{"id":24,"date":"2017-08-23T17:27:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2017-09-01T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:09:45","slug":"blogs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Library&#8217;s <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk\/untoldlives\/\" target=\"_blank\">Untold Lives<\/a><\/em><\/strong> blog reveal fascinating stories using documents held in the BL&#8217;s own archives.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>Untold Lives<\/em> site.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/untoldlives\/2017\/06\/the-loss-of-the-east-indiaman-ganges.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Loss of the <em>Ganges<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A dramatic account by a passenger about the sinking of an East India Company ship.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/untoldlives\/2017\/06\/judith-weston-and-her-search-for-a-husband.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Judith Weston and her search for husband<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Judith went out to India to visit her brother but found herself treated like a &#8216;package of\u00a0\u00a0 goods&#8217; in the marriage market.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/untoldlives\/2017\/05\/henry-nicholetts-voyage-to-calcutta.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Henry Nicholetts&#8217; voyage to Calcutta<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Henry was a 15 year old boy on his first great adventure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/untoldlives\/2017\/08\/daydreaming-in-the-service-of-the-east-india-company.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Daydreaming in the service of the East India Company<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>William Crawley&#8217;s doodlings in the log of the ship Ceres reveal his homesickness and his hopes for the future.<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Library&#8217;s Untold Lives blog reveal fascinating stories using documents held in the BL&#8217;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. The Loss of the Ganges A dramatic account by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":987,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P96dD0-o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/eicvoyagessoton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}