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Articles with the Tag East India Company

Heritage: Southampton street names’ connections to Britain’s ignoble colonial past

Heritage: Southampton street names’ connections to Britain’s ignoble colonial past

Heritage
Published on July 30, 2023

by Martin Brisland. When you walk through the Bedford Place area of Southampton, have you ever realised that some of the street names are linked to Britain’s ignoble colonial past and the East India Company? Southampton was a minor port in the 1830s at the end of its time...

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