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Tall Tales of The Monsoon Trade
Sitting comfortably? Then let us tell you a story…
*This event will now be taking place in the Octagon Room at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
The Traders Unpacked official storyteller-in-residence Seema Anand, will be joined by authors and poets spinning beguiling yarns. Join historian Robert Blyth, co-author of Monsoon Traders, storyteller Seema Anand, author Bobby Singh Bansal and journalist Razia Iqbal of the BBC in the beautiful Octagon room.
View the Traders: the East India Company and Asia gallery, before settling down with our panel to listen to the fascinating untold aspects of this once-dominant corporation. Tales of truth woven with fiction will span the maritime expeditions of the company through to the fate of the Europeans of Lahore after they returned home.
This event is part of the launch of the permanent new gallery at the National Maritime Museum, Traders: the East India Company and Asia.
