The Coat of Arms
Jun 08 , 2022
The original East India Company was honoured by being granted a Coat of Arms by HM Queen Elizabeth I. It was given as a symbol of her confidence in...
Jun 08 , 2022
The original East India Company was honoured by being granted a Coat of Arms by HM Queen Elizabeth I. It was given as a symbol of her confidence in...
Jun 08 , 2022
Robert Home’s oil painting of Lord Cornwallis, Governor General of India, receiving the Mysore hostages in 1792 reflects a new British zeitgeist in...
Jun 08 , 2022
The tea plant is well worth celebrating for its beauty as well as for its usefulness. It's a small evergreen plant with dark, pointy leaves with s...
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 ...
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...
May 05 , 2022
Our bottle has been as carefully crafted to tell our story as the gin itself. When next taking a sip, take a moment with the bottle: The closure is...
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...
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...