Eva Chatterji

@e_chatterji

Writing and researching the events of 1857, all things Raj, military and the East India Company. HWA Member.

Joined December 2022

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Apr 29

It is up, it is out and it is live! “Courage in Chaos — Saving the Lucknow Residency” is now available to purchase via the Barnthorn website — barnthornpublishing.co.uk And via Amazon — amzn.eu/d/0eftmP7 With many thanks to everyone at @barnthorn and to @CatArthurian…

e_chatterji's tweet image. It is up, it is out and it is live! “Courage in Chaos — Saving the Lucknow Residency” is now available to purchase via the Barnthorn website —

barnthornpublishing.co.uk And via Amazon — amzn.eu/d/0eftmP7

With many thanks to everyone at @barnthorn and to @CatArthurian…

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Barnthorn Publishing Limited@barnthorn · Jul 19

Join us in congratulating Daniel Knowles on the publication of his book, Reaping the Whirlwind. It's available to purchase via our website - barnthornpublishing.co.uk And Amazon amzn.eu/d/6XWWCRy #NewBook #MilitaryHistory #RAF #RoyalAirForce #BomberCommand #SecondWorldWar

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 18

Have you bought your ticket yet for the Victorian Military Society conference at @NAM_London on Sat 6th Sept? The day features talks on the Crimean War. Speakers include maritime historian Professor Andrew Lambert & NAM's art curator Susan Ward. Details at victorianmilitary.org

VVictorianMilitarySoc@BritishSquare · Jul 15

Copies of the summer issue of our journal SOTQ are dropping onto VMS members' doormats this week. If you're not a member of the VMS, this is what you're missing out on! If you're interested in Victorian & Edwardian #military history, subscribe now at victorianmilitary.org

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 20

mutinyreflections.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/not… Sir James Outram held the Alambagh with noted success, but it was a fight to the very end. We now turn our attention to what fighting around the Alambagh entailed. It is the 21st of December, 1857.

e_chatterji's tweet card. “This sketch is a view of the interior of the ‘Allum Bagh’ into which the enemy’s round shot are plunging, as I write, from positions about twelve hundred yards distant. About one…

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Ian Pegg@HistoryPegg · Jul 19

A #Weekend message about appreciating the little things in life. The memories and other things that are within us that sustain us. Never forget they are important to who we are. Have a really brilliant weekend. #BeKindAlways DMs open if you need to talk. #WeekendWisdom

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History Rage Podcast@HistoryRage · Jul 18

🗓️ #OTD 18 Jul 1612 The infamous Pendle Witch Trials began 🧙‍♀️⚖️. In Series 7 @DannyBuckUEA reveals the realities of witchcraft accusations and that they weren’t just old herbalist women. 🌿🚫 #history #podcast #onthisday #otd #onthisdate 🎧 Listen now at: pod.fo/e/1819bf

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 16

mutinyreflections.wordpress.com/2022/07/14/the… This is an older article I wrote for the anniversary of the Bibighar where, 168 years ago, a dreadful deed was committed. "Remember Cawnpore" would echo through the coming times with terrible consequences.

e_chatterji's tweet card. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Massacre of Cawnpore. For those who died, there is no “Lest We Forget…,” there is no shrine of remembrance, no one who grieves with flowing tears at that woebegon…

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 15

What do you do when you are homesick? Is there a cure?

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Catherine Arthur@CatArthurian · Jul 14

What's hiding under winter's snow? Read to find out...

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 13

Spending the afternoon watching Live Aid. It is fun to go back to 13.

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 12

mutinyreflections.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/the… The final chapter in the lives of five Lawrence brothers - Henry and John.

e_chatterji's tweet card. Having explored the lives of three Lawrence brothers, we shall now turn our attention to the final and most famous of the five – Henry and John. Henry Montgomery Lawrence, ca 1828 Henry was b…

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Christian Parkinson@redcoathistory · Jul 9

Victorian Military Society Annual conference is scheduled and tickets go on sale tomorrow! If you are fascinated by the Crimean War then you should really go. . . Details below and via @BritishSquare

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 7

Eva's new book on the relief of Lucknow is brilliant. Anyone interested in the Indian Mutiny will enjoy it.

EEva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 7

redcoathistory.podbean.com/e/courage-in-c… Many thanks to Christian Parkinson @redcoathistory for the opportunity to introduce 'Courage in Chaos' on Red Coat History!

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 7

redcoathistory.podbean.com/e/courage-in-c… Many thanks to Christian Parkinson @redcoathistory for the opportunity to introduce 'Courage in Chaos' on Red Coat History!

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Narayan Kaudinya@narayankaudinya · Jul 5

Few years ago, i found an opportunity to travel again through Central India. Through the oldest jungles. It was a time of limited communications. Freedom of another kind. Not a baggage of expectations, of calls and answers after every turn.... Read more road-to-nara.com/2025/07/03/rar…

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Eva Chatterji@e_chatterji · Jul 4

It is the 4th of July 1857. Sir Henry Lawrence dies in the Lucknow Residency, just two days into the siege.

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