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The Bicentenary: An Update
Napoleon's Grave, St Helena, May 2021 After years of preparation, the disruption of the pandemic and the debate in France over Napoleon's legacy, the ceremonies on St Helena have now passed. In my...
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Queen Victoria, Count Walewski and a Famous Painting
Napoleon at Fontainebleau, 31 March 1814 Paul DelarocheThere appear to be a number of versions of Delaroche's painting of Napoleon's first abdication. One has been in the Musée de l'Armée in Paris...
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Queen Victoria and the Empress Eugénie
Queen Victoria's portrait of Eugénie, May 1855 By the last decades of the nineteenth century the Bonaparte family had gained legitimacy among Europe's rulers. No longer identified with opposition to...
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Sir Hudson Lowe and Antonomasia - A Review
Sir Hudson Lowe, Victime of St Helena by Michel Dancoisne-Martineau This book, one of a series of 12, is only available from the Longwood House souvenir shop on the island of St Helena. It contains...
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The Man on the Rock - Kenneth Griffith (1975)
On our recent visit to St Helena we were privileged to be able to watch this powerful performance by Kenneth Griffith on a large screen. It first appeared in 1975, but has long since been forgotten,...
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Elba 1814: Napoleon meets a man from Bungay.
John Barber Scott (1792-1862) John Barber Scott was the much travelled son of a wealthy merchant from Bungay in Suffolk. His diaries, provide a fascinating glimpse of life in the Waveney valley in the...
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Napoleon chez the Balcombes- A Review
Volume 3 of Michel Dancoisne-Martineau's series, Napoleon and St Helena, the end of an emperor.This volume provides a very comprehensive account of Napoleon's debarquement from the "Northumberland",...
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The Bulk Fuel Installation &"The Saint"
"The Saint" 12 January 2022 I rarely post about modern St Helena, but a recent edition of a new publication, The Saint reminded me of a story I came across when I visited a year ago. To put it simply,...
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Kensal Green Cemetery, St Helena and Napoleon
Kensal Green Cemetery, founded in 1833, is the oldest and apparently the most prestigious private cemetery in Britain. The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery have just released an article by Henry...
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Michael Broers on the Ridley Scott film
Having read so many bad reviews I decided not to bother with Ridley Scott's film, but I may be more interested in the four hour directors cut not yet released.The film apparently focused very much on...
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Napoleon Symphony: "Can Burgess write on Napoleon? Of Corsican." (1)
Burgess's Novel published in 1974, based on the script he wrote for Kubrick Last year's Ridley Scott film on Napoleon inevitably triggered memories of Kubrick's ill-fated epic, abandoned half a century...
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