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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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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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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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