Diary Dates
Â鶹´«Ã½Newsletter readers, family and friends may be interested in the following events:
| Date / Time | Event | Place |
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 for further details. |
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 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. |
Tuesday 26 May 2026, 11:30-13:00  | ‘Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia’ A joint BIHT and Indian Civil Service Society lecture by Sam Dalrymple, followed by (optional) lunch | University Women’s Club, 2 Audley Square, Mayfair, London W1K 1DB Click 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 for further details (and to purchase tickets). |
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.  |
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