Letters Home

By: Ciel Haviland
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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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Episodes
  • The Birds of South India and Elizabeth’s Watercolors with Dr. S. Subramanya

    The Birds of South India and Elizabeth’s Watercolors with Dr. S. Subramanya
    Oct 27 2024

    Digital 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 information Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural Histories, find their website here.
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    39 mins
  • Henry Gwillim and 19th Century English Law in India with Arthur MacGregor

    Henry Gwillim and 19th Century English Law in India with Arthur MacGregor
    Oct 13 2024

    For 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, which includes a presentation from Arthur MacGregor on Henry Gwillim.

    More work from the prolific Arthur MacGregor:
    St Helena: An Island Biography (2024)
    The India Museum Revisited (2023)
    Company Curiosities: Nature, culture and the East India Company, 1600–1874 (2018)
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    49 mins
  • A Decolonizing Lens and Centering the Indian Perspective with Dr. Minakshi Menon

    A Decolonizing Lens and Centering the Indian Perspective with Dr. Minakshi Menon
    Sep 29 2024

    Dr. 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 symposium on those who were in the background of the letters: Missing Voices: South Asian Perspectives on the Gwillim Archives

    other pieces:
    What’s in a name? William Jones, ‘philological empiricism’ and botanical knowledge making in eighteenth-century India

    Chapter in Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World
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    45 mins

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