Images of Napoleon
Finding Napoleon Face to Face from Margaret Rodenberg on Vimeo. Margaret Rodenberg and her husband Bert have put together this collection of 70 or so images of Napoleon, including an American...
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July 1879, A Great Victorian Spectacle: The Funeral of the Prince Imperial
Prince Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte (1856-1879)Little is now remembered of Napoleon IV, but his premature death rocked Victorian England and led to a remarkable outpouring of public...
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Napoleon On Elba: "He is quite forgotten -- as much as if he never existed."
Napoleon Bonaparte leaving Elba, 26 February 1815. Joseph Beaume 1836 Almost 200 years ago, on 26th February 1815, Napoleon and his supporters left Elba, bound for France, where he was to regain the...
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Castlereagh and the Defeat of Napoleon
Viscount Castlereagh: "the prim smirking aspect of a haberdasher" - HazlittWith a reputation for being cold and calculating, Castlereagh was perhaps the most hated of all English politicians. A member...
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Anthony Burgess and Napoleon
According to Anthony Burgess's not always reliable autobiography, at his birth his father breathed beer on him and said He may be a new Napoleon.Not Wellington. The Catholic northwest, like Ireland,...
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Henry Bathurst: Who was he?
The Third Earl Bathurst (1762-1834), President of the Board of Trade & Secretary of State for War and the ColoniesAlong with the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool, and Castlereagh at the Foreign...
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From Elba to St Helena: A Timeline
Napoleon lands on Golfe-Juan_______________________________________________ 1815January13th Reports of a plan to remove Napoleon to St Helena began to appear in a number of British...
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Final Destination St. Helena
Sir John Barrow (1764 – 1848), Second Secretary to the Admiralty, credited with recommending St. Helena as the location for Napoleon's exile Elba: The Past is Prologue Napoleon's brief time on Elba was...
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Andrew Roberts: BBC TV Series on Napoleon
At least three of my friends have told me about the start of this series by Andrew Roberts (tonight 9.30 BST) which will also be available on Iplayer. So in case there is anybody who hasn't heard about...
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Exhibition in Manchester: Anthony Burgess and Napoleon
A return visit to the International Anthony Burgess Centre in Manchester to look at their exhibition about Burgess and Napoleon. Included in the exhibition are five prints by Jean Charles Pellerin...
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Guest Blog: Visit to the Isle d'Aix by Margaret Dyson
Napoleon 1st Clock in Napoleon Museum, l'île d'Aix Napoleon Who? Margaret Dyson reports on a visit to the Isle D’Aix where Napoleon last set foot on French soil On arriving on the Isle d'Aix (located...
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not only one, but two or three Buonapartes
Richard Whately(1787-1863),Professor of Political Economy at Oxford and Archbishop of Dublin Napoleon's career divided contemporaries as it still divides scholars.(1) Perhaps the first to recognise, or...
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Plymouth Remembers Napoleon's 1815 Visit
"Napoleon on HMS Bellerophon in Plymouth Sound" by Jules Girardet (1)"It was known that he always appeared on deck towards five o'clock. A short time before this hour, all the boats collected...
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Black Rock by Louise Hoole
The latest historical novel on Napoleon, by Louise Hoole The daughter of a former Governor of St. Helena, the Louise Hoole spent a number of her early years on the island, fell in love with it, and has...
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Napoleon - buried in a Suffolk Churchyard
Not many people can say that their parents are buried close to Napoleon! I first saw this grave at my mother's funeral in the same year that Napoleon, the Suffolk one, died. At the time I knew little...
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Went the Day Well? Witnessing Waterloo
Waterloo has long been a cornerstone of English/British nationalist mythology.(1) The dust had hardly settled on the field of battle and the bones buried before tourists started to arrive to witness...
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A Gift to the Emperor Napoleon by a British Admirer
Bust of Charles James Fox presented to Napoleon at the Elysee Palace on May 1st 1815I have previously blogged about the Honorable Anne Seymour Damer, like so many Whigs a great admirer of Napoleon. As...
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Flight No OR1502, Gatwick to St Helena: The Impossible Dream?
On Moday 2nd November at mid-day it will be possible to buy tickets for the first ever flight from Gatwick to St. Helena. The fares are cheaper than a combined flight via South Africa: £1299 economy...
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Let's Sing about Napoleon
Saint HelenaIt is a curious fact, ignored by historians, that Napoleon is probably the most popular historical figure in British folk music. I don't think there were any enduring songs celebrating...
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St Helena: How not to encourage tourism
Proposed new water tank outside Longwood HouseSt. Helena is pinning all its hopes on the expansion of tourism once the airport is up and running. The main tourist site on the island is Longwood House,...
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