Research Reflection by an Undergraduate Research Assistant for Summer 2021 My research under the “Unstable Archives” project aims to build a born-digital archive of a rare family collection containing the personal artefacts of Elizabeth Sharaf un-Nisa, a native Indian woman who married a European man and moved with him to Britain. This project considers the […]
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Searching for Women in Between the Lines
Research Reflection by an Undergraduate Research Assistant for Summer 2021 “[N]o lady, native of India, even though her father should have been of the highest rank in the King’s or Company’s service…is ever invited to those assemblies given by the governor on public occasions.” Capt. Thomas Williamson, East India Vade Mecum1 As the East India […]
Capturing Imperial Women in the Digital Archive
Dorothy de la Hey established one of the first women’s college in India in the early 20th century and left with her family a large correspondence between England and India. In her later letters, Dorothy is in her early 90s. She lives in Cirencester, England, after devoting the majority of her life to directing an […]
Studying Gender Beyond the Archive
Dorothy de la Hey travelled from Oxfordshire to Madras to establish Queen Mary’s College in 1914, the first women’s college in Madras. Sharaf-un-Nisa Begum, the wife of a member of the British aristocracy in the early years of East India Company rule, travelled from Kolkata to Devon in the 1770s. If we were to rely […]
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