Robert Peel in Caricature
October 30, 2014
Say the word ‘caricature’ today in Britain and the chances are that you’ll have memories of the merciless lampooning of politicians by Spitting Image in the 1980s and 1990s or think of the prodigious output of leading political cartoonists such as Steve Bell in The Guardian, Richard Gaunt writes. These are the inheritors of a long …
The Habsburg Empire and Italian Nationalism, 1815-66
October 23, 2014
The Habsburg Empire that was finally extinguished in 1918 was made up of numerous nationalities. The national sentiment that developed within the Empire’s various national groupings in the nineteenth century is usually seen as a force for division within that empire, leading first to the independence of Italy between 1859 and 1870, and ultimately to …
Byron in Venice
October 3, 2014
Lord Byron’s reputation as the quintessential romantic hero – brilliant, seductive, cosmopolitan, ironically humorous, and a little dangerous – is well established. In a new article (see link below), David Laven of Nottingham History argues that this persona was very much his own creation. During his stay in Venice between November 1816 and December 1819, …
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