Heritage 1815: a committee of Napoleonic historians working to safeguard the future of sites from the Waterloo campaign. Following news of the planned sale of Gemioncourt Farm & 8.5 hectares of land on the Quatre Bras battlefield, the committee has issued a statement 🧵1/

Our very own Luke Reynolds @lureynol.bsky.social will be speaking at University College Dublin later this month. Don’t miss your chance to come along and see him in person - if you bring a copy of his book he’ll insist on signing it for you too 😉

Want to hear these fabulous people speak? Well, you've just got to book for our Wellington Congress! buff.ly/4juc21N ‪@rmbhistory.bsky.social @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social @lureynol.bsky.social @1812andallthat.bsky.social @kevinlinch.bsky.social @caseshotpublish.bsky.social @zwhitehistory.bsky.social

When @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social invites you to a preview screening of “Invincible Season 3” but you’re on your phone so the email subject cuts off at “Invincible Seas” and you get really excited because you think there’s a new naval war film you somehow hadn’t heard about.

We’ve hit the incredible milestone of HALF A MILLION downloads on the Napoleonic Wars Podcast. Thank you to everyone who has joined us on the passionate deep-dives into all aspects of the period, and especially to our phenomenal guests. Be sure to follow us as aim for 1 million!

What was Christmas dinner like in the Napoleonic era? Rebecca Earle joins @lureynol.bsky.social & Josh Redeen to talk about when the Christmas dinner got invented & what you’d be eating in the festive period 200 years ago Christmas drink recipes are also shared. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

What was Christmas like in the Napoleonic era? In the 1st of 12 festive specials on @napwarspod.bsky.social our very own @lureynol.bsky.social answers important questions like ‘would Sharpe recognise an Argos catalogue’? (We might be dating ourselves a bit there!) open.spotify.com/episode/2XI9...

Booking remains open for our talk tonight, courtesy of @lureynol.bsky.social! my.demio.com/ref/zz3GI7PG...

The Duke of Wellington's funeral took place #OnThisDay in 1852. A crowd of around 1.5 million watched the procession from St James Park, through Piccadilly, Pall Mall, Charing Cross, the Strand & on to St Paul’s, the first large-scale service under the dome

Join us! www.broadwayworld.com/industry/art...

Who will I be seeing in Denver for #NACBS2024 ? I will be speaking about hippodramas, to everyone’s shock and surprise.

I think the peer review process survives because the experience of staying up late to bang out a short assignment the night before it's due keeps academics feeling young.

For the entire month of December, the annual commemoration chapter of #WhoOwnedWaterloo is free to read on Oxford Academic. Happy advent to all who celebrate, and if you enjoy the chapter, check my feed for a discount code for the paperback. academic.oup.com/book/41868/c...

Today is the UK paperback publication day for Who Owned Waterloo! To celebrate (and mark the anniversary of the funeral of the Duke of Wellington) I sat down with @zwhitehistory.bsky.social to talk about Waterloo parties. Join us! anchor.fm/the-napoleon...

I know the study only covers three cities, but I have to salute the amount of shade Cambridge is throwing at its traditional rival with this sub-headline. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/medi...

I had enormous fun writing this piece for @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about "Napoleon" Gomersal, the man who, for many Britons in the first half of the nineteenth century, was the Emperor. ageofrevolutions.com/2023/09/25/b...

Whoever thought that an argument I brainstormed in a Waterloo Live video about a horse would make it into the revisions for a chapter.

We're hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on Written Worlds in 17th-century England at Birkbeck, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and me (CI), focusing on #EarlyModern non-elite writers. £42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov. Apply by 22 Oct: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

If you've been wanting to read (the award-winning) Who Owned Waterloo? but it was simply too expensive, good news! The paperback (£24.99, out November 18) is now available for preorder! Use code AAFLYG6 for 30% off. global.oup.com/academic/pro...