Digitisation of the East India Company records of St Helena, South Atlantic (EAP1364)

Aims and objectives

This project addresses the East India Company (EIC) period records of the South Atlantic island of St Helena. The earliest records date to 1673, with the document sequence continuing through to the end of EIC governance in 1834, when the island became a Crown Colony. The project involves the digitisation of over 350 volumes, which as a whole capture the politics, society and everyday life of this remote but highly significant British possession.