Press reviews

The Institute for Historical Research (UK) features a review of William Lubenow's Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh.   Click here for the book review (external link).

The Guardian website (UK) features an article on the exhibition “Wives and Sweethearts” which recently opened at the National Army Museum in London.   Click here for the article (external link).

One of the most symbolic heritage items relating to the Battle of Waterloo has been stolen! Despite its relative size (two metres tall and nearly two metres wide), considerable weight, and the numerous security measures in place around the farm in which it is kept, the “Hougoumont Christ” has disappeared, removed, by well-prepared individuals, from the chapel […]

The Los Angeles Times online (US) features a review of Peter Brooks' novel, The Emperor's Body.   Click here for the review (external link).

The Deutsche Welle website (Germany) features a review of the “Orientalism in Europe: from Delacroix to Kandinsky” exhibition, which, having been on display in Belgium last year, is currently taking place at the Kuntshalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich, Germany.   Click here for the review (external link).

Napoleon and his legend still remain important cultural reference points to this day. The proof? A new advert produced for the fast-food chain McDonalds sees the classic image of the French emperor, with his right hand tucked into his jacket, turned on its head.   Click here for the advert (external link in French).

Operation St Helena, the campaign organised by the Fondation Napoléon and the Souvenir Napoléonien to restore Napoleon I's residence on the island, is this week featured in the About.com European History blog, written by Robert Wilde.   Click here for the blog entry (external link).

The BA International School of Information Science (ISIS) and the Biblioteca Alexandrina have published online a digital version of the Description de l'Egypte, which is freely accessible to internet visitors.   Click here for the site (external link).

The February issue of History Today features, as part of its “Months Past” section, a short article on the Regency period in Georgian Britain. Also in this month's issue are two book reviews, of Timothy H. Parsons' The Rule Of Empires” and Ronald Hyam's Understanding the British Empire and of Amanda Foreman's A World On […]

The National Army Museum (UK) website features an interactive competition to vote for “Britain's Greatest General”. Currently in the running for this prestigious prize are the Duke of Wellington and John Moore, who was killed in a rearguard battle as the British army embarked from Corunna, on the Spanish coast.   Click here to vote […]