Press reviews

As part of preparations for the upcoming Russian presidential elections, the Russian news network RT features an article on test elections which took place in Moscow and which saw participants asked to vote for a military leader. The choice included Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Peter the Great, Winston Churchill and Genghis Khan. The eventual winner […]

Reuters Africa reports that at a recent campaign rally in the build-up to the forthcoming presidential elections in Russia, Vladimir Putin evoked the campaign of 1812 and the Russian victory over the Grande Armée.   Click here for the article (external link).

You can now listen to a report on the issue of “Britishness” by Dr John Bew, whose recent biography of Viscount Castlereagh featured as napoleon.org's book of the month for March 2012. The report, entitled “Analysis: Britishness”, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Click here for the programme (external link).

The History Today issue for January 2012 features an article by Roger Rideout on the history of the Zoological Society of London, launched in 1826.   – “'Handsome Gifts' to a Young Society”, by Roger Rideout (pp. 37-43) (external link)    

The Reviews in History website (UK) features a review of the recent publication, On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800-1945, edited by Athony Best and John Fisher. The site also features the authors' response to the review.   Click here for the review and here for the authors' response (external links).

Xavier Lacombe has blogged about the theme park here (external link). Via this page you can also listen to NPR's radio interview with the Fondation Napoléon's international affairs manager, Peter Hicks.

The Telegraph website (Australia) reports on the planned sale of a Dutch man's collection of fine liquors and other alcohols. The collection, with an estimated value of about eight million Australian dollars (6.5 million Euros or just under £5.5 million), includes a 1795 bottle of Brugerolle Cognac which is believed to have accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte on […]

The Guardian website has published a number of additional details relating to the the plans to build a history-themed cultural attraction in Montereau, on the outskirts of Paris. Click here for the full article (external link).

Agnès Poirier's recent op-ed piece in The Guardian (UK) takes a look at the plans to build a theme park to Napoleonic history, and introduces France's at times complicated relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte. Click here for the article (external link).

The Reviews in History website (UK) features a review of Jules Stewart's recently-published biography on Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The review is written by John R. Davies of Kingston University.   Click here for the review (external link).