This project aims to explore the archives of three convents that housed cloistered nuns in the city of Lima under Spanish rule (17th to the early 19th centuries). These archives hold documents that inform about not only elite women that lived in these convents, but also of people from other social and ethnic backgrounds that took part of the life of these institutions.
The records copied by this project have been catalogued as:
This project will build on the achievements of the previous EAP project conducted by the Institute of Ethnomusicology. On that occasion, three provinces of Peru were covered: Cajamarca, Ancash and Junín - all located to the north of Lima. This project will cover the Departments of Ayacucho,…
The archives identified for this major project hold very valuable, unique and vulnerable material. They have been selected after the detailed pilot study (EAP294) visited some of the main archives in the country and carried out an in-depth study of the state of the newspaper collections that exist…
This project aims to digitise the valuable yet damaged 19th-century collection of medical documentation from the Cercado asylum (Manicomio del Cercado), once located in central Lima and now hosted by the Larco Herrera mental hospital’s museum. The asylum’s archival documentation covers a period…
This project aims to ensure that the historical documents produced between the sixteenth and the twentieth century in landed estates around Peru and collected during the 1969-1973 agrarian reform are preserved and made available for general discussion and specialised study. They are held in parlous…
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