Tag: Colonial Records and researchPocahontas in London, 1616-17Tuesday 28 June 2016This month sees the 400th anniversary of the visit of Pocahontas, the Algonquian Indian...Records and researchThe Trinidad Water Riots of 1903Friday 1 November 2013As part of the research for the ‘Caribbean through a lens’ project at The...Records and researchImpressions of St Helena – the early 19th centuryFriday 15 March 2013As early as the 17th century, St Helena’s position in the South Atlantic made it...Records and researchAlexander Sutherland – a colonial intellectualSaturday 26 January 2013 Alexander Sutherland, Australian polymath Alexander Sutherland (born 1852) was the son of Scottish immigrants...Records and researchUK Government – did we rule the Empire with 4,000 civil servants?Wednesday 1 August 2012I was interested in some of the wider questions that were raised over the...