The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.

The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor.  Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.

This International Woman’s Day, travel from the political vicissitudes of Rome to the sun draped heat of the Sasanian empire, through cold moors and loveless houses, to gardens at the heart of England and London’s diluvian crowds.