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Remembering Napoleon Bonaparte in ‘sumptuous’ print

Remembering Napoleon Bonaparte in ‘sumptuous’ print

by Talking Humanities | Aug 13, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Research & Resources

  On 15 August 1769, a child was born who would change the face of Europe. He was, of course, Napoleon Bonaparte. Two hundred and fifty years later Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, looks back at him through print....
Learning the right lessons from the Waterloo bicentenary

Learning the right lessons from the Waterloo bicentenary

by aseifert | Jun 30, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law

The noted Cambridge historian Herbert Butterfield once observed that, ‘history is all things to all men’. This axiom encapsulates perfectly the attitude of European governments towards the Waterloo bicentenary this month says Dr Jasper Heinzen. The official...

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