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Waterloo on Show at Tate Britain
June 30, 2015 - Alwyn Collinson
This is a guest article by Greg Sullivan, Tate Britain Curator of British Art 1750 – 1830, and curator of the new Fighting History exhibition open until 13th September. The responses of artists to military victory is rarely straightforward. A walk around Tate Britain at present will tell you less about what happened at Waterloo […]
Watch an Epic Battle
June 22, 2015 - Alwyn Collinson
I’ve called this a “guest article”, but it’s really more of a guest video. Production company Epic History TV have made this fantastic segment explaining the Battle of Waterloo, which we post with their permission. I particularly love the animations which show the ebb and flow of the fighting over the day. Watch now:
Put Your Stamp on Waterloo
June 22, 2015 - Alwyn Collinson
Immediately after the Battle of Waterloo, thousands of the soldiers who fought wrote letters – to family, to wives and sweethearts, even reporting the news of Allied victory to the British government. You can read some of those letters in our 200 Objects of Waterloo series. 1815 was 35 years before the invention of the first […]
Winners of Richard Holmes Memorial Prize Announced
June 19, 2015 - Alwyn Collinson
On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Waterloo Association announced the winners of this year’s Richard Holmes Memorial Prize. Professor Richard Holmes died in 2010, but his legacy lives on in military history, and is commemorated by the prize. Awarded annually since 2013, the Richard Holmes Memorial Prize gifts £300 each to […]
Waterloo Lives: In Their Own Words
June 15, 2015 - Alwyn Collinson
Get involved in the National Army Museum’s project to capture previously hidden information about its unique Napoleonic archive. The National Army Museum has recently digitised a selection of its Napoleonic archive. This collection covers a wide range of material on the Battle of Waterloo and the wider Napoleonic conflict. It includes the personal journals and […]
The Returning Soldier
May 27, 2015 - Alwyn Collinson
Londoners are being treated to a very modern take on the life of a soldier, as a thought-provoking piece of street art, ‘The Returning Soldier’, was unveiled in Shoreditch to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 2015). Watch this video to find out more about the project. The unique artwork, […]
WaterWho?
April 17, 2015 - Alwyn Collinson
With the bicentenary anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo fast approaching, the National Army Museum conducted a survey investigating how much Brits really know about this monumental Battle… We’re all familiar with places named after the Battle of Waterloo, from pubs named after the Duke of Wellington to Waterloo Station in London, but do Brits […]
