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The town of La Roche-sur-Yon (France) is organising an exhibition entitled “The Emperor in private: Napoleon I – husband, father, lover” for which the Fondation Napoléon is lending ten objects from its collection. On the occasion of this exhibition at the Museum of that town, a catalogue will also be published with the support of […]

Programme (Palazzo Reale Naples): 4 pm: A presentation of the book A passo di carica, Murat, re di Napoli, ed. Luigi Mascilli Migliorini A presentation of the book Murat, Naples, Europe by Nicoletta Marini of Armenia Three brief interventions: Thierry Lentz, Renata De Lorenzo, Renata Lattuada Presentation of the MurApp smartphone application, Murat’s Naples, with […]

Programme : Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène [Napoleon on St Helena] (Thierry Lentz). Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène : témoignage et manifeste politique [The Mémorial of St Helena: testimony and political manifesto] (Chantal Prévot) Le grand-maréchal Bertrand et ses Mémoires [Grand Marshal Bertrand and his Memoirs] (François Houdecek) Dans l’intimité de Napoléon : les témoignages d’Ali et de Marchand [Napoleon in […]

This is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Roger Fenton’s pioneering photographs of the Crimean War, taken in 1855. Fenton was already an accomplished and respected photographer when he was sent by the publishers Agnew’s to photograph a war that pitched Britain, France and Turkey as allies against Russia.  Arriving several months after the […]

 Monday 20th August at 9.30 pm: “Elisa a Palazzo: from rigour to splendour”, Velia Gini Bartoli and Simonetta Giurlani Pardini. The Palazzo Ducale has been the centre of the political power of the city for centuries, but only with Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi does it assume the appearance it has today, and only with her profound and […]

Programme 3 pm – Opening by Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, President of the Fondation Napoléon, and President of the Committee for the edition of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon 3.10 pm – Introduction by Professor Jean Tulard, member of the Institute, Vice-President of the Committee for the Edition of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon 3.30 […]

The conference aims at examining the relation between religion and politics from the French Revolution to the first half of the nineteenth century, by highlighting two historical phenomena: the sacralisation of politics and the politicisation of religion. By considering the opposition, the combination and the overlapping between the sacred and the politics, and thanks to […]

Programme (see here for full details of talks): 10.00am Registration 10.30am – 11.30am Brexit at Waterloo / John Morewood 11.30am – 11.45am Break 11.45am – 12.45pm Frozen in Time / Paul F. Brunyee 12.45pm – 1.00pm View the Siborne model / War Gallery 1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch Break 2.00pm – 3.00pm Thank God we have the Navy / Carole Divall 3.00pm […]

Conversazioni Napoleoniche (Napoleonic Talks) 2017 (in Italian)   Free entrance Programme: Monday 21 August, Role of Elisa Bonaparte Baciochi as precursor in terms of health and the use of society to establish consensus, by Velia Gini Bartoli and Simonetta Pardini Tuesday 22 August, Napoleon’s Hat, an exercise in image manipulation?, by Peter Hicks Wednesday 23 […]

Tuesday Lunchtime Talks – 12.30 – 1pm, booking not required 8 August Nelson in the Norfolk Archives – Frank Meeres, Norfolk Record Office. 22 August: Restoration of the Nelson Monument in Great Yarmouth – Michael Knights, former Historic Buildings Officer. 29 August: Nelson’s Shadow: Taking Norfolk’s Mariners out of Lord Nelson’s Mighty Shadow – Mark […]