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PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME – SUBJECT TO CHANGE
British India: Exploring Colonial Life and Family History
The presentations will be held in 2 theatres running simultaneously over the three conference days
Theatre 1: Historical, Trade & Military Insights
Theatre 2: Family History, Research & Resource
FRIDAY 27th September
1:1 SESSIONS – Morning spent with the Experts
JODY EAST – “How Brighton Pavilion was used as a hospital for Indian Soldiers during WW1
JEF PAGE – “The East India Company from 1600-1860s. Spices, Trade, Empire & Power”
JANET FEW – Are you Sitting Comfortably? telling your family’s story’
ELSE CHURCHILL – What the Society of Genealogists holds in its archives and library relating to British India and the Far East”
Evening – Dinner and after dinner entertainment – Quizmaster Hedley Sutton from the British Library
SATURDAY 28th September
SOPHIE KAY – “Memsahib and Mother: Centring the Female Experience of the British Raj.”
ROBERT IVERMEE – “Hooghly: The Global History a River”.
KAREN DE BRUYNE – “Researching British India, beyond India”.
IAN WALLER – “East India Company Cadetships”.
MARY-ANNE GOURLEY – “Furthering your British Indian research using Australian resources.”
LORD BRUCE “The Scottish Cemetery Project in Kolkata”
GERALDINE CHARLES – “Once Upon a Time … Far Across the Sea”
Evening – Drinks Reception, Gala Dinner, After Dinner Speaker
SUNDAY – 29th September
Free Time – with Experts on hand for 1:1
NANDINI DAS – “How to Greet an Elephant: Cross-cultural Encounters and the First English Embassy to India”
CHARLES HAYTER – Doctoring in the Tropics: Medical Life in Colonial India”
SUSAN SNELL – “Freemasons in India: finding your ancestors at the Museum of Freemasonry”
MIKE TICKNER – “A Head Ache and a Heart Ache: the Indian Army at Partition.”
RICHARD MORGAN – Title still to be notified
The “Early Bird” offer expires at midnight on Sunday, 31st March 2024.
You can save up to £76 on two delegates booking the full 3 day conference.
Come and join us – a warm welcome awaits