Snapshots of Empire is a new project based at the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. This project is the first attempt to examine, within specific sample periods, all the incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Colonial Office and the East India Company/ India Office. Analysis of the chosen ‘snapshots’ from 1838, 1857, and 1879 will be a key component in the writing of a new historical geography of empire.
Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
