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Walking the Tightrope in Darjeeling
Apr 12 , 2022
William Daniell was only 16 when he first set sail with his uncle to Calcutta in 1785. A grand adventure for a young man. Before long, he was a pai...
A Royal Breakfast Coronation
Apr 12 , 2022
Connections to royalty for The East India Company date back to Elizabethan times with the issue of a Royal Charter in 1600, but it was Charles II a...
The Good Ship Waterloo
Apr 12 , 2022
Borrowing a classic East India Company commissioned painting by William Huggins, a typically heroic image of a merchant ship Waterloo, shown off Wh...
East India Madder Red
Apr 12 , 2022
It started with the ‘Piece Trade’ - the Company’s trade in a variety of textiles from India – calicoes, ginghams, muslins, chintzes to name only a ...
Death by Chocolate
Apr 12 , 2022
An extract: “Death By Chocolate – The fanciful name of this famous chocolate cake conjures up images of an exquisite death caused by over-indulgen...
Emperor Nero’s Saffron Bathwater
Apr 12 , 2022
An extract: “Saffron was and remains, the most expensive spice in the world. Originating in the Near East, it was used by the Persian as both a fla...
A Brazilian French Press
Apr 12 , 2022
An extract: “Here is the tale of Don (de Melo Palheta) Francisco, sent by the Emperor of Brazil to steal coffee seeds from French Guyana in 1727. T...
Captain Kidd: Protector to Pirate
Apr 12 , 2022
An extract: “Pirates were rife in the Indian Ocean, and Moghul shipowners plying the route from India to Arabia, having accepted the Company as na...
