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 aims to rescue, organise and protect parish documents of historical interest presently dispersed in 19 localities of the Huacho diocese in Peru. In its first phase, the project involves visiting the parishes to assess the number and quality of existing documents dating from before 1940…
This project carries on from the earlier project EAP333. The main objective of this project is to digitise the 273 parish books and 47 marriage books dating from 1900 to 1940 of the parishes that make up the Diocese of Huacho: the provinces of Sings, Huaral, Huaura, Barranca, Oyon and Cajatambo,…
This project aims to ensure that the historical documents produced between the sixteenth and the twentieth century in landed estates around Peru and collected during the 1969-1973 agrarian reform are preserved and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…
One of the most important photographic archives in the southern Peruvian Andes, the Vargas Hnos archive (Arequipa, 1912-1960), is in need of rescue. For the first stage of EAP1580, approximately 11,627 gelatine silver photographic negatives on a glass support will be selected to go through a…
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