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SUMMARY:AGM and Open Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Programme for the Day\n1030 – 1200 hrs: FIBIS experts will be available to answer questions. \n1200 – 1300 hrs: Lunch \n1315 – 1400 hrs: Annual general meeting. \n1400 – 1500 hrs: Those that stayed: British communities in India after 1947  \nDr. Eleanor Newbigin shares her findings from the recent Partition in India and Britain project. She interviewed British people\, and their family members\, about their experiences of Partition. The interviews revealed important differences in experiences between South Asian and European Britons\, particularly in terms of exposure to violence and forced migration. There were also differences within the experience of European Britons who left shortly after Partition and those who stayed-on. This presentation shares some of these stories and discusses their significance for both historical accounts of the 1947 partition and of British imperialism in South Asia. \nDr. Eleanor Newbigin is senior lecturer in the history of modern South Asia at SOAS\, University of London. She worked with Prof Navtej Purewal (also at SOAS) on the recent Border Crossings and Partition in India and Britain\, both funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. \n1500 – 1530 hrs: Tea break \n1530 – 1630 hrs: ‘Inspiring Scenes\, Suggestive Subjects – Happy Opportunities \nSeized on by Clever Artists’: Exhibitions of Amateur Art in British India Renate Dohmen shares her on-going research on fine art exhibitions in British India which blossomed from the late 1860s in presidency towns and hill stations across the subcontinent.\nOrganised by local fine art societies\, the exhibitions showcased the work of amateur artists of both sexes\, a small number of professionals\, including Indian artists\, amateur and professional photographers and local handicrafts. These exhibitions were important events in local and national social calendars. \nRenate Dohmen is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. \n** Please register your intention to attend the AGM and open meeting on the FIBIS website. Names are required in advance by the Union Jack Club for security reasons.** \nALL WELCOME. ADMISSION FREE
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/agm-and-open-meeting-2024/
LOCATION:Union Jack Club\, Sandell Street\, London\, SE1 8UJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Open meetings
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240812
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SUMMARY:Auckland Family History Expo
DESCRIPTION:Auckland Family History Expo\,  at the Fickling Convention Centre Mt Roskill\, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 August 2024.\nFIBIS will have a stand at this 10th anniversary event. We will provide research assistance and a cash only bookstall. Come and catch up. Full programme here: www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/AFHExpo
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/auckland-family-history-expo/
LOCATION:Fickling Convention Centre\, 546 Mt Albert Road\, Three Kings\, Auckland\, 1042\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Shows
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240930
DTSTAMP:20260405T221749
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SUMMARY:FIBIS 25 Years Conference - FULL CONFERENCE
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate 25 years of FIBIS and further your family history research! \n\nSpeakers and Workshops\n1:1 Research Advice\nSpecial Interests\nGala Dinner and much more!\n\nThe Conference will run from 10am on Friday 27 September until Sunday 29 September at 4pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Oxford Belfry London Road\, Milton Common\, Thame\, Oxfordshire\, OX9 2JW. \nThere are both Residential and Day booking options. This well-appointed hotel is conveniently situated near the town of Thame and easily accessed by car from the M40 with lots of guest parking. There are direct trains to the local station Haddenham & Thame Parkway from London Marylebone\, Oxford and Birmingham. The hotel is a short taxi drive from the station. Delegates will have access to all the hotel’s amenities which include a Spa/Swimming pool\, Gym and Tennis Courts. There is a bar area and plenty of room to meet and socialise with other Delegates. \nAlthough you can pay for your bookings by PayPal\, we would prefer payment by Bank Transfer please\, if possible. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/fibis-25-years-conference-full-conference/
LOCATION:DoubleTree by Hilton Oxford Belfry\, Milton Common\, Thame\, OX9 2JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:25 Years Conference
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SUMMARY:FIBIS 25 Years Conference – DAY DELEGATE OPTIONS
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate 25 years of FIBIS and further your family history research! \n\nSpeakers and Workshops\n1:1 Research Advice\nSpecial Interests\nGala Dinner and much more!\n\nThe Conference will run from 10am on Friday 27 September until Sunday 29 September at 4pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Oxford Belfry London Road\, Milton Common\, Thame\, Oxfordshire\, OX9 2JW. \nEARLY BIRD RATES END 31 MARCH 2024 \nAlthough you can pay for your bookings by PayPal\, we would prefer payment by Bank Transfer please\, if possible.
