The Hispanic-Anglosphere …
A research network of scholars and non-academic partners from all around the world who are tracing curious and long-enduring entanglements of the global Hispanic and Anglo worlds, particularly in relation to the British Isles (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man)
Video: Pandemics and global entrepreneurship
If you missed the talk ‘Pandemics and global entrepreneurship: a case from the Hispanic-Anglosphere’ by Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers followed by a Q&A session (17th November 2021), here is the full video. This was the first hybrid event organized by the Modern History Research Centre of the University of Winchester.
For more information on the Modern History Research Centre, visit their page (click on the image):
Talk: Pandemics and global entrepreneurship
You are all most cordially invited to attend this event organized by the Modern History Research Centre (MHRC) of the University of Winchester. It will take place both in campus and online. The talk will be in English, the Q&A in both English and Spanish.
Wednesday 17th November, 16:30-18:00 (UK time)
Pandemics and global entrepreneurship: a case from the Hispanic-Anglosphere
Speaker: Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (University of Winchester)
St. Alphege Building (SAB) 004,
King Alfred Quarter, University of Winchester
To attend online click this link: Join conversation (microsoft.com)
As we grappled with the implications of the Covid-19 crisis on the global economy, it seems natural to turn to the past in search of clues and answers. This talk will explore the role played by pandemics in shaping the destiny of a man once described as ‘the richest commoner in England’ and the company that he directed: William ‘Guillermo’ Gibbs (1790–1875). Particular attention will be paid to his formative years in Spain and the measures he undertook hand-in-hand with his brother George Henry Gibbs to transform the family company Antony Gibbs & Sons into a global commercial powerhouse with permanent agents in Europe and the Americas – all before acquiring a spectacular country house near Bristol, Tyntesfield, now under the care of the National Trust. The discussion will be a follow up to one of the chapters in the recently published book Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, ed. The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) that emanated from the work of the international research network ‘The Hispanic-Anglosphere: transnational networks, global communities (late 18th-20th centuries)’ funded by the AHRC and the University of Winchester in partnership with the National Trust Tyntesfield.
Chair and discussant: Professor Chris Aldous (University of Winchester).
This event is free and open to the public
For more information about the MHRC, please contact Professor Chris Aldous (Chris.Aldous@winchester.ac.uk) and/or Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (g.iglesiasrogers@winchester.ac.uk).
CFP: Political mistrust and global pandemics
We are organizing a panel addressing the theme of the Society of Latin American Studies conference (SLAS, Bath, 21-22 April 2022) “Political mistrust and global pandemics” – from a historical perspective. We welcome original proposals on any topic or theme relating to the past and relevant to any point of the global Hispanic world (i.e. Spain, Spanish America including Hispanic US, Spanish Asia, Spanish Africa, etc) and particularly to the Hispanic-Anglosphere. For example, the Balmis expedition to inoculate the global Hispanic world with the smallpox vaccine developed by English physician Edward Jenner amid the Napoleonic wars; the rise of the trade on quinine during the Latin American wars of independence; politics and cholera epidemics in the nineteenth century, etc.
We have already three speakers and a discussant (Prof. Matthew Brown) in the panel, but we would like to hear more voices so if you want to join us, just email a title of your proposed paper with a few explanatory lines to hispanicanglosphere@gmail.com before Tuesday 28th September. We welcome papers in English and Spanish. Please make sure to also include the following information: preferred presentation format (in person and/or virtual), your full name, institutional affiliation and email address. Please feel free to include your preferred pronouns, as well.
New: John Parish Robertson (1792-1843)
Check the biography of John Parish Robertson (1792-1843), political agent, writer, and merchant. Scottish by birth, Robertson developed a wide web of interests in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and was among the first traders to operate in post-revolutionary Paraguay.
This entry is the latest addition to our list of Individuals where we have so far identified 96 key men and women who operated and/or contributed to the Hispanic-Anglosphere and where we are aiming to provide evidence-based, peer-reviewed biographical information such as this text prepared by a new member of our international research network Dr Alex Middleton.
Enjoy!
