In her twenty-plus years of participation in Network 17’s activities, she coordinated an EERA-funded project and publication, facilitated an EERA-supported Doctoral Summer School, and helped renew the history of education internationally.