“Burying our Money in Stone Walls”: Fortification and the East India Company, c. 1690–1740
Wednesday 5 February 2020, 1.00PM
Speaker(s): Tim Riding (York)
Department of History Research Seminars, Spring 2020
Tim Riding will speak on '“Burying our Money in Stone Walls”: Fortification and the East India Company, c. 1690–1740.'
Everyone is welcome to attend this free event - no tickets are required. Please contact the convenor of the series or Events Administrator Sarah Hall with any questions.
This event is part of the Department of History's Spring 2020 research seminar series. The department runs a lively and diverse programme of seminars during the Autumn and Spring term each year. Seminars starting at 1pm will be held in the Vanbrugh Senior Common Room, those starting at 17:30 will be held in V/N/123.
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Full programme for this season: |
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15 January |
Mezna Qato - School Daze: Palestinian educations after defeat, 1948 -1967 |
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22 January |
Sabine Clarke - Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya |
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29 January |
Christienna Fryar - The constitutional politics of asylum provision in postemancipation Jamaica |
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5 February |
Tim Riding - “Burying our Money in Stone Walls”: Fortification and the East India Company, c. 1690–1740 |
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12 February |
Justine Trombley - Hunting the Heretic Book: Inquisition and Condemned Texts in the Late Middle Ages |
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19 February |
Andrew Rotter - “Olfactory Empire: Smell and the Other in Imperial India and the Philippines" |
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26 February |
Marie Legendre - Perceptions of administrative violence in the early Islamic empire |
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4 March |
Tatyana Zhukova - 'A "great present" for the Tsar: The English carriage in Anglo-Muscovite diplomacy of 1604' |
Location: Vanbrugh Senior Common Room (Vanbrugh College), University of York
Admission: Free to attend, all are welcome