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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 […]
LE VIZIR – NAPOLEON’S HORSE
July 5, 2016 - The Chairman
This horse has recently hit the news, (See Daily Telegraph of 4 July). It is the stuffed body of Le Vizir which lay in the cellars of The Louvre for many a year. It has recently been re found and will be restored and placed in the Les Invalides to be seen by all. The […]
World Book Day 2016: Ten Waterloo novels
March 3, 2016 - Richard Moss
The team at Waterloo200 have chosen their favourite Waterloo novels and works of fiction for World Book Day 2016. Our lively list of historical tales was selected by Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, Carole Divall and Michael Crumplin. Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe’s Waterloo, 1990, Collins, London The eponymous hero settles some old scores with love rivals and […]
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 […]
Wellington’s Men Remembered: Volume 2 – M to Z
December 17, 2015 - Carole Divall
Janet and David Bromley Published by Praetorian Press, an imprint of Pen and Sword £60 ISBN 978 1 84884 750 7 This is Volume two of an astonishing register of graves and memorials to those British and King’s German Legion men who fought with the great Duke from Portugal through Spain to Waterloo. Some […]
Fine Waterloo Watercolours acquired by the British Museum
November 9, 2015 - The Chairman
News of Waterloo appeared in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday. The Thomas Stoney watercolours which were recently displayed (on loan from a private collection) in the Bonaparte and The British exhibition in the British Museum have been acquired by the Museum. These watercolours of which there are 17 were painted only a few days after the […]
Pyrenees Excursion
October 12, 2015 - The Chairman
Serjeant Gibson and I have been off the air for a while. The main reason has been that we have been visiting the battlefields of the Peninsular War on the back of horses. We were looking in particular at the 1813 campaign when Marshal Soult, grandly titled the Duke of Dalmatia, counter attacked towards Pamplona. […]
