The British Library’s Untold Lives blog reveal fascinating stories using documents held in the BL’s own archives.
The blogs listed below relate to people mentioned in the podcast or whose stories were revealed during the project. There are more EIC blogs on the Untold Lives site.
A dramatic account by a passenger about the sinking of an East India Company ship.
Judith went out to India to visit her brother but found herself treated like a ‘package of goods’ in the marriage market.
Henry was a 15 year old boy on his first great adventure.
William Crawley’s doodlings in the log of the ship Ceres reveal his homesickness and his hopes for the future.