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2008-07-17 14:40
A World Development Movement Seminar in conjunction with Brick Lane Circle
Tuesday 29th July 2008, 7-9pm
Idea Store, Labs 4 & 5, 321 Whitechapel Rd , London E1 1BU
Climate change is the most urgent issue facing humanity. It is likely to have devastating effects for many...
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2008-06-29 10:37
by Dr Margaret Makepeace
7 July 08, 2.30-4.30pm
The British Library, St Pancras, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB
Dr Margaret Makepeace is a Senior Archivist in the India Office Records at The British Library and an author. She has researched various aspects of the history of the East India Company,...
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2008-06-23 09:32
2 July 2008, 7-9pm
Seminar by Dr Joya Chatterji
Venue: Lab 1&2, Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU
Dr Joya Chatterji was educated at the Universities of Delhi and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she is now a Fellow and Lecturer in History. Her first book published...
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2008-06-02 09:32
Brick Lane Circle is delighted to announce that it has received a grant of £46,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to engage a group of young people (18-25) to explore East London’s historical links with Bengal through researching and writing about the area’s East India Company...
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2008-06-01 21:38
The Battle that changed East End
Sunday 22 June 08, 11am-5pm
Lab 4 & 5, Idea Store Whitechapel
321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU
23 June 2008 will be the 251 years anniversary of the Battle of Plassey, a decisive day when the British conquered Bengal underthe leadership of Robert...
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2008-05-12 18:31
The event will look at the scope of The Battle of Plassey Young People’s Project; local East India company sites and researching about thearea’s past links with Bengal. It will include presentations by Nick Robbins (author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped...
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2008-05-11 22:36
The project will engage a group of young people (18-25) from diverse backgrounds to explore East London’s historical links with Bengal through researching and writing about the area’s East India Company sites. The context is the 250 Years Anniversary of the Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757), which...
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2008-04-10 19:00
The Brick Lane Circle is organising a special comedy and networking evening to celebrate the culmination of its programme of events for Spring 2008.
Thursday, 10 April 2008, 6.30pm - 9.00pm
Lab 4 & 5, Idea Store, 321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU
FREE ENTRY, Advance booking only! For...
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2008-04-07 19:00
7 FEB -
By Benjamin Zeitlyn, who studied MA in Migration Studies in 2003/4 (University of Sussex), researching on Bangladeshi community in Spain for his dissertation. Subsequently he went to Bangladesh to conduct research about migration from Bangladesh to Italy and Spain, where he spent six months...
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2008-04-04 13:50
The project will engage a group of young people (18-25) from diverse backgrounds to explore East London’s historical links with Bengal through researching and writing about the area’s East India Company sites. The context is the 250 Years Anniversary of the Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757), which...
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