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The University of Southampton will be holding its Seventh Wellington Congress 12-14 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Professor Andrew Lambert, Professor Charles Esdaile, Dr Alicia Laspra and Dr Richard Gaunt. Proposals are invited for papers on all aspects of the career of the first Duke of Wellington, as well as the wider context in […]

Events will take place over three days, with a preliminary schedule as follows: Friday: Meeting of Directors Registration Opens Dinner with a Speaker Saturday: Morning Talks Afternoon Talks Cocktails Annual Gala with Speaker Sunday: Tour of Yorktown   Highlights will include talks by Martin and Cristina Lancaster, collectors of period clothes amongst other items, and […]

There will be four days of papers and three days of tours, including Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 July. The main topics are: the King of Rome, the year 1809, The (First) Congress of Vienna and Politics, Military Operations, Soldiers of War, Italy and Beyond, Political Consequences, Logistics and Research, Full programme here. For more information, […]

Académie Symphonique de Paris Les Voix Impériales, Choir and Soloists Peter Hicks, Director Sara Kim, organist AU PROGRAMME Méhul, Le chant du retour pour la Grande Armée  Dalayrac/Boys, Veillons au salut de l’Empire  Catel, Chant triomphal pour la paix et l’anniversaire du Sacre  Grétry, Où peut-on être mieux qu’au sein de sa famille, extr. de […]

SUNDAY 29 APRIL  9.30AM TO 5PM Download the flyer. Helion and Company are proud to announce the 2018 From Reason to Revolution conference, generously supported by the Society for Army Historical Research. The theme of this inaugural conference is Command and Leadership, and we have a wide range of speakers covering topics, events and personalities […]

To accompany the exhibition “Napoleon the Strategist” (see above), the Musée de l’Armée in Paris has organised a cycle of 14 concerts, from 5 April, designed to bring to life the atmosphere of battles and other sounds from the Napoleonic campaigns, with music composed during the Napoleonic period as well as later works that refer to it. From […]

A reduction is available to readers of napoleon.org and the Foundation Napoléon Facebook pages. Category 1 –  26€ instead of 30€ Category 2 – 16€ instead of 20€ Take advantage of these rates by using the code CENT04 on the Museum’s Online Ticket page!

3 concerts “Music at the Museum” Sunday 18 March 2018, 4pm > “Viennese Spring” Music by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert Marnuela Matis, violin – Laura Manca, cello – Maria Grazia Petrali, fortepiano Sunday 15 April 2018 4pm > “Reading companions” Musical meetings at the Vienna First School Music by Vanhal, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven Mario Lacchini, flute […]

Full programme now available here (subject to change). The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 (CRE) provides a venue for the presentation of original research on the history of Europe, the Atlantic World and beyond. We welcome proposals from allied disciplines and comparative studies; in short, we offer a platform for research into the revolutionary era broadly […]

Presentation and Programme in French http://blog.apahau.org/colloque-la-culture-de-larchitecture-a-travers-les-arts-visuels-dans-la-france-du-xixe-siecle-paris-15-decembre-2017/ Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Auditorium, level -2 Free admission, subject to availability, upon prior registration. Simultaneous translation from French->English, English->French Before the 1970s, the architecture of the nineteenth century was largely neglected. Since then, many studies have shed light upon this subject through biographical, institutional, stylistic or typological approaches. Today […]