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A Gift to a King
Jun 07 , 2022
Business for The East India Company was growing fast by the middle of the 17th century and a key factor was the continual renewal of the Royal Char...
The Merchant's Mark
May 05 , 2022
Soon after its creation The Company began to use a ‘balemark,’ which identified its products as they arrived in busy ports or were sold on the trad...
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 ...
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...
Remarkable Connections
Apr 12 , 2022
Look closely at our Pyramid Tea Bag cartons. Look at the faint lines criss-crossing randomly across and around the pack. These are no ordinary line...