The Hispanic-Anglosphere @ Chile / video and report available
If you missed the Zoom talk about the Hispanic-Anglosphere and the recently published book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) at the Centro de Estudios Americanos (Centre of American Studies) of the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Chile last month, you can now watch the whole event and/or read a very good report produced in Spanish by the team of Noticias UAI.
The video of the event is available below and also through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVIVmpEGots
The Hispanic-Anglosphere @ Chile TOMORROW
A quick reminder of the Zoom talk about the Hispanic-Anglosphere and the recently published book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) at the Centro de Estudios Americanos (Centre of American Studies) of the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Chile TOMORROW at 11 am (Chile time), 16:00 pm (British Isles time), 17:00 pm (mainland Europe).
Dr Manuel Llorca-Jaña and Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers will share the panel. All are very welcomed to join us. You just need to register here in advance to receive the Zoom link on the day: https://mkg.uai.cl/postgrados-nuevo/charlas/hispanic-anglosphere-reflexiones/page/contact?utm_source=BaseInterna&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Charla&utm_term=Julio_2021
You´ll find further details below and in this webpage (in Spanish): https://pro-bee-beepro-messages.s3.amazonaws.com/65016/40311/1104626/6282245.html
The initial conversation will be in Spanish, but the Q&A will be in both Spanish and English.
Talk: The Hispanic-Anglosphere @ Chile on Thursday
A quick reminder that our colleague Dr Andrés Baeza Ruz has organized a Zoom talk about the Hispanic-Anglosphere and the recently published book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) at the Centro de Estudios Americanos (Centre of American Studies) of the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Chile.
It will take place on Thursday at 11 am (Chile time), 16:00 pm (British Isles time), 17:00 pm (mainland Europe). Dr Manuel Llorca-Jaña and Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers will share the panel. All are very welcomed to join us. You just need to register here in advance to receive the Zoom link on the day: https://mkg.uai.cl/postgrados-nuevo/charlas/hispanic-anglosphere-reflexiones/page/contact?utm_source=BaseInterna&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Charla&utm_term=Julio_2021
You´ll find further details below and in this webpage (in Spanish): https://pro-bee-beepro-messages.s3.amazonaws.com/65016/40311/1104626/6282245.html
The initial conversation will be in Spanish, but the Q&A will be in both Spanish and English.
Talk: The Hispanic-Anglosphere @ Chile / Thursday 8th July
Our colleague Dr Andrés Baeza Ruz has organized a Zoom talk about the Hispanic-Anglosphere and the recently published book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) at the Centro de Estudios Americanos (Centre of American Studies) of the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Chile.
It will take place on Thursday 8th July at 11 am (Chile time), 16:00 pm (British Isles time), 17:00 pm (mainland Europe). Dr Manuel Llorca-Jaña and Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers will share the panel. All are very welcomed to join us. You just need to register here in advance to receive the Zoom link on the day: https://mkg.uai.cl/postgrados-nuevo/charlas/hispanic-anglosphere-reflexiones/page/contact?utm_source=BaseInterna&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Charla&utm_term=Julio_2021
You´ll find further details below and in this webpage (in Spanish): https://pro-bee-beepro-messages.s3.amazonaws.com/65016/40311/1104626/6282245.html .
The initial conversation will be in Spanish, but the Q&A will be in both Spanish and English.
Blog @ UKLAH
If you want a quick overview of the book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction, ed. Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (London and New York: Routledge, 2021) don’t miss the blog published in the online platform of the United Kingdom Latin American History Network (UKLAH): https://uklah.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/uklah-blog-post-12-graciela-iglesias-rogers-on-the-hispanic-anglosphere/
The UKLAH’s mission is to raise the profile of Latin American history in the UK, “moving it from the neglected margins to its rightful place in dialogue with and as an integral part of the mainstream of historical debate in classrooms, institutions and the media”.