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/fibis-25-years-conference-day-delegate-options/
LOCATION:DoubleTree by Hilton Oxford Belfry\, Milton Common\, Thame\, OX9 2JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:25 Years Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240930
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SUMMARY:FIBIS 25 Years Conference – WEEKEND CONFERENCE
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate 25 years of FIBIS and further your family history research! \n\nSpeakers and Workshops\n1:1 Research Advice\nSpecial Interests\nGala Dinner and much more!\n\nThe FULL Conference will run from 10am on Friday 27 September until Sunday 29 September at 4pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Oxford Belfry London Road\, Milton Common\, Thame\, Oxfordshire\, OX9 2JW. \nTHIS TICKET OPTION IS FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ONLY. \nThere are both Residential and Day booking options. This well-appointed hotel is conveniently situated near the town of Thame and easily accessed by car from the M40 with lots of guest parking. There are direct trains to the local station Haddenham & Thame Parkway from London Marylebone\, Oxford and Birmingham. The hotel is a short taxi drive from the station. Delegates will have access to all the hotel’s amenities which include a Spa/Swimming pool\, Gym and Tennis Courts. There is a bar area and plenty of room to meet and socialise with other Delegates. \nAlthough you can pay for your bookings by PayPal\, we would prefer payment by Bank Transfer please\, if possible.
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/fibis-25-years-conference-weekend-conference/
LOCATION:DoubleTree by Hilton Oxford Belfry\, Milton Common\, Thame\, OX9 2JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:25 Years Conference
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SUMMARY:Autumn Open Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Programme for the Day\n*** PLEASE NOTE THE NEW FORMAT *** \n1000 – 1100 hrs: FIBIS experts will be available to answer members’ questions. \n1100 – 1200 hrs: Indigo Cultivation in India \nRichard Morgan will be speaking about indigo cultivation in India. From the late 18th century indigo was cultivated in India to produce the blue dye we are familiar with in jeans. Several hundred “concerns” (ie indigo companies) were established in many parts of India\, especially in Bihar. Relations between planters and the ryots\, Indian labourers\, were not always cordial and a “Blue Mutiny” broke out in the 1860s. Indigo planting declined from then onwards\, as artificial dyes competed\, but some concerns survived well into the 20th century.\nThe talk will also briefly mention planters of other crops in India such as coffee and cinchona (quinine). \nRichard is the author of the FIBIS Research Guide No 2 British Ships in Indian Waters and several FIBIS Fact Files which include two recently published (Nos 8 and 9): one on Tea planters and the other on Indigo and Jute. \n1200 – 1300 hrs: Lunch \n1300 – 1400 hrs: Burma Rifles: The Unknown Army \nSteve Rothwell introduces the story of one of the ‘unknown’ armies of World War II. Fighting alongside the British and Indian Armies against the Japanese\, the Burma Army was administered quite separately. These soldiers – Burmese\, Indian and Gurkha – contributed their unique knowledge of the land\, its peoples and its languages. Soldiers of the Burma Army were prominent during the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942; they fought on the Indian frontier; they were present at Kohima; they operated behind Japanese lines with the Chindits; they took part in the Chinese-American struggle for Myitkyina; they supported every Anglo-Indian formation during the reconquest of Burma. \nSteve Rothwell has researched the war in Burma for over two decades. His findings are published on his web site: The Burma Campaign at (indiaburmasoldiers.co.uk) \n1400 – 1500 hrs: FIBIS experts will be available to answer members’ questions. \n*** Please register your intention to attend the AGM and open meeting on the FIBIS website. Names are required in advance by the Union Jack Club for security reasons. *** \nCheck to FIBIS website for updates \nALL WELCOME. ADMISSION FREE
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/agm-and-open-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Union Jack Club\, Sandell Street\, London\, SE1 8UJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Open meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250628T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250628T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T221749
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SUMMARY:Open Meeting and Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Programme for the Day\n*** PLEASE NOTE THE NEW FORMAT *** \n1000 – 1100 hrs: FIBIS experts will be available to answer members’ questions. \n1100 – 1200 hrs: Indian Mutiny Pensioners living in Natal. \nIn 1906 the Military Department of the Government of India granted pensionary assistance to Indian Mutiny veterans living in British Colonies who had fallen into distressed circumstances. Drawing on research conducted at the Natal Archives in Pietermaritzburg\, Stewart Green tells the story of five such veterans who were living in Natal at the time and who made applications for this special Indian Mutiny pension. Stewart delves into the lives of these individuals and offers a glimpse into their micro-histories. \nStewart Green is a FIBIS trustee who was born in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). His