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from 05/05/2021 to 09/05/2021CommemorationLIVE Commemorations of Napoleon’s Death on St Helena
On 5, 6 and 9 May, wherever you are around the world, watch online the Bicentenary ceremonies. ► FOLLOW THE CEREMONIES LIVE Programme: (Times are given in GMT i.e. 1 hour behind London and 4 hours ahead of New York) – 5 May 2021: From 8am-4pm GMT, Laying of the personalised wreaths on the tomb* From 5pm GMT: Longwood House Gardens. Funeral march […]
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from 18/02/2021 to 31/12/2021Talk[Online event] The British Witnesses to Napoleon | Napoleon 200
The death of Napoleon in far off St Helena in May 1821 brought to a crescendo twenty-five years of English-language publishing on the Emperor. Thousands of pages, including the Emperor’s will, Barry O’Meara’s Napoleon in Exile, and Emmanuel de Las Cases’ “Journal of Private Life and Conversations of Napoleon” (known in French as the “Memorial”) […]