LIVE LECTURES
The Indian Mutiny
In 2024 The British in India will present two live lectures on the Indian Mutiny from 6:30pm to 8pm on Monday 10 June and Monday 14 October at University Women's Club, 2 Audley Square, Mayfair, London W1K 1DB. The first, by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, was on ‘The Rise and Fall of the City of Lucknow’ and details of the second, by Sir Mark Havelock-Allan, are given below.
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Lectures will be presented in the Library and preceded by drinks and book sales in the Dining Room from 5:30pm. For those who would like to stay, an optional two-course meal (main course, dessert and coffee) from 8pm to 9:30pm will follow in the Drawing Room. Tickets for the lecture cost £20 and for the lecture and meal £58.50. Drinks can be purchased separately from the pay bar in the Drawing Room before and after the lecture.​
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HOW TO BOOK
How to book
Tickets may be booked online by card (fees apply) or by cheque or bank transfer. See below.
MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 2024 18.30-20.00
Onward, Christian Soldier: Havelock's March to Cawnpore and Lucknow
Sir Mark Havelock-Allan KC
In mid-Victorian Britain, Major General Henry Havelock was the most celebrated military commander since Nelson and Wellington. His heroic march across northern India to relieve the beleaguered British garrisons at Cawnpore and Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny captured the public's imagination like no other since Waterloo.​
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With his small force of 1500, Havelock set out from Allahabad in July 1857 to march through searing heat and monsoonal rain the 175 miles to Cawnpore and Lucknow. Opposed by tens of thousands of mutinous sepoys, he fought three battles to reach Cawnpore, arriving too late to save the garrison there, and a further five battles before he fought his way into the British Residency at Lucknow, preventing its fall and the massacre of everyone in it. In this lecture Sir Mark Havelock-Allan recounts the life and deeds of his soldier ancestor, who was as renowned for his evangelical fervour as his military achievements.​
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Sir Mark Havelock-Allan KC is a retired judge. He is the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Havelock and is President of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia.
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AT University Women's Club, 2 Audley Square, Mayfair, London W1K 1DB
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The lecture will be will be presented in the Library and preceded by drinks and book sales in the Dining Room and Garden from 5:30pm. For those who would like to stay, an optional two-course meal (main course, dessert and coffee) from 8pm to 9:30pm will follow in the Drawing Room. Tickets for the lecture cost £20 and for the lecture and meal £58.50. Drinks can be purchased separately from the pay bar in the Drawing Room before and after the lecture. Dietary requirements accommodated where notified to info@britishinindia.org.uk.
All welcome. (Bookings for the lecture and meal close on 9 October and for the lecture on 14 October unless sold out.)
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ALAMY / NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM
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