Author: José Shane Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez DOI: Irish merchant in Callao, Peru, not much is known about Conroy’s early years: born in Wexford in 1806 or 1807 to a father originally from Rathdown…

Author: Agustín Guimerá-Ravina DOI: This distinguished naval officer was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He had a long career in the British Royal Navy which he joined in 1761, being twelve y…

Author: Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez DOI: Teresa Claramunt Creus, born in Sabadell in 1862 to a working-class family, was an indefatigable organiser of Catalonia’s textile workers. She was imprisoned …

DOI: British envoy and subsequently volunteer in the Spanish army during the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Don Guillermo Parker Carrol, at times simply known in Spain as Guillermo Carrol was born in …

Author: Manuel Llorca-Jaña DOI: Merchant, miner, botanist and mineralogist, was born in London, the only son of the four children born to Alexander Caldcleugh and Elizabeth Beatson. Very little is …

Author: Manuel Llorca-Jaña DOI: Merchant, miner, botanist and mineralogist, was born in London, the only son of the four children born to Alexander Caldcleugh and Elizabeth Beatson. Very little is …

Author: Lesley Kinsley DOI: Traveller, writer, chemist, scholar and adventurer who carried out mineral surveys in Peru and Chile in the 1820s and 1850s and pursued a number of military activities f…

Author:  Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, assisted in online editing by Adam Nour El-Din Hafez DOI: Born in Edinburgh on 24th of December 1791, James Arbuthnot, known in Spain as ‘Jaime Arbuthnot y A…

We've got 230 people listed in the section of Individuals! Let's celebrate this milestone and thank Lara Clerck (photo) who has been undertaking the laborious task of producing citeable digital object identifiers (DOIs) for each of the many completed profiles. These DOIs are now feeding the EU Open Research Repository, the AAS Journals, the Biodiversity Literature Repository, among other international research communities, and can be linked  with GitHub/ORCID/OpenAIRE accounts.

If you're in London this week, don't miss this event at the Embassy of Chile in the United Kingdom to celebrate the launch of the digital archive The 19th-Century Anglophone Press of Valparaíso, Chile. This is a project funded by the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme in collaboration with the National Library of Chile and the Center for American Studies at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. More information here:

Check the latest podcast of The Hampshire Archives Trust wholly dedicated to 'Discovering the Hispanic-Anglosphere'. It's free and last only 10 minutes or so. Here is the link:

Discover the man who arguably brought the industrial revolution to the Hispanic New World with the first steam engine at silver mines in Peru. The new addition to the biographies in the Individuals  section, Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), was authored by Joel Griffett, a Phd student at the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter currently researching the activities of Trevithick in Spanish America for this doctoral thesis.

On 2 February 1825, through the signing of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation with the United Provinces of the River Plate (present-day Argentina), the United Kingdom officially recogn…