Jess Kidd and Mike Dash on the Batavia – 27 March

The Bloomsbury Hotel The Bloomsbury Hotel, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London

We're delighted to welcome back Jess Kidd to the Society to discuss her novel, The Night Ship. The novel is based on the extraordinary story of the Batavia, the flagship of the Dutch East India Company that in 1628 was wrecked on Morning Reef, on the Houtman Abrolhos islands off western coast of Australia. Its wrecking was followed by factions ...