For all with an interest in the history
OF THE East India Company and the British Raj
The British in India Historical Trust presents Zoom lectures by authors of recently published books of interest to descendants of the British in South Asia between 1600 and 1947 and all who want to know more about the East India Company and the British Raj. It also awards annual book prizes for excellence in non-fiction historical writing. The British in India Historical Trust is a small charity.
PAST LECTURES
2022-23
Tuesday 25 October 2022
Guns, Money and Lawyers: The English Chartered Trading Companies 1688-1763
Mike Wagner
Tuesday 15 November 2022
The Company's Sword: The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism 1644-1858
Christina Welsch
Tuesday 13 December 2022
Licentious Worlds: India and The British
Julie Peakman
2021-22
Tuesday 19 October 2021
The Origins of the British Empire in Asia
David Veevers
Tuesday 16 November 2021
India in the Persianate Age
Richard M. Eaton with Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Tuesday 14 December 2021
Wellington and the British Army’s Indian Campaigns 1798-1805
Martin R. Howard
Tuesday 18 January 2022
The Estate of Major General Claude Martin at Lucknow
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Wednesday 16 February 2022
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
Roderick Matthews
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Ruling the Savage Periphery
Benjamin D. Hopkins
Tuesday 10 May 2022
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain 1941-45
Robert Lyman
Orlando Norie, The 78th Highlanders at the Taking of Sucunderabagh, Siege of Lucknow, 1857. The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library.