Newspaper Archive

These papers provide invaluable evidence of early globalization, embodying the history of travel, migration, and exchange and bearing witness to the longstanding interconnections between the global north and south. The AnglophoneChile project seeks to bridge the divide separating South American from European and North American collections, while contributing these foreign-language Chilean periodicals to the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile's digital archive.

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Launched in 2016, the project is currently in its first phase. We have followed best practices in digitising four of the periodicals published by the British colonists in Valparaíso, Chile:

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• Valparaiso English Mercury (1843-44)

• Valparaiso and West Coast Mail (1867-74)

• The Star of Chile (1904-06)

• Valparaiso Review (1894-96)​

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We prioritise titles based on a combination of archival and practical factors: the English Mercury is the earliest newspaper published by the British colony, while the VWCM and the Star had relatively short runs (enabling relatively quick digitisation of the full run) as well as a wide variety of content, increasing their value for researchers as well as general readers.

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Meanwhile, the Valparaiso Review is the only magazine in our collection; it, too, had a short run and is of high cultural interest.

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In the project's second phase, scheduled to begin in 2023, we hope to digitise the rest of the newspapers produced by the colony (see the Newspaper Timeline, linked beneath the About the Newspapers tab above).

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals' Eileen Curran Field Development Grant (2018), which made possible this project's first phase.