A REVOLUTION IN SATIRE Publication by the Paul Mellon Centre in November 2022. Can be pre-ordered....
The English Print is now available online through the Paul Mellon Centre's Art and Architecture ePortal. This may be helpful to some of the many people who have contacted me frustrated at how expensive it is to buy a copy at a time when it has been...
Waterloo is now available in a Chinese edition with a fully revised and corrected text thanks to its excellent translator, Frank Gao. This book can be bought from: JingDong (京东): https://item.jd.com/12583999.html Dangdang (当当): http://product.dangdang.com/27950879.html Tmall (天猫)：https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=607082978338...
On Wednesday 27 November 2019 I'll be talking about some aspect of 'This Dark Business' - yet to be arranged - at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society . Haven't been back to Newcastle for years and really looking forward to it!...
On Friday 26 July 2019 I'll be giving a lunchtime lecture at the National Army Museum on the Boulogne spy Ring in 1803....
On Thursday 6 June 2019 at 7 pm I'll be giving a talk at Fairfax House, York, entitled 'The Fantastic visions of James Gillray'....
On 22 May 2019 I shall be giving a seminar paper at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in Bedford Square London on 'Gillray in Grub Street: some episodes from the 1780s'. All welcome....
From 17-24 June, along with Ashley Truluck, I shall be guiding an expanded Waterloo tour that now takes in Paris along with Napoleon's palaces of Malmaison and Fontainebleau before picking up the Waterloo campaign from the point where Napoleon invaded the Netherlands. It should be...
From 30 April to 6 May 2019 I shall be back in Andalusia guiding a tour for The Cultural Experience that centres on Cadiz, describing the complex relationship between Britain and Spain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and taking in the battles of...
The beginning of August saw the publication of This Dark Business, an analysis of the early stages of the Secret War against Napoleon. I am quite proud of this book which has been very favourably reviewed by Andrew Roberts in the Sunday Times....