In the early 1800s Christmas was far from the commercialised festival of over-indulgence that it is today, but it was still a special day and often the occasion for more than a little feasting. Gif…

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Almost everybody interested in the Napoleonic Wars will be familiar with Bernard Cornwell’s fictional rifleman, Richard Sharpe. However, the first fictional rifleman was probably from the 5th Bat…

Plate from Percy Groves, History of the 91st Princess Louise’s Argyllshire Highlanders (1894) The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars exacted an awful human toll. As one British publicat…

It is the curse of historians that new sources come to light once a book has been finished. Towards the end of the period when I was researching and writing my book on Sir Arthur Wellesley’s 1808 c…

It is the curse of historians that new sources come to light once a book has been finished. Towards the end of the period when I was researching and writing my book on Sir Arthur Wellesley’s 1808 c…