Bonaparte and the British: talks at the British Museum

To coïncide with the exhibition Bonaparte and the British, the British Museum is organising a series of talks and lectures.

Tuesday 24 March,
13.15–14.00, Room 90, free
A gallery talk by Sheila O'Connell
British admirers of Napoleon

Friday 27 March
13.15–14.00, Room 47, free
Gallery talk by Hilary Williams, British Museum.
Decorative arts in the time of Napoleon and Wellington

the following 2 lectures must be booked on 0207 323 8181 tickets@britishmuseum.org
 
Thursday 30 April,13.30–14.30
BP Lecture Theatre, free 
lecture by Lady Jane Wellesley: Wellington and the French: a family view
 
The first Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, never met his great military rival Napoleon Bonaparte, but his relationship with France began when, as a 16-year-old, he enrolled at the French Royal Academy of Equitation in Anger.
 
Friday 19 June 2015 , 18.30-19.30
BP Lecture Theatre
£5, Members/concessions £2
lecture by Andrew Roberts 'Napoleon the Great'
 
Award-winning historian and writer, Andrew Roberts, talks on Napoleon: military genius, astute leader of men, and one of the world's greatest soldier-statesmen. Roberts' Napoleon the Great is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. Roberts shares some of his research for the book that took him to fifty-three of Napoleon's sixty battle sites and even included the long boat trip to St. Helena, the site of Napoleon's final exile and death.
 
British Museum, Gt Russell St, LONDON WC1B 3DG