Telling better stories - why we need to talk about Raffles

Telling better stories - why we need to talk about Raffles

Julie Gittoes and Dave McCormick on a local resident with a complicated legacy Thomas Stamford Raffles by James Thomson (“Engraved by Thomson, from a Miniature in possession of Mr. Raffles” – 1824) Though the name Raffles is most commonly associated with hotels, Barnet has a significant connection to the man behind the famous name: not a hotelier but Sir Stamford Raffles, an employee of the East India Company.   Raffles was one of those involved…