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.