Talk @ PECBAL / Argentina in YouTube
Did you miss today’s online talk about the work of the Hispanic-Anglosphere network and the new book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) organized by the PECBAL (Programa de Estudios sobre la Comunidad Británica en America Latina – Study Programme on The British Community in Latin America) at the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina? You can see the full recording in the YouTube channel of PECBAL (the talk is mainly in Spanish):
More info on this event and the work of the PECBAL is available here: https://eventos.udesa.edu.ar/66227/detail/ciclo-de-presentacion-de-libros-del-pecbal-segundo-encuentro.html
Tomorrow: The Hispanic-Anglosphere @ Argentina / Talk
A quick reminder to join us in an online talk about the work of the Hispanic-Anglosphere network and the new book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) organized by the PECBAL (Programa de Estudios sobre la Comunidad Británica en America Latina – Study Programme on The British Community in Latin America) at the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina. It will take place TOMORROW Friday 28 May at 11 am (Argentine time) – 15:00 pm (UK time).
Dr José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez, Juan I. Neves-Sarriegui and Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers are in the line-up. The initial conversation will be in Spanish, but the Q&A will be in both Spanish and English. You just need to register in advance by visiting this page to receive the Zoom link before the meeting starts: https://eventos.udesa.edu.ar/66227/detail/ciclo-de-presentacion-de-libros-del-pecbal-segundo-encuentro.html
For more details, see our previous blog. Para más detalles en castellano, lee el blog anterior: https://hispanic-anglosphere.com/2021/05/18/talk-the-hispanic-anglosphere-argentina-friday-28th-may/
Talk: The Hispanic-Anglosphere @ Argentina / Friday 28th May
Come and join us in an online talk about the work of the Hispanic-Anglosphere network and the new book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) organized by the PECBAL (Programa de Estudios sobre la Comunidad Británica en America Latina – Study Programme on The British Community in Latin America) at the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina. It will take place on Friday 28 May at 11 am (Argentine time) – 15 pm UK time.
Dr José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez, Juan I. Neves-Sarriegui and Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers are in the line-up. The initial conversation will be in Spanish, but the Q&A will be in both Spanish and English. You just need to register in advance by visiting this page to receive the Zoom link on the day: https://eventos.udesa.edu.ar/66227/detail/ciclo-de-presentacion-de-libros-del-pecbal-segundo-encuentro.html
Below are the details of the talk in Spanish
La ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’: ¿qué es y para qué sirve?
La charla tiene por fin presentar The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction, ed. Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (Londres y Nueva York: Routledge, 2021) el primer libro de la red internacional de académicos y no-académicos que investigan la contribución de personas de las Islas Británicas (Irlanda, Reino Unido, Islas del Canal de la Mancha, Isla de Man) que se involucraron con el mundo hispánico global, así como por aquellos del mundo hispánico que fueron a las Islas Británicas como visitantes, exiliados y/o inmigrantes desde fines del siglo dieciocho a principios del siglo veinte – un período marcado, como hoy, por pandemias, incertidumbre social, descolocación de potencias globales y el alza de radicalismos. Al trascender fronteras políticas y culturales, estos individuos, networks y comunidades contribuyeron a crear una Hispanic-Anglosphere (una esfera hispánica-anglo y/o anglo-hispánica). Con diez capítulos, 25 biografías y siete estudios de cultura material, el libro ofrece nuevas perspectivas en infinidad de temas: comercio, artes, educación, lenguaje, política, prensa, religión, biodiversidad, filantropía, abolicionismo e imperialismo. Una copia está disponible en preview parcial en Google Books.
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers es profesora asociada (Senior Lecturer) en Historia Europea y del Mundo Hispánico Global y directora del Centro de Investigación de Historia Moderna (MHRC) en la universidad de Winchester. Lidera la red internacional ‘The Hispanic Anglosphere: Transnational networks and global communities (18th – 20th centuries)’ financiada por el fondo de investigación británico Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) en asociación con el National Trust (Tyntesfield). Llegó al mundo académico tras ser un Reuters fellow con una larga carrera periodística como corresponsal en Europa para el diario La Nación, entre otros medios. Graduada (St. Hilda’s) y postgraduada (Lady Margaret Hall) en historia de la universidad de Oxford, a su primer libro British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon: volunteering under the Spanish flag in the Peninsular War (Londres y Nueva York: Bloomsbury, 2014) le han seguido otros trabajos, incluído un libro coeditado con el profesor David Hook, Translations in Times of Disruption: an interdisciplinary study in transnational contexts (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez es investigador postdoctoral (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow) en la National University of Ireland, Galway. Doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Salamanca, centra su investigación en las interacciones entre Irlanda, la diáspora irlandesa y el mundo hispánico en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Durante el curso 2017–18 fue National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow en el Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies la Universidad de Notre Dame (EE.UU.) y en 2016–17 trabajó como profesor asistente en la Universidad de Winchester. Es miembro de la red internacional de investigación ‘The Hispanic Anglosphere: Transnational networks and global communities (18th – 20th centuries)’. Actualmente está completando una monografía que examina el papel de Iberoamérica en la transformación de las visiones irlandesas del imperialismo, el republicanismo y la esclavitud entre 1776 y 1848. José es también traductor profesional: ha traducido varios libros del inglés al castellano en el ámbito de la historia del arte, la historia de la música y la literatura de viajes.
