18th-19th Century History Links

30/01/2019

28/02/2015

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

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…

18/08/2014

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

10/06/2014

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

Images of the squalor and sadness of Victorian life.

04/02/2014

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

How many biscuits did it take to beat Napoleon? 83,428.

27/11/2013

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

"We Shouldn't Be Grateful to the Pilgrims," by Charles Beard

19/11/2013

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

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...

07/11/2013

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

29/10/2013

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

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.

07/09/2013

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

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...

07/09/2013

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

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...

17/06/2013

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

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.