Languages and Cultures: Useful websites for Spanish and Latin American studies

A website created and maintained by the Cervantes Institute to promote the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures.

The most popular daily newspaper in Spain.

A collection of links to Spain, Portugal and Latin America-related internet resources, compiled by experts at the British Library.

A comprehensive gateway to online information relating to Latin America; managed by the University of Texas at Austin. Highly recommended.

Official website of the Spanish Department of Education and Culture. The "Education" section could be useful for students spending a year abroad in Spain. The "Culture" section provides access to digital libraries including the Spanish Film Institute (Filmoteca Española).

Information on Hispanic higher education

A useful resource for students spending a year abroad in Spain, with information on education, cost of living and much more.

The largest open-access repository of digitised Spanish-language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world.

A collection of digitised periodicals and photographs from the Ibero-American Institute in Germany.

A project developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison devoted to electronic versions of Latin American and Iberian works in the humanities.

This site provides links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. The materials listed are freely available to the public, and range from collections of Mexican incunabula (1559-1600), to Latin American posters.

A contextualised resource of Spanish-language plays for English-speaking researchers and theatre professionals.

Links to various official Spanish archives, including digitised collections.

Search across the catalogues of numerous university and research libraries in Spain

A foundation dedicated to promote understanding and engagement between Britain and the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world.

An international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History.

Discussion forum for scholars and academics with an interest in Spanish history and culture.

Organisation which promotes Spanish language and culture.

The official royal institution responsible for overseeing the Spanish language; includes free monolingual dictionaries.