#IBLAW21: Annual Manuel Irujo Lecture in Basque Studies
Start time: 15:00 / End time: 16:15 / Date: 10 Feb 2021 Open to: Students within this Faculty / Staff within this Faculty / Any UOL students / Any UOL staff / Any potential undergraduate students / Any potential postgraduate students / Any potential international students / General Public Type: Lecture Cost: This is a free event, however, please register via the Eventbrite link provided Contact: For more information contact Ana Bela Almeida at A.Almeida@liverpool.ac.uk Liverpool Basques and the Spanish Colonial Project: from Mundaka to Manila (via the Mersey) In the second half of the nineteenth century, a dense network of social, economic and maritime connections bound Liverpool to the port cities of the Hispanic world. Among the many Anglo-Hispanic merchant and maritime companies based in the city, the largest and most prominent was Olano, Larrinaga & Co., founded in 1862 by three Basque businessmen: Ramón de Larrinaga, José Antonio de Olano, and Juan Bautista de Longa. During the 1870s and 1880s, this company was the chief driver behind the establishment and rapid development of Liverpool’s Basque community, as hundreds of men and women from the small ports around Larrinaga’s home town of Mundaka on the Urdaibai estuary made their way to Liverpool. Some passed through; others settled, and their descendants remain in the city today. This talk will consider the part that Liverpool’s Basque community played in the Spanish colonial project in the Philippines, tracing the connections binding both company and community to Manila during the company’s most active, profitable and controversial period. We will explore how Olano and Larrinaga placed their growing fleet of ultra-modern steamships, captained by a tight-knit network of Mundaka-born cousins and in-laws with close connections to Liverpool, at the service of the Spanish Government – and look at the bitter controversies the company’s ambition generated back in Spain. Speaker: Prof Kirsty Hooper (University of Warwick) Prof Kirsty Hooper is a specialist in Spanish, Anglo-Spanish and Galician cultural history since 1800. Her particular interests include the global nineteenth century, mobilities, genealogies, and microhistories. Her research has been funded by the AHRC, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust, and her books include The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession; Mondariz-Vigo-Santiago: A Brief History of Galicia's Edwardian Tourist Boom, and Writing Galicia into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics. She is currently completing work on a book about Liverpool Basques and the Spanish Colonial Trade, and carrying out (virtual!) archival research for a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship project, Hispanic London: Culture, Commerce and Community in the Nineteenth Century City. Language: English Click on "Create a calendar file" and your browser will download a .ics file for this event. Microsoft Outlook: Download the file, double-click it to open it in Outlook, then click on "Save & Close" to save it to your calendar. If that doesn't work go into Outlook, click on the File tab, then on Open & Export, then Open Calendar. Select your .ics file then click on "Save & Close". Google Calendar: download the file, then go into your calendar. On the left where it says "Other calendars" click on the arrow icon and then click on Import calendar. Click on Browse and select the .ics file, then click on Import. Apple Calendar: The file may open automatically with an option to save it to your calendar. If not, download the file, then you can either drag it to Calendar or import the file by going to File >Import > Import and choosing the .ics file.About the event
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