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Join the revolution!
July 10, 2018 - Anna Husband
Can you suggest a great item from a museum, gallery or private collection to add to our Revolutionary collection? One that can tell a story of new ideas, change, uprising, invention? If so, we would love to hear from you! The Age of Revolution focuses on the period 1775 – 1848, a time […]
Captain Cook voyages through The British Library
June 13, 2018 - Richard Moss
The British Library follows the journeys of the man who opened up the world during the Age of Revolution in James Cook: The Voyages Captain James Cook’s name has always been synonymous with exploration and adventure, but even in the 1770s when the American Revolutionary War was underway, such was his fame that none other […]
Stephenson’s Rocket heads back up north to Manchester
June 13, 2018 - Richard Moss
The iconic Stephenson’s Rocket, which was built to run on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world’s first inter-city passenger railway line, will be on display at the Museum of Science and Industry from September 22 2018 until April 21 2019. Rocket secured its place in railway history after winning the Rainhill trials, in 1829. […]
A new Waterloo film drama takes shape
May 26, 2017 - Richard Moss
A new film drama is being developed by filmmaker Blake Sporne that takes The Battle of Waterloo as the backdrop to a story that explores friendship, loyalty and family ties in times of extreme peril. Developed with screenplay writer Ross Owen Williams, Producer Sporne has made a sumptuously filmed proof of concept for the new film, called […]
NPG campaigns to save famous portrait of the Duke of Wellington
November 3, 2016 - Richard Moss
The National Portrait Gallery is hoping to add a distinguished and famously unfinished portrait of the Duke of Wellington to its collection with a major fundraising appeal. Sir Thomas Lawrence’s final portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, has been offered to the gallery for £1.3 million with the appeal kick started via […]
Jane Austen200 celebrates a life in Hampshire in 2017
October 20, 2016 - Richard Moss
One of the great literary figures of the Napoleonic age will be celebrated in Hampshire during 2017 as Jane Austen 200 kicks into gear with events and exhibitions across the county of her birth. With 2017 marking the 200th anniversary of the death of the globally loved author, a year-long series of events in Hampshire […]
Summer Book Competition – Win Michael Crumplin’s Bloody Fields of Waterloo
August 15, 2016 - Richard Moss
Competition now closed – thank you to all who entered! We are offering you the chance to win a copy of The Bloody Fields of Waterloo, Michael Crumplin’s masterly account of medical support and surgery during and after the battle. Part of the Waterloo 200 team, Michael is a retired surgeon from Wrexham, a […]
Napoleon, Abel Gance’s 1927 epic digitally restored
February 10, 2016 - Richard Moss
A new chapter in the story of one of the classics of silent cinema is about to begin as Abel Gance’s legendary epic, Napoleon (1927), is re-released in all of its operatic glory. A new digitally restored version of the cinematic triumph, courtesy of the BFI and director and historian Kevin Brownlow, will hit cinemas […]
George Rose: A black soldier at Waterloo
February 5, 2016 - Richard Moss
As the BBC releases details of its new landmark history programme, A Black History of Britain, an interesting object in our 200 Objects of Waterloo online collection highlights the often forgotten role of black soldiers during the Napoleonic period. The discharge papers of George Rose, held at the National Archives, reveal the service history of […]
Brontë200 launches with Charlotte Brontë exhibitions
February 3, 2016 - Richard Moss
The 200th birth anniversary of Charlotte Brontë, one of the key figures of the later Georgian and early Victorian eras, is remembered in 2016 as the Brontë Society launches Brontë200 with a trio of exhibitions. The author of Jane Eyre is celebrated in her former home, the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, Yorkshire with an […]