grandfather was born in India and moved to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the 1920s where he established a tobacco farm that is still farmed by his descendants today. His maternal grandfather was born in a Boer war concentration camp in Wentworth\, Durban\, but that is a story for another day. \n1200 – 1230 hrs: FIBIS Annual General Meeting. \n1230 – 1330 hrs: Lunch \n1330 – 1430 hrs: ‘Like ships rigg’d into the World’: Families and Friends Adrift in the early English East India Company’ \nEarly British presence in the Indian Ocean world – and in South Asia\, in particular – has historically been cast as the concern of lone merchants\, diplomats\, and small units of East India Company ‘servants’. Families\, siblings\, and even close friendships have rarely figured into the wider social and cultural histories of this period. This impression is misleading. Mark will draw upon under-explored diaries and private correspondence from this period and explore the many ways which global trade strained family bonds\, forced new associations\, and how a sense of intimacy and emotional connection could be maintained across vast distances. \nMark Williams is Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. He has published widely on the English and Dutch East India Companies\, and is currently writing a cultural history of the English EIC for publication in 2026. \n*** Please register your intention to attend the AGM and open meeting on the FIBIS website. Names are required in advance by the Union Jack Club for security reasons. *** \nALL WELCOME. ADMISSION FREE
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/open-meeting-and-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Union Jack Club\, Sandell Street\, London\, SE1 8UJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Open meetings
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251011T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T221749
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SUMMARY:Autumn Open Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Programme for the Day\n1000 – 1100 hrs: FIBIS Bitesize.  A new section to the open meetings with short presentations offering ‘bitesize’ advice to genealogists.  This meeting we will look at: \n\nTop tips for making a research visit to a library or archive by Karen de Bruyne.\nResearching the Honourable East India Company’s maritime service’s records by Dr Richard Morgan.\nUnderstanding Indian Army ranks Part 1 by Mike Tickner.\n\n1100 – 1200 hrs:  The Development of Railways in India 1832-1951 \nAs in Britain\, the first railways in India were associated for industry rather than passenger transport.  Developing a passenger and freight networks occurred towards the end of the 1840s and was inspired by Lord Dalhousie\, the Governor-General and a former President of the (British) Board of Trade.  Dalhousie created a network which developed during the British Raj through to the establishing Indian Railways in 1951. \nHugh Wilding is a former FIBIS trustee and began researching his family roots 30 years ago.  With an abiding fascination in Britain’s own railway system and the knowledge that his great grandfather was a railway civil engineer in India and Burma\, it was inevitable that Hugh’s focus would alight on railways of the sub-continent.  \n1200 – 1300 hrs:   Lunch     \n1300 – 1400 hrs: ‘Little atoms of humanity’: Christian missions to blind and deaf children in nineteenth and early twentieth-century India and Ceylon.   \nIn 1915\, the missionary Gladys Bergg wrote to her supporters back home about the blind and deaf children under her care in Ceylon.  She wrote of the children at the blind and deaf mission\, ‘several of these have only just been admitted into the school and are the most charming little atoms of humanity!’  This talk explores the work of British missionaries amongst disabled South Asian children in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, thinking through the complex dynamics of race\, gender\, religion and disability in the way in which these children were treated and understood.  \nDr Esme Cleall is a senior lecturer in the history of the British Empire at the University of Sheffield. She has published two monographs\, one on missionaries and the other on disability history\, interests which this talk brings together.  \n*** Please register your intention to attend the meeting on the FIBIS website.  Names are required in advance by the Union Jack Club for security purposes. *** \nCheck to FIBIS website for updates \nALL WELCOME.  ADMISSION FREE
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/autumn-open-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Union Jack Club\, Sandell Street\, London\, SE1 8UJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Open meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260321T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260321T113000
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SUMMARY:Bigamist and Balloonist - Zoom
DESCRIPTION:A Zoom talk by Karen de Bruyne about her 2nd cousin 3x removed\, James Neil Campbell ( a Campbell from Duntroon) was born in India\, lived in England\, lived in Australia and then back in England. was married at least 5 times\, 4 of them were bigamous! He had various occupations including balloonist\, parachutist\, saddler and apprentice merchant sailor. \nTo join the talk FIBIS members can log into the FIBIS website and find a link to the talk Zoom Meetings page. Non-members will need to email valmay@fibis.org and details will be emailed nearer the time.
