Waterloo and its Afterlife in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical and Newspaper Press
Call For Submissions: Special Issue of Victorian Periodicals Review! In anticipation of the 2015 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) annual conference hosted by the University of Ghent, Belgium, Victorian Periodicals Review invites submissions for a special issue commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon’s final defeat was of course a watershed event in the history of Europe, and the political and cultural impact of the battle would remain fresh for decades to come. The events shaped by the historical legacy of Waterloo inspired intense coverage and debate in the periodical press of the time, and for […]