Hispanic Liverpool News
New page! Charlotte Place, first home of many migrants during the 1870s
During the 1870s, six of the eight remaining properties on 'tumbledown' Charlotte Place were occupied by Spanish families and their boarders. Read more here!
New page! The boarding house at 12 Liver St
There was a boarding house in an old pub at 12 Liver St in 1901, run by Gerónimo Güena and his wife Magdalena Chacartegui. We don't know very much about it - can you help?
"Iberian Imports": the Hispanic Liverpool project in the Big Issue North!
An in-depth article by Antonia Charlesworth in the Big Issue North (13-17 January 2015) explores the history of Liverpool's Spanish community, in conversation with J Carmen Smith, Dominic Semple and Kirsty Hooper. Click the title above to read more!
New article by Koldo San Sebastian (in Spanish) on Los Vascos de Liverpool
For anybody who reads Spanish, Basque journalist and historian Koldo San Sebastián has just published this article on Los vascos de Liverpool (The Liverpool Basques; click the title above to read it!). It appeared on Euskonews on 7 January. It draws on David Eccles's book on the Larrinaga Shipping Company and mentions Liverpool Basque names including Abaitua, Aguirre, Albizua, Altuna, Ansuategui, Arrotegui, Beobide, Beotegui, Bilbao, Cafranga, Clemencot, Eizaga, Elordieta, Elustondo, Garagarza, Gorrino, Imaz, Iturraspe, Larrinaga, Larrocea, Longa, Luzuriaga, Mendiola, Olano, Oleaga,Ozamiz, Rementeria, Soberon, Telleria, Uribe, Uruburu, Ybarrondo, and F[ernandez] Zarza.
Many thanks to Ray Waring for the link!