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Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia
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| Anthony Farrington |
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From 1989 until his retirement in 1999, Anthony Farrington was a deputy-director at The British Library, where he was in charge of the India Office Collections (formerly the India Office Library & Records). He joined the India Office Records in 1964. The Records was successively a department of the UK Commonwealth Relations Office, Commonwealth Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office; the India Office Library & Records were deposited with The British Library in 1982. Anthony Farrington was Secretary of the British Records Association (1969-73) and Secretary of the Association of Commonwealth Archivists (1984-92). In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has had extensive first-hand experience in Asia, including contacts and programmes in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, China and Japan. His numerous publications include Sir William Foster: A Bibliography (1972), Guide to the Records of the India Office Military Department (1982), Lord Curzon's Japan Diaries (1985), The English Factory in Japan 1613-1623 (1991), The English Factory in Taiwan 1670-1685 (1995), Catalogue of the East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834 (1999), A Biographical Index of the East India Company Maritime Service Officers (1999) and a fiche edition of the approximately 58,000 pages of the surviving files of the India Office's secret intelligence organisation, Indian Political Intelligence (2000). He is the author of Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834 (2002) and consultant to the accompanying exhibition at The British Library.
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