18th-19th Century History Links

http://www.historytoday.com/jeremy-black/legacy-1815

The Legacy of 1815 | History Today All at sea: 'The Last Leap of a Great Man' (Napoleon). French engraving, early 19th century. Waterloo holds our attention, but there were other episodes in British military history that year which were also important in framing the ‘long 19th century’. The most obvious was the defeat in January of…

http://blog.oup.com/2014/08/napoleon-downfall/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=oupacademic&utm_campaign=oupblog

Did Napoleon cause his own downfall? | OUPblog On 9 April 1813, only four months after his disastrous retreat from Moscow, Napoleon received the Austrian ambassador, Prince Schwarzenberg, at the Tuileries palace in Paris. It was a critical juncture. In the snows of Russia, Napoleon had just lost the greatest army he had ever assembled – of his i…

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118058/charles-dickens-died-june-9-edwin-drood-mystery-pictures-london

This Is What Dickensian London Really Looked Like Images of the squalor and sadness of Victorian life.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116445/battle-waterloo-revisited

What Really Happened at the Battle of Waterloo How many biscuits did it take to beat Napoleon? 83,428.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/79396/charles-beard-puritans

Happy Thanksgiving! Now read this 93-year-old hit piece against the pilgrims "We Shouldn't Be Grateful to the Pilgrims," by Charles Beard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHmpu7JVws

Lecture 9, Find the Hero: Ary Scheffer's The Retreat of Napoleon's Army from Russia in 1812 (1826) The painter of this little-known Romantic work, a new acquisition by the Gallery, shows the remnants of the Grande Armée in the greatest defeat in military h...

Georgian London:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/06/best-books-18th-century-london-maria-mccann

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/06/best-books-18th-century-london-maria-mccann

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/the-wicked-war-in-the-west/?_r=0

The Wicked War in the West The Civil War west of the Mississippi is forgotten, but its brutality paved the way for the scorched-earth destruction of the conflict’s final years.

Wrong century but I'm not starting a new page:.
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1308915.ece

Broken by the wheel – the diary of an executioner | TLS B y the time he died at the age of eighty in 1634, Master Frantz Schmidt was a respected citizen of Nuremberg, well off, living with his family in a large house, and in possession of an official certificate from the Emperor confirming his honourable status. His children had married respectably enoug...

http://blog.oup.com/2013/09/french-revolution-reign-of-terror/

The Reign of Terror - OUPblog By William Doyle Two hundred and twenty years ago this week, 5 September 1793, saw the official beginning of the Terror in the French Revolution. Ever since that time, it is very largely what the French Revolution has been remembered for. When people think about it, they picture the guillotine in th...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22909590?ocid=socialflow_facebook_newsmagazine

How Napoleon's semaphore telegraph changed the world Napoleonic semaphore was the world's first telegraph network, carrying messages across 18th Century France faster than ever before. Now a group of enthusiastic amateurs are reviving the ingenious system.