Each year on 23 June arrives an occasion of template lament for Bengalis: the defeat of Siraj-ud-daulah at Plassey at the hands of forces led by Robert Clive and Bengal’s subsequent quick subjugation by the East India Company.
Basildon Park THREE of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire s most historic buildings features in a National Trust report about links to colonialism and slavery. The report titled The Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust was first published last September. Two historical buildings in Berkshire are named in the document, including Ashdown House and Basildon Park. Cliveden House in Taplow, Buckinghamshire also appears on the document. Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable, Head Curator, National Trust said: From the sixteenth century, merchants had sought increasingly to consolidate their socio-economic and political status by acquiring country estates and marrying their children into the landed classes.
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