Press reviews

The BBC website (UK) reports on a forthcoming auction which includes a miniature portrait of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who was third in command of the fleet which set fire to a number of public buildings in Washington, including the White House, and who also served as Commander-in-Chief on St. Helena, where he oversaw Napoleon Bonaparte's […]

The Institute of Historical Research (UK) this week offers up a book review by Carmen Mangion from Birkbeck, University of London. The book in question is Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England, 1830-85 by Carol Engelhardt Herringer.   Click here for the review (external link).

The Institute of Historical Research (UK) this week offers up a book review by Jacqueline Hill from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. The book in question is The Making of British Unionism, 1740-1848: Politics, Government and the Anglo-Irish Constitutional Relationship by Douglas Kanter.   Click here for the review (external link).

In the BBC Radio 4 series “In Our Time”, Melvyn Bragg and his guests, Faisal Devji, Shruti Kapila and Chandrika Kaul, recently discussed the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The programme can still be heard on the BBC website.   Click here for the episode page and link to stream the show (external link).

Articles:“Living the Enlightenment in an age of revolution: Freemasonry in Bordeaux (1788-1794)”, by Kenneth Loiselle, p. 60   Book reviews:Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech by Charles Walton, reviewed by Mette Harder, p. 113   Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris by […]

First Empire n° 111   In this issue:   – “A Token of Homage” – The 1814 Naarden Siege, by Kendall L. Witt, p4– Ney's Defection in 1815: What made him act the way he did?, by Patrick E. Wilson, p8– Napoleon the Peacemaker, introduction and translation by John McErlean, p13– Napoleon & Poland, by […]

As part of the refurbishment and renovation project of the Musée de l'Armée, the French arts magazine, Connaissance des Arts (France), has released a special issue which allows the reader to rediscover Napoleon Bonaparte “through the prism” of the Musée de l'Armée's refurbished collections. The issue is available in English for 8 € or $11.05. […]

AFP reports on the discovery of what is claimed to be clippings of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair, taken from the French Emperor when he was on his deathbed in St Helena. The clippings were discovered in the Town Hall in Sydney (Australia) during a clean out of the building's vaults.   Click here for the full article […]

CNET website (US) and PC Zone online (UK) feature reviews of Napoleon: Total War, which has just been released by The Creative Assembly/Sega. Click here and here for the full articles (external links).

The Salisbury Post (USA) reports on an upcoming play which melds history and fiction, presenting the intriguing case of Salisbury local, Peter Stewart Ney, who claimed on his deathbed to be Maréchal Ney, one of Napoleon's generals. His tombstone even reads “In memory of Peter Stuart Ney/ A native of France and soldier of the […]