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The East India Company and Nelson

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2011

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Professor Andrew Lambert considers the career of Horatio Nelson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.5

and this is the fourth of our September 2011 editions. Coming up, we have. The ambition in that

0:53.1

man's face with the rough collar around his neck is quite something.

0:56.0

You see somebody whose hand is on the globe.

0:59.0

That was John McAleer on the foundation of the East India Company.

1:03.0

The spirit he showed in apocryphally tangling with the polar bear would lead him on to many great things.

1:09.0

That was Andrew Lambert on Horatio Nelson.

1:37.4

Our first interview is with John McAlear, who is one of the curators for the brand-new gallery at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

1:43.2

It's called Traders, the East India Company and Asia, and it opens on the 28th of September.

1:45.6

You can find out more by visiting the National Maritime Museum website, which is www. nmm.ac.uk. Makalir is also author of a book,

1:54.9

along with H. V. Bowen and Robert Blythe called Monsoon Traders, the Maritime World of the East

1:59.8

India Company, just published by the National Maritime Museum.

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