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Hello world!

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Chinese Wallpaper

Chinese Wallpaper

Dr Helen Clifford, Senior Research Fellow on the project ‘East India Company at Home 1757 – 1857’ at UCL (Department of History), talks about the…

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Aske Hall, North Yorkshire

Aske Hall, North Yorkshire

Senior Research Fellow Helen Clifford began this case study in 2010.  On a visit to Aske Hall in North Yorkshire during the annual Open Heritage…

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An Introduction

An Introduction

Professor Margot Finn, Chair in Modern British History at UCL, introduces the research project ‘East India Company at Home 1757-1857’.

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Coromandel Coast Handkerchief

Coromandel Coast Handkerchief

Soon to be featured in the Englefield House Case Study.   Handkerchief Pulicat, Coromandel Coast, India, 1700s Painted and dyed cotton in flower sprigged pattern…

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The Team

The Team

(From left to right) Margot Finn, Ellen Filor, Kate Smith, Helen Clifford and Advisory Board Member Keith Sweetmore. The core project team is made up…

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The Indian Seal of Sir Francis Sykes

The Indian Seal of Sir Francis Sykes

To go to the full case study, click here. The seal was read by Professor A.M.K.Masumi, William Jones Professor at the Persian Department of the…

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Swallowfield Park, Berkshire

Swallowfield Park, Berkshire

Swallowfield Park, Berkshire is an archetypal English country house. Yet the evolving biography of this family seat, like the history of so many quintessentially ‘English’…

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Valentines Mansion

Valentines Mansion

Georgina Green’s case study explores the history of a house (Valentines Mansion, Ilford – shown left), a ship (the Valentine, in its successive reincarnations) and a…

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Warfield Park

Warfield Park

Dr Kate Smith, Research Fellow on the project ‘East India Company at Home 1757 – 1857’ at UCL (Department of History), talks about Warfield Park…

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