How the Lines Built the Anglo-Indian Community When the East India Railway ran its first train out of Howrah in 1854, no one could have imagined that this single line, climbing up the Ganges plain toward Delhi, would become the skeleton on which an entire…
The Burbidges of Northamptonshire In the English Midlands, between the green valleys of the Nene and the Welland, lay a different kind of industrial country than the mills and collieries of the north. Here, farming was the foundation, but laid over it ran a set…
The short life of Joseph Moore junior In 1858 an army surgeon described Joseph Moore as “a very old soldier quite unable to march or to perform any active duty.” The words suggest a man at the end of a long life. Joseph was thirty-eight…
For many years, my great-great-great-grandfather Joseph Moore, was little more than a name in the family tree. We knew only that he had served in India, married there and raised a family, but the details of his life were difficult to recover. A collection of…