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Labores del Hogar

Spanish women's magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2023
Entity authorityQ20670772
Source-derived summary

Labores del Hogar is a monthly women's magazine published in Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 1926 it is among the oldest publications in the country.

History and profile

Labores del Hogar was started in 1926. Before it became an independent publication it was a supplement of another magazine entitled Hogar y Moda. From the Spanish Civil War in 1936 to 1952 Labores del Hogar temporarily folded.

In 1990 Edipresse SA acquired 75% of the publisher of the magazine, El Hogar y la Moda S.A. In 1993 Edipresse SA became the sole owner of the magazine. It is published by RBA Holding Editorial S.A on a monthly basis in Barcelona. It offers articles about housework, needlework and the related techniques.

The magazine has a Portuguese edition and a Romanian edition.

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“Labores del Hogar” enters the record as spanish women's magazine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Labores, Hogar and Spanish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1926, 1936, 1952, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1926. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Labores, Hogar and Spanish.
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Why this record matters

“Labores del Hogar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Labores, Hogar and Spanish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q20670772. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1926, 1936, 1952 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from Labores del Hogar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.