Juan I. Neves-Sarriegui es candidato a Doctor en Historia en la Universidad de Oxford donde obtuvo un Master Historia. Cuenta también con un Master en Humanidades de la Universidad de Coimbra en Portugal. Se ha desempeñado como ayudante de cátedra y de investigación en las universidades de Buenos Aires y en Coimbra. Su proyecto de investigación doctoral analiza el rol de la prensa periódica en la época revolucionaria del Río de la Plata a inicios del siglo XIX. Es co-organizador del Seminario de Economía Política y Cultura en Historia Global de la Universidad de Oxford y miembro de la red internacional de investigación ‘The Hispanic Anglosphere: Transnational networks and global communities (18th – 20th centuries)’ .
La charla forma parte del Segundo Ciclo de Presentación de Libros del Programa de Estudios sobre la Comunidad Británica en América Latina PECBAL
El Programa de Estudios sobre la Comunidad Británica en América Latina surge de los intereses de docentes, graduados/as y estudiantes de la Universidad de San Andrés que investigan temáticas vinculadas con la comunidad británica e irlandesa en América Latina. Ubicado dentro del Programa de Posgrado en Historia de UdeSA, reúne a investigadores que trabajan sobre la presencia de británicos en América Latina y provee un espacio de diálogo, discusión, formación e intercambio de ideas y trabajos que busca enriquecer nuestras investigaciones y ampliar nuestros conocimientos sobre el impacto de las comunidades británicas.
Para participar hace falta registrarse por anticipado en esta página:
New book now out!
We are delighted to announce that in a year like no other, somehow, we managed to complete the research, compile all the material and Routledge has now published the first book emanating from our project: The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021).
Book Description
The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework – the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ – to open a window into the often surprising interactions of individuals, transnational networks and global communities that, it argues, made of the British Isles (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) a crucial hub for the global Hispanic world, a launching-pad and a bridge between Spanish Europe, Africa, America and Asia in the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Perhaps not unlike today, that was a time marked by social uncertainty, pandemics, the dislocation of global polities and the rise of radicalisms. The volume offers insights on many themes including trade, the arts, education, language, politics, the press, religion, biodiversity, philanthropy, anti-slavery and imperialism. Established academics and rising stars from different continents and disciplines combined original, primary research with a wide range of secondary sources to produce a rich collection of ten case-studies, 25 biographies and seven samples of interpreted material culture, all presented in an accessible style appealing to scholars, students and the general reader alike.
