The essay aims to reconstruct the biography of Bianca Ceva (1897-1982), a teacher, antifascist leader and the first woman to lead the National Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy. In the light of new archival documentation, the essay focuses in particular on Ceva’s involvement in the partisan press, and on the controversial episode of her removal from the direction of «Il Grido del popolo», the clandestine periodical of the partisan formations of Giustizia e Libertà in Piacenza.
