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When East Meets West
May 25 , 2022
Making Remarkable Connections has shaped The East India Company, transforming the world with fusion of cultures, materials and skills. We remember ...
The Merchants Mark
May 05 , 2022
Soon after its creation, the company began to use a ‘balemark,’ which identified The Company’s products as they arrived in busy ports or were sold ...
A View of London from the Thames
May 05 , 2022
For our Signature Peppermint, we've chosen a splendid illustration, a 'View of London from the Thames' by John Bluck, included in one of the 3 volu...
Walking the Tightrope in Darjeeling
Apr 13 , 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 13 , 2022
Connections to royalty for The East India Company date back to Elizabethan times with the issue of Royal Charter in 1600, but it was Charles II and...
The Good Ship Waterloo
Apr 13 , 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 13 , 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 13 , 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...
