Press reviews

The Institute of Historical Research (UK) this week offers up a book review by Yuriko Akiyama from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. The book in question is Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700-1900, edited by David Boyd Hancock and Sally Archer.   Click here for the review (external link).

We here at the Fondation Napoléon have been keeping a very close eye on the key debate that has been raging in the UK for a while now: namely, that of the role of History in children's education today. The September 2010 issue of History Today (UK)features an editorial from Paul Lay in which he […]

The latest issue of the electronic Napoleonic Historical Society Newsletter (USA) is now available to its members. In the issue: Napoleonic fashion exhibition, p. 12010 Annual Conference details, p. 1Reenactment at Waterloo, p. 5Celebrate Napoleon's birthday!, p. 9Upcoming events, p. 9“Objects of Desire”, p. 10Membership renewal, p. 12 Click here for further details (external link).

The 28 August – 3 September issue of The Economist features a book review of The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce's Circle Transformed Britain, by Stephen Tomkins.   Click here for further information (external link).

Issue n° 3 (May 2010) of Napoleonic Scholarship, the journal produced by the International Napoleonic Society (USA), has been published.   Click here for further information (external link).   Contents:   Grouchy and the Waterloo Campaign, by John G. Gallaher, pp. 7-13La Vraie Madame Sans-Gêne: Women Soldiers in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Armies, 1792-1815, […]

First Empire n° 114   In this issue:   “D'Erlon's 1e Corps Attack at Waterloo 1815-2010”, by Duncan Miles, p4“Dumouriez's Amazons”, by James Gaite, p9Napoleonic Newsdesk, by Paul Chamberlain, p27“The First Publication of 'The Frasnes Letter' – And Its Aftermath”, by John Hussey, p29Under Review, by Paul Chamberlain, p33“God Bless Ireland and Daragh O'Malley”, by […]

The Spectator website (UK) features a review of Holger Hoock's new book, Empires of the Imagination.   Click here for the article (external link).

The Institute of Historical Research (UK) this month offers up two book reviews, by Jacob Glicklich, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Emma Griffin, from the University of East Anglia. The books in question are, respectively, Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850, by Holger Hoock, and The British […]

The website to the UK government's Foreign & Commonwealth Office features a new online exhibition entitled “The Duel for Europe 1800-1830” which highlights the period of war between Britain and France and features contemporary images, including maps, paintings and political caricatures.   Click here for the interactive exhibition (external link).

The UK Press Assocation and The Independent (UK) report on the UK government's plans to go ahead with the airport project for St Helena. The Labour government originally pledged to construct an airport in 2005 before postponing the project, citing economic issues. International Development Secretary for the Conservative-Liberal Democrats coalition government Andrew Mitchell recently announced however that […]