In 1811 the first threatening letter signed by ‘General Ned Ludd’ was sent to employers in Nottingham. Wages had not only failed to rise in line with prices, they had been cut to ensure greater…
Posts Published by John Tarttelin
B.Ed., M.A. (History), Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society (Legion of
Merit) Author of The Real Napoleon – The Untold Story (Now writing England’s
Wars Against Napoleon) and 45 years reading about Napoleon.
Privilege – 2
It is now time to look beneath the cloud and see how ordinary folk were living in Georgian England. The poor had very few choices to make and very little control over their own lives….
Privilege – 1
« Up to the treaty of Tilsit, the wars of France were essentially defensive ; for the bloody contest that wasted the continent so many years was not a struggle for pre-eminence between ambitious powers, not…
Dan Snow – Under the Weather
Snow entitles his March 14th 2015 article for the Daily Telegraph : « The French should end their love affair with Napoleon – he was an utterly brutal and callous dictator. » Snow writes as if he’s…
Napoléon, l’éruption du Tambora et Waterloo
Au moment où les dernières lueurs du crépuscule s’affaiblissaient pour laisser place à la nuit, les restes héroïques de la Vieille Garde s’efforçaient de contenir le torrent des fuyards. Le chaos était alors endémique dans…
William Hazlitt and Napoleon – 3
The writer Edward Sterling aka Vetus attacked Napoleon vociferously in The Times. Vetus wanted the Allies to fight on, depose Napoleon and restore the Bourbons to the French throne. (103) Hazlitt favoured a dialogue with…
William Hazlitt and Napoleon – 2
On April 10th, 1798, his twentieth birthday, William set off on a roundabout jaunt of nearly two hundred miles to met his soulmate Coleridge in the Vale of Llangollen. When he arrived on May 20th…