Publications

  From the publishers: “Waterloo has, perhaps, a greater claim to have left its mark on Europe than any single battle before it, yet, even after two hundred years, there is confusion about how the battle ended. Readers will believe they know perfectly well how Wellington gave the order to the men of the First Foot Guards […]

  From the publishers: “Writing to his mother the day after the fighting, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars described ‘a victory so splendid & important that you may search the annals of history in vain for its parallel'. Little wonder, for Waterloo was widely recognised – even in its immediate wake – as one of […]

  From the publishers: “The Battle of Quatre Bras was critical to the outcome of the Waterloo campaign – to the victory of the allied armies of Wellington and Blücher, the defeat of the French and the fall of Napoleon. But it has been overshadowed by the two larger-scale engagements at Ligny and at Waterloo itself. And […]

  From the publishers:  “…Two centuries ago, Europe emerged from one of the greatest crises in its history. In September 1814, the rulers of Europe and their ministers descended upon Vienna to reconstruct Europe after two decades of revolution and war, with the major decisions made by the statesmen of the great powers – Castlereagh, Metternich, […]

  From the publishers:  “… Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as “freedom's swift-winged angels.” In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking […]

From the publishers:  “…We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars – but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers […]

Volume 10 of the Correspondance Générale de Napoléon Bonaparte covers what Thiers called “a quiet year” in the history of the Empire, the period from March 1810 to March 1811. Its editors, Annie Jourdan, professor at the University of Amsterdam, and Michel Roucaud, of the Service Historique de la Défense, have shone their spotlight on […]

  From the publishers:  “…In Education, Travel and the 'Civilisation' of the Victorian Working Classes, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprentices and clerks, who travelled abroad as participants in this reform movement, focusing particularly on the ways in which four overlapping institutions during the Victorian era […]

  From the publishers:  “…Wellington Portrayed is a new, extended and up-to-date colour version of The Iconography of the 1st Duke of Wellington published in 1935: the bible for anyone wanting to know about a painting or sculpture of the 1st Duke. Since the 1930s, many new images have been found and a considerable amount of […]

  From the publishers:  “…Isabelle, a young French maid, follows her notorious mistress to the island of St. Helena after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. She discovers quickly that a “beast” roams this remote island, and people are vanishing or found drained of blood. She falls in love with Saint-Denis, Napoleon's valet, but this enigmatic young man […]