Travel / Meeting Report: East India Company at Home Presentation at the
IHR in London, 8 February 2012
It was a great opportunity to hear more about the work of the East India Company at Home project
and to meet interested scholars and students working in related fields afterwards.
The session was chaired by Amanda Vickery and included short presentations by all project
associates, Margot Finn, Helen Clifford, Kate Smith, and Ellen Filor, speaking on the foundations of
the project and its methodology, the historiography of country houses, material culture and
hybridity with the examples of a pair ivory chairs at one of the country houses, and on the
relationship between home and colony as mitigated through Scottish poetry respectively. After a
lively question and answer session, Meike Fellinger and me made some valuable contacts at the
after-seminar drinks and dinner, including an archvist at the BL who specialises in private trade and
Susan Benett, honorary secretary of the RSA.