Press reviews

In this podcast, Jeff James, director of Operations and Services at The National Archives (UK), discusses the various stages of the criminal justice system during the second half of the eighteenth-century and first half of the nineteenth-century, and takes a look at the records that were left detailing the criminals, the crimes committed, the court […]

October 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, a popular and frequently consulted reference work on napoleon.org. In this article from The Guardian website (UK), Kathryn Hughes reviews Sheila Hardy's recent book on Eliza Acton, the woman behind many of Beeton's recipes.   Click here for the […]

Following the recent destruction of the Institute of Egypt, set up in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte, the online news websites Ahram Online and Egypt Independent (both Egyptian English-language sites) have reported on further developments to the story. Ahram Online writes that Beit Al-Sennari, the original site of the institute, has been selected as the temporary […]

Journal of the 1805 Club, edited by Anthony Cross and Huw Lewis-Jones   – Editorial, by Anthony Cross and Huw Lewis-Jones (pp. vi-ix)– The President's Dispatch, by Admiral Sir Jonathon Band (pp. x-xi)– The Chairman's Dispatch: 'Remeber Nelson', by Peter Warwick (pp. xii-xv)– “The Drunken Sailor”, by John Dacam (pp. 1-14)– “Help for Heroes: Towards […]

Issue n° 4 (November 2011) of Napoleonic Scholarship, the journal produced by the International Napoleonic Society (USA), has been published.   Click here for further information (external link).   Contents:– Messages of the President and the Editor-in-Chief (pp. 1-2)– List of Contributors (pp. 3-6)– “The Royal Navy and the French Wars: The Long-Term Background”, by […]

The December 2011 issue of French History features a book review of The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838, the proceedings of a conference held in Montreal in 2006. The collection is edited by Todd Porterfield, and the review is John Richard Moores of the University of York.   – Book review: The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838, […]

The Institute of Egypt, a research centre set up in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte, has been destroyed by fire during the clashes between protestors and military forces in Cairo. As well as the fire, which ripped through the building on Saturday, firefighting attempts also resulted in the building being flooded, further damaging what remained of […]

In this interview published on The Browser (UK), the renowned historian Lynn Hunt discusses the importance of the French Revolution and the factors behind what makes it such a fascinating yet complex episode in European history.   Click here for the full article (external link).

The BBC website (UK) reports on a recent call to have the portrait of Sir Thomas Picton removed from a crown court in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Picton, originally from Haverfordwest, was the most senior general to die at the Battle of Waterloo. Picton, whilst governor of Trinidad, was accused of torturing a young girl. The case […]

Taking a leaf out of the napoleon.org's 200 and 150 years ago, the BBC website (UK) – in an article discussing the British Library's recent digitisation of millions of pages of historical newspapers from British and Irish archives – investigates some of the more interesting and surprising headlines from 1811. In the news: riots, cuts and […]