Report on the State of UK-Based Research on Latin America and the Caribbean 2014

Antoni Kapcia is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Nottingham, where he is also Director of the Centre for Research on Cuba. His main area of research is modern and contemporary Cuban history, with a focus on ideology and also on cultural and political history. Recent publications include " Cuba in Revolution. A History since the 1950s" (2008), "Literary culture in Cuba: Revolution, nation-building and the book" (2012) and "Leadership in the Cuban Revolution: the unseen story" (2014).Linda A Newson is Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, where she chairs the Latin America and Caribbean Panel of its International Engagement Committee. She has written widely on the demographic and cultural consequences of Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and the Philippines. Recent monographs include "From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Seventeenth Century" (with Susie Minchin) (2007) and "Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines" (2009).