Provisional Conference Programme Announced

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 27^th 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 28^th 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, 31^st 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

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