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Marking the bicentenary of his death, the Napoléon exhibition explores the unlikely story of a complex character who was at once admired and controversial, victorious and conquered, heroic and tragic; a dramatic story that continues to fascinate our contemporaries to this day. It will highlight his political and cultural legacies that have profoundly impacted certain countries, chief […]

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”) […]

Waterloo Battlefield is one of the best preserved battlefields in the world. Since 1914, the site is protected and has therefore changed little since the fighting of 1815. All new construction is prohibited and, with the exception of the excavation of land due to the erection of the Lion’s Mound, the topography of the site […]