The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 was a 3-year Leverhulme Trust-funded research project based in the Department of History at the University of Warwick (2011-2012) and University College London (2012-2014). The project was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and ended in August 2014. Over three years the core project team and over 300 project associates worked together to examine the British country house in an imperial and global context.
Professor Finn will continue to blog (and tweet) about developments connected with the project and themes related to colonial material cultures. Have questions? Contact:
m.finn@ucl.ac.uk
Minto House, Roxburghshire – Home to the Elliott family
Principal Investigator Margot Finn is currently writing a case study of Minto House to be published on the project website in late 2013.
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Caroline KnightMay 20, 2014 at 9:45 pm ·
I would be very interested to read the case study of Minto House and I wonder if there is any information on when it is likely to be published. In the early 1970s my father bought and set about renovating the nearby stables, gymnasium and other outbuildings. As a child I spent many happy hours exploring the corridors and endless rooms of this amazing (but slowly decaying) house wondering about the people and the lives of those who used to live in it.
CK
Elizabeth Pearce (Watson)August 8, 2014 at 5:51 pm ·
I was sad to see that minto house had been demolished. I was a pulpit there from 1957 to 1961 when it was craigmount school and the Headmistress was Miss Laird. I have many memories of being there.
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I would be very interested to read the case study of Minto House and I wonder if there is any information on when it is likely to be published. In the early 1970s my father bought and set about renovating the nearby stables, gymnasium and other outbuildings. As a child I spent many happy hours exploring the corridors and endless rooms of this amazing (but slowly decaying) house wondering about the people and the lives of those who used to live in it.
CK
I was sad to see that minto house had been demolished. I was a pulpit there from 1957 to 1961 when it was craigmount school and the Headmistress was Miss Laird. I have many memories of being there.