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Francofonia
Marianne “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” and Napoleon, “C'est moi!”, responding to the Mona LisaAleksandr Sukov's Franconia provides an absorbing, meandering study of the history of the Louvre from its...
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St Helena Airport: Lord Ashcroft's Latest
Lord Ashcroft, Leading supporter of St. Helena Airport photographed on his recent visit One thing which any follower of Conservative politics knows is that Lord Ashcroft is not a great fan of David...
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St. Helena 1813: Two Governors, One Execution and the Mistreatment of Slaves
St. Helena in the time of Governor Beatson After too long a delay I have got back to my work on St. Helena's Judicial Records. My last entry was on St Helena in 1812, but now 1813 has been finished,...
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Patagonia: Napoleon Reaches Parts that Others Cannot Reach
Pizzeria in El Calafate, Patagonia Earlier this year I spent a wonderful month in Argentina. I was vaguely aware that Buenos Aires like New Orleans had been a haven for exiled Bonapartists after...
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The Keeper of the Empty Tomb - new book by Michel Dancoisne-Martineau
Michel Dancoisne-Martineau has just produced another book. This time an account of his life since he left France for St.Helena at the age of 18. It is just over a year since Michel told us that he had...
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St Helena 1814-1816
The St Helena Judicial Records 1808 My transcription of the years 1808-1816 from the St Helena Judicial Records is now complete. The years 1814-816 revealed some of the most interesting cases of the...
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Imperial Exile: The Napoleon Diaries
Imperial Exile by James Hartley, now published on KindleEverybody around him at Longwood wrote their accounts of Napoleon's exile, but until now we have not heard from the man himself! Only joking!...
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1815: Napoleon's Abolition of the Slave Trade
Pro-Napoleon propaganda produced by William Hone in 1815 William Hone(1780-1842) was a satirist, a writer and a bookseller whom the authorities tried to silence in the years after Waterloo. His...
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Napoleon’s Representative on Earth : "I am the keeper of the empty tomb"
To the Saints, Michel Dancoisne-Martineau, the Honorary French Consul and Curator of the French Properties on St. Helena, is simply “THE Frenchman”, but to many tourists he is, along with Jonathan the...
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Manchester 1821: a toast to the Immortal Memory of Napoleon Bonaparte
The Plaque Commemorating PeterlooThe Smithfield meeting in July 1819 passed a resolution opposing the British Government's imprisonment of Napoleon on St. Helena. Although Henry Hunt was the main...
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Henry Hunt and Napoleon: "the first of men, the most wonderful man that ever...
Henry Hunt, radical leader (1773-1835)Henry Hunt, or "Orator" Hunt as he was known, was the most famous and the most feared of the radical campaigners for universal suffrage in the years after...
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Samuel Bamford: Lancashire Radical and Poet
Samuel Bamford (1788-1872) Samuel Bamford was one of the leading Manchester radicals who was arrested and gaoled after Peterloo. After his release Bamford retreated from radical politics, and in 1848...
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Stockport 1819: Sandy Brow will be More Famous than Waterloo
Cartoon depicting a chained Rev. Harrison of Stockport holding the red Cap of Liberty In the years leading up to Peterloo, Stockport became a major centre of radicalism. The main area of of popular...
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English Honour and the Captivity of Napoleon
An English Gentleman England in the Regency period was a highly ordered society. Gentlemanly conduct was the ideal to which all in power aspired. Half a century earlier Dr Johnson had defined being a...
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Forthcoming Talk
Opening theme for my planned talk In 2015 I gave a talk in London to the Friends of St Helena on Napoleon and the British Opposition. I am now preparing for a talk in Stockport, and intend to...
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Napoleon and British Song 1797-1822 - by Oskar Cox Jensen
Napoleon and British Song 1797-1822This is an important and fascinating book which is packed with new insights into popular culture during the wars against France after 1797. Early in the book Jensen...
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Teutonic Hall - an update
Teutonic Hall, formerly Mason's Stock HouseThe country houses of St Helena are a very important part of the island's heritage. One of those that has been recognised to be in great danger for a number...
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This Dark Business
John Tartelin, the author of The Real Napoleon, The Untold Story, has drawn my attention to a new book by Tim Clayton which describes the secret attempts of the British Government to remove Napoleon...
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Sir Robert Wilson and Napoleon - the man who changed his mind
Sir Robert Wilson was one of the most extraordinary men of his times or any times. A tall striking looking man, very well connected, a distinguished soldier and diplomat, he was on friendly terms with...
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St Helena 1815: The East India Company, Slavery and Religion
St Helena halfpenny bearing crest of the East India Company The East India Company and St. Helena's leading families were naturally apprehensive about the impact the detention of Napoleon would have on...
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