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1704East India Co's sales
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1704East India porcelain
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1709Queen's Royal Cookery
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1710Cabinet of curiosities
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1715Sugar in Britain
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1720Bartholomew Fair
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1721Gulliver's Travels
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1725Executions at Tyburn
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1730Textile production
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1730Cities in chaos
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1731East India textiles
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1733The Harlot’s Progress
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1741Handel's Messiah
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1742Advert for a giant
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1743Surgery
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1743Muffin Seller
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1744JS Bach manuscript
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1747The Art of Cookery
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1751Henry Fielding: Crime
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1751Gin addiction
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1753Ranelagh pleasure gardens
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1755Johnson's Dictionary
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1761'The British Giant'
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1766Jigsaw Puzzle Map
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1770The Spinning Jenny
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1771Pleasure gardens
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1771Factories
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1773London prostitutes
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1775Captain Cook's journal
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1776Declaration of Independence
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1780Map of the Gordon Riots
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1780Storming of the Bastille
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1781Runaway slaves
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1784First curry powder advert
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1784First hot air balloon
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1787Abolitionist meeting notes
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1787Georgian entertainments
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1790Georgian Theatre
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1791Mozart’s notebook
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1791Poverty
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1791Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
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1792Mary Wollstonecraft
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1793Execution of Louis XVI
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1794William Blake's Notebook
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1795An acrobat's 'Surprising Performances'
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Intro
At this time the East India Company was Britain’s most powerful trading organization, shipping goods such as spices, fabrics, tea and porcelain from Asia to Europe in vast quantities. This is a copy of the East India Company's sales catalogue for March 1704. The document records the amount of pepper bought by the Company in China. By the early 18th century the Company was trading regularly with the Chinese, buying mainly tea, silk and porcelain. Over the next century, tea would become a hugely popular drink in England.
From this time on, in India the East India Company became more of a ruling power than a trading company, with the increasing involvement of the British government. A period of progressive domination followed so that, by 1858, when the East India Company was dissolved and the administration of India was taken over by the Crown, Britain controlled India, Burma, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Shelfmark: BL: OIOC: H/10ff.3v
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Transcript
East India Company's sales catalogue
PEPPER, DRUGGS, CALLICOES, And Other GOODS, FOR SALE AT THE East-India-house,
Commencing the 28th of March, 1704.
To be seen at the Exchange Cellars.
Pepper Jambet 1503 Bags, more or less by several Ships in Time, in 121 Lots, sifted for Exportation at 198, per I. to adv 1/2d.
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