Reflections on A Journey to St Helena
Reflections on St Helena, Napoleon's exile, and English attitudes towards Napoleon.
Friday, 20 February 2026
Journey's End: -
Le dernier Napoléon
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"This last Napoleon is multifaceted. He is the one we like to imagine". When I first heard of the title I thought...
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Wednesday, 19 February 2025
St Helena Airport Revisited
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Plane landing alongside a problematic rock It is almost eight years since I last blogged about the airport . Since then...
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Friday, 28 June 2024
Napoleon Symphony: "Can Burgess write on Napoleon? Of Corsican." (1)
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Burgess's Novel published in 1974, based on the script he wrote for Kubrick Last year's Ridley Scott film on Napoleon i...
Saturday, 6 January 2024
Michael Broers on the Ridley Scott film
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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 h...
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Wednesday, 7 June 2023
Kensal Green Cemetery, St Helena and Napoleon
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Kensal Green Cemetery, founded in 1833, is the oldest and apparently the most prestigious private cemetery in Britain . The Frien...
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