Tea and the Decline of British Outreach in the Himalayas (1811-1864)
Historical Features
02 July 2024 | Inwa Advisers | Features
The Strange World of Ceylon’s Kandy Kingdom
Robert Knox and the Missions of John Pybus and Hugh Boyd (1658-1782)
19 December 2023 | Inwa Advisers | Features
The Life & ‘Cruell and Barbarous’ Death of Gabriel Towerson
A Merchant in Java, India, and the Moluccas (1601-1623)
27 June 2023 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Bhutan and Tibet as a Back Door to China
George Bogle, Samuel Turner, Samuel Davis (1774-1792)
22 December 2022 | Inwa Advisers | Features
An Accidental Path to China
The Story of the English Factory in Taiwan (1670-1685)
07 July 2022 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Pirates of the Sulu Sea
Borneo and Labuan; British Seamen and a Bishop Battle with the Illanuns and Balinini (c.1800-1880)
22 December 2021 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Frustrations and Derring-Do on the Red and Perfume Rivers
Vietnam's Kingdoms of Tonkin and Cochin China (1613-1778)
09 June 2021 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Going Off the Rails in Sumatra and Borneo
Sukadana, Bencoolen, Banjarmasin and Balambangan (1611-1775)
22 December 2020 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Sir George Scott of the Shan States and the Wild Wa
Exploits among the Head-Hunters of Burma's Eastern Frontier (1875-1903)
20 June 2020 | Inwa Advisers | Features
The Exploits of Frank ‘One-Arm’ Sutton
Doing Business with Siberia's Bolsheviks and China's War Lords (1919-1932)
20 December 2019 | Inwa Advisers | Features
How Ava Met His Waterloo
The Story of Lord Dufferin and James Whitaker Wright
06 July 2019 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Hugh Cleghorn, the de Meuron Regiment and Lord Camelford
How Two Characters with a Talent for Espionage Met in a Field in Ceylon in 1796
21 December 2018 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Imperial Green Jade
Britons Prospecting in the Hills of Burma's Kachin State (1835-1889)
20 June 2018 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Getting Nowhere Fast in the Hermit Kingdom
Early Encounters in Korea (1613-1832)
18 December 2017 | Inwa Advisers | Features
Legstretchers on the Road to Persia and India
Thomas Coryate, John Mildenhall and the Sherley Brothers (1598-1627)
24 June 2017 | Inwa Advisers | Features
The ‘Warres’ of Thomas Best and Nicholas Downton
Turning the Tables on the Portuguese in India (1612-1615)
19 December 2016 | Inwa Advisers | Features
An ‘Embassadour’ at Jahangir’s Court
The Travails of William Hawkins (1608-1613)
17 June 2016 | Inwa Advisers | Features
‘Siamese’ White: A ‘Very Ill Man’ and a ‘Great Interloper’
First British Adventures in Burma and Siam (1612-1690)
27 December 2015 | Inwa Advisers | Features
The Troublesome Voyages of the Edward Bonaventure
Early Lessons on the Route to the Indies (1582-1594)