Written by project associate Angela Nutting, this case study explores how generations of the Bond family became connected to global trade and the East India…
Written by project associate Jan Sibthorpe, ‘Sezincote, Gloucestershire’ tracks the development of Sezincote house during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The study begins with…
Project associate David Williams has contributed a case study to the project, which explores the intergenerational commitment that members of the Melvill family made to…
NEW CASE STUDY! Ships, Steam and Innovation: An East India Company Family Story c.1700-1877 This contribution to the East India Company at Home project originates…
Project associate and author Penelope Farmer has contributed a family-focused case study to the East India Company at Home project. In her study Penelope primarily…
Project associate Hannah Armstrong (currently writing her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London) has contributed a case study on the Wanstead Estate in Essex. Josiah…
Montreal Park was originally built by Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-97) in the 1760s, to mark both his return from America and his Canadian…
This case study seeks to focus on one particular Asian material, rattan, and its relationship to changes in furniture design and production skills. In doing…
This case study examines a group of ‘Chinese’ staircases built within the fabric of three different house interiors in north-east Wales in the 1750s and…
General Patrick Duff (1742-1803), commander of the East India Company’s Artillery in the 1790s, left behind no great mansion. However, he did however leave an…
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