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Overview

The Hispanic Liverpool Project investigates what Liverpool's forgotten Hispanic history can tell us about the city's role as a hub in the networks of trade, commerce, migration, travel, tourism, politics and culture that connected the Anglophone and the Luso-Hispanic worlds during the long nineteenth century (i.e. from approximately 1800 until the First World War). Through the Hispanic Liverpool Database and Hispanic Liverpool Community Collection, the project gathers, records and interprets the stories of the people who inhabited those networks, the trading connections they forged and exploited, the places they lived, worked and are remembered, and the traces we can still find of them today, in Liverpool and elsewhere.

Methods

The Hispanic Liverpool Project works with a range of sources, including shipping records, trade directories, census returns, church records, newspaper articles, travel guides, memoirs and company archives. It combines a macrohistorical approach, which aims to understand Liverpool's place in the grand narratives of nineteenth-century Anglophone and Luso-Hispanic national and imperial networks, with a microhistorical approach that pays close attention to the stories of individual people, voyages, connections, objects, encounters and events. Read more about the methodology behind the Hispanic Liverpool Database.

Key Aims

1. To uncover the stories of individuals and families who moved between Liverpool and the Luso-Hispanic world during the long nineteenth century.
2. To map the buildings, streets, routes and locations where Liverpool's Luso-Hispanic history played out.
3. To locate and record material traces of Liverpool's Luso-Hispanic history, such as the gatepost and memorial shown on the right.
4. To engage with individuals, groups and communities to connect Hispanic Liverpool's history to the present day.