Tying in with the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, this tells the story of the battle through 100 rare objects from the Napoleonic era. These include battle dress, swords, battle drums, snuff boxes, engraved stirrups, scabbards, battle plans and many more
GARETH GLOVER is an ex Royal Navy officer who has studied the Napoleonic wars for over 40 years and during the last decade has published over one hundred volumes of memoirs/journals of soldiers who fought during the period. He has utilised all of this new material to rewrite the entire Waterloo campaign in an effort to eradicate the numerous distortions that have taken root over the past two centuries.
ANDREW ROBERTS is a film and television author and journalist. He has contributed film articles to Sight and Sound, History Today, The Observer, The Independent and The Guardian. He is the author of The Double Act (THP, 2018) and has previously contributed chapters to Ealing Revisited, British Comedy Cinema and the Routledge Companion to British Cinema.