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Description: The Wellington Congress 2019 focuses on all aspects of the career of the first Duke of Wellington, as well as the wider context in Britain, Ireland, the Empire and Continental Europe, between 1780 and the mid-nineteenth century. It will feature keynote speeches from Professor Charles Esdaile, Professor Andrew Lambert, Dr Alicia Laspra and Dr […]

Georgia State University will be hosting the annual conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 in Atlanta (USA) at the Ritz-Carlton Downtown. This interdisciplinary conference encourages scholars to present work on any topic related to the period 1750-1850 in any geographical location. Although historians of the Atlantic World are always a large contingent, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The “Amici della biblioteca”, the local culture society in Cassano delle Murge (Puglia, Italy), and their president Angela Diceglie, together with the Altamura “Club Federiciano”, led by president Bianca Tragni, are to organise a travelling exhibition dedicated to the King of Naples called: “Il mantello di Gioacchino Murat” (The Mantle of Joachin Murat). The inauguration […]

Desenzano del Garda (UD), Saturday 7 October 2017 Conference of Historical Studies “Was it true glory? The Napoleonic Heritage in the Risorgimento” Organized by the Cultural Association Faro Tricolore with the patronage of the Municipality of Desenzano del Garda and other cultural associations such as the Souvenir Napoléonien. The conference will be held at the […]

Under the high patronage of His Excellency the Ambassador of Mexico to France, Juan Manuel Gómez-Robledo, the Mexican Embassy in France is organizing (in collaboration with the Historical Defence Service, the Souvenir Napoléonien and the Fondation Napoléon) a conference on the theme “The French intervention in Mexico (1862-1867): An unexpected conflict, the beginning of a friendship” on 5 […]