BIHT Zoom Lecture: Monday 24 February 2025, 18:30-20:00 GMT
Valerie Haye, of the British in India Historical Trust, has supplied the following details of a zoom lecture being given on Monday 24 February by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones:
The Rise and Fall of the City of Lucknow
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Monday 24 February 2025, 18:30-20:00 GMT (ZOOM)
Lucknow enjoyed a short but spectacular rise after the Nawabs of Avadh made it their capital. Celebrated as a city of palaces, shrines and extraordinary European-inspired architecture, the arts of dance, music, drama, poetry, painting and silverware flourished under its immensely wealthy rulers. This cultural splendour ended when the East India Company annexed Avadh and the Indian Mutiny erupted. The city was occupied by rebel sepoys and Lucknow became famed throughout the Empire for the defence of the British Residency by its garrison of soldiers and civilians, its reliefs by Havelock and Outram and its eventual fall to the British, which reduced sectors of the city to rubble.
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE is a renowned historian of colonial India. Her many books include Lucknow 1857 (2022); The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah; The Uprising of 1857; A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow; and, most recently, Empire Building: The Construction of British India, 1690-1860.
Lectures are broadcast via Zoom and are available UK-wide and to an international audience. Lectures are recorded and uploaded to YouTube for two weeks. Links are emailed to all ticket-holders.
Tickets for this lecture cost £5. Click here to book tickets (online, by post, or by bank transfer).
Valerie Haye
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