Diary Dates
BACSA Newsletter readers, family and friends may be interested in the following events:
| Date / Time | Event | Place |
On now (until Sunday 22 Mar 2026) | ‘Swords of Lucknow’ Exhibition of swords crafted in the splendour of the ‘flourishing centre of power, artistry and cultural exchange’ that was 18thc and 19thc Lucknow. | Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN. Click here for further details. |
On now (until Sunday 12 Apr 2026) | ‘Flora Indica’ Exhibition of botanical illustrations by Indian artists commissioned by British botanists between 1790-1850. | Galleries 1-4, Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew Gardens, London TW9 3EG. Click here for further details. (Click here if you would like to join the BACSA group visit to the Kew Gardens Exhibitions on Wednesday 18 March 2026). |
On now (until Sunday 12 Apr 2026)  | ‘Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire’ In an exhibition inspired by Kew’s botanical archives, Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh (‘the Singh twins’) explore ‘the deep connections between botany, empire and trade’. | Gallery 5, Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew Gardens, London TW9 3EG. Click here for further details. (Click here if you would like to join the BACSA group visit to the Kew Gardens Exhibitions on Wednesday 18 March 2026). |
On now (until Monday 13 Apr 2026)   | ‘Beyond Burma: Forgotten Armies’ An exhibition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Burma Campaign, and the role played by the Indian, British, African and Asian forces in defeating the Imperial Japanese Army. | National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT Click here for details of the exhibition and the accompanying series of public events. |
On now (until Monday 4 May 2026)   | ‘Women of Influence: The Pattle Sisters’ An exhibition about the lives and work of the seven Anglo-Indian sisters whose influence in art, literature, photography and society ‘extended from Calcutta to Kensington, and from the salons of Little Holland House to the Bloomsbury Group’. | Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Guildford GU3 1DQ Click here for further details. |
Tuesday 10 Mar 2026, 18:30-20:00  | ‘Curzon’s Chosen Men: Political Officers on the Periphery of Empire’ A BIHT lecture by Alan Dillon (online) | Zoom Lecture Click here for further details, including registration. |
Friday 13 Mar 2026 (10:30-17:00) and Saturday 14 Mar 2026 (10:30-16:05)  | ‘Arms and Armour from Asia, Africa, and the Ottoman World’ A 2-day Conference organised by the Wallace Collection ‘one of the finest assemblages of arms and armour in a public collection’. (In person, and online) | The conference will be held in the Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, of the Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN. The conference will also be broadcast live on Zoom. Click here for further details, including registration. |
Wednesday 25 Mar 2026, 18:00-19:30  | ‘The Confrontation, 1962-1966’ A Lecture by Richard William Currie, in the Governor’s Lecture Series at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. | The State Apartments, Royal Hospital Chelsea, Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4SR (Entry via London Gate) Click here for further details, including registration. |
Thursday 26 Mar 2026, 11:30  | BACSA Annual General Meeting (Members only) | Union Jack Club, Sandell Street, London SE1 8UJ. Click here for further details, including registration. |
From Thursday 26 Mar 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 here for further details, including registration. |
Tuesday 14 Apr 2026, 18:30-20:00  | ‘Churchill’s Forgotten Generals’ A BIHT lecture by Raymond Callahan (online) | Zoom Lecture Click here for further details, including registration. |
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 here for further details (and to purchase tickets). |
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