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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 series of lectures has been uploaded to YouTube subject to speakers’ consent. See foot of the page for individual links. The playlist can be found here. Lectures have been arranged in historical order.
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 17 January 2023
Hooghly: The Global History of a River
Robert Ivermee
Tuesday 21 February 2023
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company
Chris Mason
Tuesday 21 March 2023
1857: Mutiny or Uprising?
Rana Chhina, Andrew Ward & Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
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
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Anglo-India and the End of Empire
Uther Charlton-Stevens
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
William Barnes Wollen, The Last Stand of the 44th Foot at Gundermuck, 1842, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.