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/bigamist-and-balloonist-zoom/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Meeting and AGM  
DESCRIPTION:Programme for the Day\n1000 – 1100 hrs:  Curzon’s Chosen Men: Political Officers on the Periphery of Empire.\n\nIn the early 20th century\, Indian Civil Servant and Political Resident John Gordon Lorimer and Political Agent Captain William Shakespear used their diplomatic\, linguistic\, intelligence and exploration skills in the Arabian Peninsula and Persia.  Their work enhanced Britain’s understanding of this periphery of Empire\, leaving geopolitical legacies which continue to resonate long after their careers were tragically cut short.\n\nAlan Dillon is a former Royal Marine who joined the Foreign\, Commonwealth and Development Office.  As a diplomat\, he served in Afghanistan\, Taiwan\, Sri Lanka\, Saudi Arabia\, Oman and Whitehall.  He is a Royal Historical Society Fellow\, occasional university lecturer and author of ‘Captain Shakespear\, Desert Exploration\, Arabian Intrigue and The Rise of Ibn Sa’ud’ and ‘Lorimer\, His Gazetteer and Britain’s Pursuit of Knowledge’.  \n1100 – 1200 hrs:   Mutiny 1857 – the Indian perspective. \nMany British books on the Mutiny describe the defeat of rebel forces with great military detail\, while Indians see it as their First War of Independence.  What both sides neglect is how ordinary Indians suffered during the so-called ‘Red Year’.  This lecture will describe the main events of the Mutiny before looking at specific outcomes in detail.  \nDr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE is an historian specialising in 18th and 19th centuries Colonial India. She has written and lectured extensively and has been tour leader for groups visiting India.  She is an Executive member of BACSA and a Royal Asiatic Society council member.  \n1200 – 1300 hrs:  Lunch.  \n1300 – 1330 hrs:  Annual General Meeting.    \n1330 – 1500 hrs:  With Ox Carts & Dooli Bearers – Medals of India to 1947. \nHave you ever wondered about the story behind family members’ medals?  With examples taken from the Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Corps of Transport Medal Collection (1794-1993)\, the curator of the collection\, Nathan Smith will explore some of the medals associated with India and its Army.  The audience can then discuss their family medals with the Curator.  He is unable to give valuations. \nSince 2015\, Nathan Smith has been the curator of the RASC and RCT medal collection\, one of the premier military collections of medals in the UK.  The collection covers most of the campaigns of the British Army since 1794 and includes many medals to soldiers for service in India and with their Armed Forces. \n*** Please register your intention to attend the meeting on the FIBIS website ***   \n*** Check to FIBIS website for updates *** \nALL WELCOME.  ADMISSION FREE
URL:https://www.fibis.org/event/open-meeting-and-agm/
LOCATION:Union Jack Club\, Sandell Street\, London\, SE1 8UJ\, United Kingdom
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