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ArticleSummer Reading List 2018Looking for something Napoleonic to pop into your suitcase this summer? Take your pick from the latest books below or check out last year’s list or indeed our 2017 Christmas bag – there’s bound to be something to suit your mood. -
ArticleBullet Point #13 – Why did Napoleon decide to centralise French administration?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, June 2018, translation PH) -
from 28/09/2018 to 30/09/2018ConferenceNapoleonic Historical Society 2018 Conference (Williamsburg)Events will take place over three days, with a preliminary schedule as follows: Friday: Meeting of Directors Registration Opens Dinner with a Speaker Saturday: Morning Talks Afternoon Talks Cocktails Annual Gala with Speaker Sunday: Tour of Yorktown Highlights will include talks by Martin and Cristina Lancaster, collectors of period clothes amongst other items, and […]
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from 09/07/2018 to 15/07/2018ConferenceInternational Napoleonic Society 2018 Conference (Vienna)An official schedule has yet to be published, but there will be four days of papers and three days of tours, including Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 July. It is anticipated that papers will concentrate on the relationship between France and Austria, as well as the (first) Congress of Vienna, but of course other papers […]
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from 16/06/2018 to 12/11/2018ExhibitionNapoleon in Caricature, a battle of imageryNapoleon was one of the first actors in the construction of his legend, very aware of the role of the image. He inspired and surrounded himself with the greatest artists of his time, giving rise to a rich official iconography. At the same time, the peddlers widely spread the image of the man in the […]
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from 16/06/2018 to 12/11/2018ExhibitionNapoleon and the imperial Palace, BoulogneThe Hôtel Désandrouin, a building inseparable from the Napoleonic presence in Boulogne, the headquarters of the Côtes de l’Océan staff and the occasional residence of Napoleon Bonaparte (later Napoleon I), also known as the Imperial Palace, will host an exhibition devoted to the Boulogne Camp, the events associated with it and the Emperor’s stays there. […]
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from 23/06/2018 to 24/06/2018Family, Re-enactmentA historical weekend at the Battlefield of WaterlooFrom Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 June 2018. Three years after the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, meet the French and allied re-enactors in a family-friendly atmosphere. Join the celebrations on June 23-24, 2018. A fascinating historical weekend will gather together numerous activities and entertainment at each of the sites of the battle: bivouacs, the first […]
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PublicationCourage, Blood and Luck: Poems of Waterloo“At about 11:30 on a Sunday morning in 1815, a few shots rang out as the curtain-raiser to one of Europe’s most titanic military clashes. By late afternoon, at the close of the Battle of Waterloo, nearly 40,000 men lay dead or wounded. Until that day, the army of Napoleon Bonaparte had seemed almost invincible. Indeed, […]
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PublicationAli Pasha, Lion of Ioannina, The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon“At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Ioannina and the Balkan Napoleon, into the consciousness of Western rulers and the general public? […]
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PublicationFrom Corunna to Waterloo with the Hussars, 1808-1815“In this book, historian John Mollo describes the conception, gestation, birth and adolescence of the first British Regiments of Hussars – the byproducts of the Prince Regent’s passion for military finery and dandyism – leading on to their full maturity in the grim realities of war in the Iberian Peninsula between 1808 and 1814, first […]