On 08 February 2017 at 13:57 John Lubbock
<john.lubbock(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
If you have ideas Charles, I'm very happy to hear them. I just don't know
what our connections with the Indian diaspora in the UK are right now and
whether they'd be interested in doing something on these records, rather than
preferring something on their own culture. You're welcome to propose ideas and
to suggest people we might work with. I'm all ears. :)
Other end of the telescope for me, really. We do have
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_East_India_Company_directors
and that says it was compiled from the EIC records. Looking down that list of
names, one leapt out at me: it was the subject of a thread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Carbon_Caryatid#Richard_Smith
which led to something good. Namely, a correct identification of the model
(alleged) of the legal case in Bleak House. A good example of "follow the
money", which is not in the nabobs and planters mainstream.
Well, I like complicated narratives and tangled family history. Feels like
genuinely getting to grips with British history.
Charles