Table of Contents
Introduction: What is the Hispanic-Anglosphere? Concepts, methods and public engagement
Appendix: Re-interpreting Tyntesfield with the Hispanic-Anglosphere – A testimony
Part I: Case-studies
1. Spanish ‘colonies’: a term forged in the Hispanic-Anglosphere
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers and José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez
2. British involvement in Francisco de Miranda’s Leander Expedition (1805–1807)
3. Yrisarri & Co: a Hispanic-Anglo firm in the opium trade in East Asia (1815–30)
4. Between Penury and Philanthropy: Joseph Lancaster, the State and the Birth of Primary Schooling in Chile (c.1810-1830)
5. Love, prejudice, pandemics, and global entrepreneurship: William ‘Guillermo’ Gibbs’s long route to Tyntesfield
6. Englishmen and Alpacas: William Walton, William Danson and Charles Ledger
7. Entangled Public Opinion: Thomas George Love and the British Press in the River Plate, 1807-1845
8. Pablo Montesino’s exile and the basis of the Liberal Education Project
9. The anarchist feedback loop: Spanish solidarity campaigns in London and the birth of revolutionary syndicalism, 1896-1913
10. Miguel de Unamuno’s British correspondence: a space for sharing ideas and concerns
Part II: Entangled Lives: A Taster
Biographies
Material culture: prints, manuscripts, objects, images, locations
Afterword: The way ahead
Index
For more information visit: www.routledge.com/9780367353131
If you want to request a free copy to review in a journal, please visit this page: http://pages.email.taylorandfrancis.com/review-copy-request
The British Isles – hub of radicalism
We are back with three intriguing and thought-provoking profiles of key Individuals in the Hispanic-Anglosphere. The articles penned by our colleague Arturo Zoffmann-Rodriguez offer valuable insights into a world marked by intense radicalism, political exile, cultural experimentation and solidarity networks with the British Isles as its centre in the years leading to the threshold of the twentieth century.
You can learn now all about the activities of the Cuban-born free-thinker Fernando Tarrida del Mármol (1861-1915), the trade union activist Pedro Vallina Martínez (1879-1970) and Teresa Claramunt Creus (1862-1931), a leading writer in Freedom, the flagship publication of the London anarchists in the 1890s.
If you have not heard from us for a while is mainly because we are busy working on a contracted edited book, but we are still trying to find time to get the word out about the project (ex. only a couple of weeks ago we shared a platform in an event in Canning House entitled ‘Forgotten Histories’) – and we have other profiles and more panels in our online exhibition ‘Exploring the Hispanic-Anglosphere’ in the pipeline, so keep tuned!
National flower of Chile found at Tyntesfield
Don’t miss the latest addition to our online exhibition all about one of the first – if not the first – artistic depictions of the national flower of Chile, the copihue, discovered by one of our colleagues in the walls of NT Tyntesfield, the country residency established by William ‘Guillermo’ Gibbs (1790-1875) near Bristol, UK.
The finding got also a mention in the August-September National Trust Inspire podcast ( https://soundcloud.com/inspiresw ) where the work of our AHRC-University of Winchester research network project The Hispanic-Anglosphere … in general featured highly. In fact, we served as ‘bait’ for the whole programme… so if you want to avoid the self-proclaimed clichéd presentation (which sadly also reduced the whole of the Hispanic world to Iberian Spain) and other items, we would suggest to just start listening from 40:00 in the track.
Enjoy!
TOMORROW: Pandemics and global entrepreneurship
Just a quick reminder ot the hybrid event below organized by the Modern History Research Centre (MHRC) at the University of Winchester(MHRC).
Wednesday 17th November, 16:30-18:00 (UK time)
Pandemics and global entrepreneurship: a case from the Hispanic-Anglosphere
Speaker: Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (University of Winchester)
St. Alphege Building (SAB) 004,
King Alfred Quarter, University of Winchester
To attend online click this link: Join conversation (microsoft.com)
As we grappled with the implications of the Covid-19 crisis on the global economy, it seems natural to turn to the past in search of clues and answers. This talk will explore the role played by pandemics in shaping the destiny of a man once described as ‘the richest commoner in England’ and the company that he directed: William ‘Guillermo’ Gibbs (1790–1875). Particular attention will be paid to his formative years in Spain and the measures he undertook hand-in-hand with his brother George Henry Gibbs to transform the family company Antony Gibbs & Sons into a global commercial powerhouse with permanent agents in Europe and the Americas – all before acquiring a spectacular country house near Bristol, Tyntesfield, now under the care of the National Trust. The discussion will be a follow up to one of the chapters in the recently published book Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, ed. The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) that emanated from the work of the international research network ‘The Hispanic-Anglosphere: transnational networks, global communities (late 18th-20th centuries)’ funded by the AHRC and the University of Winchester in partnership with the National Trust Tyntesfield.
Chair and discussant: Professor Chris Aldous (University of Winchester).
This event is free and open to the public
For more information about the MHRC, please contact Professor Chris Aldous and/or Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers at MHRC@winchester.ac.uk
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