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FOR ALL WITH AN INTEREST IN THE HISTORY
OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE BRITISH RAJ
PAST LECTURES
The 2021-22 and 2022-23 series of lectures have been uploaded to YouTube subject to speakers’ consent. See further down the page for individual links. The playlist can be found here.
​2024-25
Monday 11 November 2024
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations that built British Colonialism
Philip J. Stern
Tuesday 10 December 2024
John Company's Armies: The Military Forces of British India
Peter Stanley
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Making Empire: Ireland and India
Jane Ohlmeyer
Monday 24 February 2025
The Rise and Fall of the City of Lucknow
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Tank Warfare in Burma
Jack Bowsher
Tuesday 15 April 2025
Fighting Retreat: Churchill in India
Walter Reid
​2023-24
Tuesday 24 October 2023
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company
David Howarth
Tuesday 14 November 2023
The East India Company in Persia
Peter Good
Tuesday 28 November 2023
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
Nandini Das
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India
Tom Young
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Conquering the Maharajahs
Harrison Akins
Tuesday 16 April 2024
The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the Indian Army
Raymond A. Callahan and Daniel Marston
​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
Tuesday 21 February 2023
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company
Chris Mason
Tuesday 18 April 2023
The Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan
Heather A. Campbell
​2021-22
Tuesday 14 December 2021
Wellington and the British Army’s Indian Campaigns 1798-1805
Martin R. Howard
Wednesday 16 February 2022
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
Roderick Matthews