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Diary Dates

51³Ô¹Ï Newsletter readers, family and friends may be interested in the following events:

Date / Time	Event	Place
On now (until Sunday 21 June 2026)	‘Painters, Ports and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850’ Exhibition featuring ‘over 100 objects from Asia’, including ‘rich opaque watercolours, large-scale oil portraits, evocative architectural drafts’ and a ‘spectacular’ 37′ long scroll depicting the city of Lucknow.	Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Click for further details.
On now (until Sunday 1 Nov 2026)	‘Journeys through cloth’ Exhibition of textiles from Karun Thakar’s collection ‘centring on Punjabi baghs and phulkari, traditionally embroidered by young girls and women’ at Osterley Park, a National Trust property.	Osterley Park, Jersey Road, London TW7 4RD Click for further details.
On now (until Sunday 8 Nov 2026)	‘The last Princesses of Punjab’ Exhibition about the ‘Punjabi princess and suffragette icon’ Sophia Duleep Singh, and ‘the women who shaped her’	Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, London W8 4PX. Click for further details, including registration.
On now (until Sunday 13 Dec 2026)	‘Colonial Views of India’ The ‘first exhibition focusing on photographs and negatives in the Ashmolean’, featuring ‘previously unseen photographs of India by Colonel Eugene Clutterbuck Impey (1830-1904)’	Ashmolean Museum (Gallery 29), Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH. Click for further details.
From Monday 1 Jun 2026, 10:30-15:00	‘The Visakhapatnam Cabinet’ Made from padauk wood in the port city of Visakhapatnam c.1760, this ivory-inlaid cabinet (‘the largest and most ornate piece of furniture of its kind in the National Trust’s collection’) returns to display at Kingston Lacy, a National Trust property, after conservation work at the Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio at Knole, Kent.	Kingston Lacy, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Click for further details (and directions, eg ‘satnav unreliable; follow B3082 and brown signs’).
From Monday 8 Jun 2026 – Monday 13 Jul 2026	‘The relentless rise of the East India Company’ Lecture tour by the historian William Dalrymple, covering ‘more than two hundred years of tumultuous colonial history, covert political machinations, and bloody resistance’	Lectures will be held at venues in: Birmingham, Chester, Tunbridge Wells, Guildford, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Malvern. Click for further details (and to purchase tickets).
Sunday 14 Jun 2026, 2pm-3pm	‘Indian Forces Chattri Memorial Service’ Memorial Service in remembrance of ‘the Indian and Nepalese soldiers from Undivided/Prepartitioned India who were cremated in Brighton during the First World War’	Indian Forces Chattri Memorial, Patcham Down, Standean Lane, Brighton BN1 8ZB. Refreshments afterwards at Hove Albion Football Club, American Express Stadium, Village Way, BN1 9BL. Click for further details.
Thursday 18 Jun 2026, 11:30am – 4:00pm	‘51³Ô¹Ï Visit to Brighton Pavilion’ Tour of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, emphasising its ‘Indian-influenced architecture, and its time as a WW1 War Hospital for Indian Army soldiers.’	Royal Pavilion, Brighton, Sussex BN1 1FN. Click here for further details, and to make a booking.
Saturday 27 Jun 2026, 10:00am-15:00pm	‘FIBIS Open Meeting and AGM’ FIBIS (Families in British India Society) Open Day and AGM. Lectures include ‘Curzon’s Chosen Men’ (Alan Dillon); ‘Mutiny 1857 – the Indian Perspective’ (Rosie Llewellyn-Jones) and ‘With Ox Carts & Dooli Bearers – Medals of India to 1947’ (Nathan Smith)	Union Jack Club, Sandell Street, London SE1 8UJ. Click for further details, including registration.
From Wednesday 1 Jul 2026 – Friday 31 Jul 2026	‘South Asian Heritage Month 2026’ Launched at Cardiff University’s Bute Building on 26 April 2026, this year’s SAHM theme is ‘#UnityInDiversity’. ‘Our histories are different. Our experiences are varied. But the values that run through us, family, resilience, hospitality, belonging, connect us all. This July, we celebrate exactly that’.	Use ‘#UnityInDiversity’ ‘#SouthAsianHeritageMonth’ and ‘#SAHM2026’ on social media to sign up to the SAHM Newsletter, find out how to get involved, and learn about planned SAHM events.
From Tuesday 8 Sep 2026 – Sunday 7 Mar 2027	‘A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire’ An exhibition of ‘treasures from the vibrant world of song, poetry and performance of Mughal South Asia from around 1750 to 1850’ .	Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB. Click for further details.
From Saturday 19 Sep 2026 – Sunday 31 Jan 2027	‘Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now’ This major survey exhibition will reveal Sunil Gupta’s (b. 1953, New Delhi) ‘pioneering contribution to photography over five decades… in Delhi, Montreal, New York and London’.	Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ. Click for further details.

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