Letters Home
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Series Finale with Principal Investigator, Dr. Victoria Dickenson
Series Finale with Principal Investigator, Dr. Victoria Dickenson
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A podcast that enlivens the letters of the English sisters Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in 1801-1807 while they were in Madras, India, and enters into conversation with the researchers who investigated their lives.
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- Series Finale with Principal Investigator, Dr. Victoria Dickenson · 55 minDr. Victoria Dickenson The case study: Lady Gwillim's China The new project: Hidden Hands Welcome to Letters Home, a podcast that explores the lives and interests of Elizabeth…
- The deep detective work of deciphering handwritten letters and art with Dr. Rebekah McCallum and Hana Nikčević · 47 minScans of the original letters Hana's case studies: 'Best for this country' Curious for fish: Mary Symonds's fish watercolors Gwillim Student Symposium Welcome to Letters Home, a…
- How to learn about plants in 1801 with Henry Noltie · 45 minA great chat with Henry Noltie about plants and Elizabeth Gwillim's efforts to master botany and my cat needs to go in and out of the room. For the online symposium on Lady…
- Is it Costume or Dress? Talking about the history of clothing with a dynamic trio · 50 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 5Please enjoy this episode, where we get into English and Indian historic dress at the turn of the 19th century through Mary and Elizabeth’s letters with Alexandra Kim, Dr. Ann…
- The Birds of South India and Elizabeth’s Watercolors with Dr. S. Subramanya · 39 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 4Digital collection of Elizabeth Gwillim's watercolors of birds at McGill Rare Books and Special Collections here. More information at the Gwillim Project here. For more…
- Henry Gwillim and 19th Century English Law in India with Arthur MacGregor · 49 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 3For more on Henry Gwillim, some brief biographical information can be found here on the Gwillim Project website. There is also a Youtube symposium Personal Histories Revealed…
- A Decolonizing Lens and Centering the Indian Perspective with Dr. Minakshi Menon · 45 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 2Dr. Menon's introduction to the special edition of South Asian History and Culture can be read here (open access): Indigenous knowledges and colonial sciences in South Asia For a…
- Elizabeth and Mary in context with Dr. Anna Winterbottom · 45 min · Episódio 1Dr. Anna Winterbottom helps me to put the lives of Elizabeth and Mary in context of their place and time: what was India? What was science? How does one do that research? All of…
- Welcome to Letters Home! · 3 minWelcome to Letters Home, a podcast that explores the lives and interests of Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds, English sisters in India at the turn of the nineteenth century…
