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Echoes of 1815: A Concert of Music from Napoleon’s 100 Days

23 February 2015, 1-2pm

Ensemble Room, Warwick Arts Centre

The Waterloo Singers
Katherine Hambridge, soprano
Mark Austin, piano
Ever wondered what they were singing at the Battle of Waterloo? Come along to hear this and much more at a concert of musical responses to Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815. Performed by a motley collection of academics and musicians, the repertoire ranges from popular song, satirical vaudeville, propaganda opera and sentimental art song from around the UK, France and German lands.

The concert marks the launch of the online exhibition ‘The Last Stand: Napoleon’s 100 Days in 100 Objects’, a collaboration between Mark Philp from the History department, the AHRC-funded project ‘French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era’ led by Katherine Astbury, and the European History Research Centre.

Thu 12 Feb 2015, 15:01

Lewis Walpole Library 2015-2016 Fellowships and Travel Grants in Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of Yale University Library, invites applications to its 2015–2016 fellowship program. The Library (in Connecticut) offers short-term residential fellowships and travel grants to support research in the Library’s rich collections of eighteenth-century materials (mainly British), including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings. Scholars pursuing postdoctoral or advanced research, as well as doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation, are encouraged to apply.

The application deadline is January 12, 2015. Awards will be announced in March.
Wed 05 Nov 2014, 16:53

2014-15 Seminar Series announced

Please see our Events page (main menu) for details of our current series of seminars and other events.

Fri 03 Oct 2014, 17:00

Giorgio Riello wins World History Association Book Prize

Congratulations to Giorgio Riello for receiving the 2014 World History Association Book Prize for Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (Cambridge, 2013). Please see our Publications page (main menu) for more information about Giorgio and the book.

Fri 03 Oct 2014, 16:59

joint Birmingham/Warwick Workshop on 'Humanity'

Please join us on 14 May 14 2014 for the joint Birmingham/Warwick Workshop on 'Humanity', between 1 pm and 6:30 pm in the Ramphal Building 0.03/4.

Fri 03 Oct 2014, 16:57

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