Kirsty Hooper

Dr Kirsty Hooper co-ordinates the Hispanic Liverpool Project. Kirsty teaches Hispanic Studies at Warwick University, where she writes about connections between Britain and the Hispanic world since 1800. She is especially interested in the networks of people, objects and ideas connecting the port cities of the nineteenth-century Spanish and British Empires, and in combing archives (dusty or digital!) to find stories that have been forgotten or concealed. Kirsty began researching Liverpool's Hispanic history when she arrived at Liverpool University in 2004 and discovered that the city's Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino and South American communities didn't appear in any of the major books on Liverpool history. She hopes the Hispanic Liverpool Project will help to put Liverpool's Hispanic history back on the local and global map.

Laura Yates

Laura Yates was born in Liverpool. She works with communities across Liverpool and beyond, exploring the complex relationships between identity and belonging to heritage, personal histories, story-telling and place. She has special interest in creatively preserving personal history using digital technologies and in making heritage accessible to all.