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Susannah Gillard

‘I wish to remain in Bombay’: Testimony of liberated enslaved women in 19th century

In 1847, the East India Company’s Indian Navy captured vessels with 47 women and girls and 12 boys in the Persian Gulf and brought them into Bombay Harbour.

Susannah Gillard
· Jun 19, 2022 · 01:30 pm
Politics, revelry and massacres: East India Company logs reveal what happened on trade ships

Entries between the 1600s and 1800s record finances, weather patterns and life at sea.

Susannah Gillard
· May 23, 2020 · 01:30 pm
How Britain sought to drum up support for the Allies in Indonesia during WWII

The Ministry of Information wanted to circulate portraits of Muslim rulers who had pledged their support to the war effort.

Susannah Gillard
· Oct 22, 2018 · 09:30 pm