Rear Guard Action

If you have any interest in Waterloo the one thing you have to do in the next few months is go to Dordrecht and visit the exhibition on the ...

Mattijs Lok: Windvanen. Napoleontische Bestuurders in de Nederlandse en Franse Restauratie (1813-1820) A study of the political survival o...

History can be harsh on the powerful, and it's part and parcel of being up on the hill. But some 'great men' (and a disproportio...

Last Sunday we went to the Hermitage in Amsterdam to watch the Van Gogh collection that’s temporarily housed there, as well as a nice co...

Lately, I've been reading several books on the Waterloo campaign as a friend of mine is doing a biography of Dutch king William II, who ...