Reflections on A Journey to St Helena

Reflections on St Helena, Napoleon's exile, and English attitudes towards Napoleon.

Wednesday, 6 September 2017

Manchester 1821: a toast to the Immortal Memory of Napoleon Bonaparte

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The Plaque Commemorating Peterloo The Smithfield meeting in July 1819 passed a resolution opposing the British Government's im...
Sunday, 27 August 2017

Napoleon’s Representative on Earth : "I am the keeper of the empty tomb"

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To the Saints, Michel Dancoisne-Martineau, the Honorary French Consul and Curator of the French Properties on St. Helena, is simply “...
Friday, 18 August 2017

1815: Napoleon's Abolition of the Slave Trade

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Pro-Napoleon propaganda produced by William Hone in 1815 William Hone(1780-1842) was a satirist, a writer and a bookseller whom the a...
Monday, 14 August 2017

Imperial Exile: The Napoleon Diaries

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Imperial Exile by James Hartley, now published on Kindle Everybody around him at Longwood wrote their accounts of Napoleon's ex...
Monday, 31 July 2017

St Helena 1814-1816

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The St Helena Judicial Records 1808 My transcription of the years 1808-1816 from the St Helena Judicial Records is now complete. The ...
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