Liverpool, England. The talk presented by expert Kirsty Hooper is entitled “Basques in Liverpool and the Spanish Colonial Empire: from Mundaka to Manila (via the Mersey).” It will begin at 3pm local time and 4pm in Euskal Herria. The researcher from the University of Warwick will concentrate and analyze the Olano, Larrinaga & Co, company founded in 1862, by Basques Ramon de Larrinaga, Jose Antonion de Olano and Juan Baustista Longa, which was the largest commercial Anglo-Spanish company of the time.
Kirsty Hooper is currently writing a book on the Liverpool Basque community and colonial commerce. Expert in Anglo-Spanish and Galician historic culture of the 19th century, and is the author of The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession, Mondariz-Vigo-Santiago: a Brief History of Galicia & Edwardian Tourist Boom and Writing Galicia into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics among other titles.
The talk is being organized by the Manuel Irujo Chair at the University of Liverpool that began in 2015, at the University of Liverpool in collaboration with the Etxepare Basque Institute to support research on Basque exiles.
You can listen to the talk here (username 915 0794 5889, password Zm9vB#hU).
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