Press reviews

The Daily Telegraph (UK) website reports on the erection of information boards concerning the clumps of trees planted commemorating the Battle of the Nile.   Click here for the full article (external link).

The Washington Times (USA) offers a book review of the recent publication Flotilla: The Patuxent Naval Campaign in the War of 1812.   Click here for the full article (external link).

First Empire n° 106 In this issue: – Denis Davidov – Partisan Leader, by Garry David Wills, p4– The Napoleonic Historical Society, p8– The Terrible Choice, by John Hussey, p12– The Mystery of Napoleon's Death Mask, by Peter M. Friedman, p23– Napoleonic Newsdesk, by Paul Chamberlain, 25– Under Review: the latest books reviewed, p26– Wellington's 'worse scrape', […]

The Austrian businessman from Loeben, Eginhard Aubell, wants to turn his Renaissance property, the Blaues Haus, into a “Napolium”. In this way a historical building will become a “living meeting place for Austrian and European history.” Whilst it might seem surprising to have a house dedicated to the glory of Napoleon Bonaparte near Graz, the […]

From www.ansa.it:“A lost fresco portraying Napoleon's triumph at the Battle of Austerlitz has been rediscovered in Venice. The fresco by Venetian artist Giovanni Carlo Bevilacqua (1775-1849) was one of a series of celebratory works commissioned in Venice after the French military genius's victory over the mighty combined forces of Austria and Russia in 1805…” Click here […]

The Guardian online (UK) recently reported on the launch of the World Digital Library.   Click here for the full article (external link).

The Financial Times website has recently posted a review of Susan Emanuel's translation of Maurice Lever's Beaumarchais: a biography.   Click here for the article (external link).

“The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution” by Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson has been published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It is available for purchase in PDF format though the National Bureau of Economic Research website.   Click here for the website and abstract (external link).

Following recent reports of Somali piracy, the BBC website takes a look at the 19th century response to such problems.   Click here for the article (external link).

The Australian (Australian online newspaper) has recently published a review of “The Satirical Eye: comedy and critique from Hogarth to Daumier”, an exhibition dedicated to the satirical prints and drawings from the period 1730 to 1870 which is currently taking place at the National Gallery of Victoria (International) in Melbourne, Australia.   Click here for […]