Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Went the Day Well? Witnessing Waterloo, by David Crane, William Collins, RRP£20 / Knopf, RRP$30, 384 pages The News ...

Waterloo 200 organisation will produce 500,000 replicas as part of events to mark anniversary of Wellington’s victory It was the first medal issued by the British government to all soldiers who had ...

The British Museum has raised £100,000 from the public to enable it to secure paintings of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo. The appeal was conducted on JustGiving, and it is the first time ...

This week’s 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo has been celebrated in many ways. One of the most amazing is that the Chilcot Inquiry into the battle is said to be ready for publication any ...

"Gentlemanly" warfare. Flickr/Frans de Wit. Some rights reserved. Last year’s commemorations of the First World War were largely predictable. Politicians “coming ...

A portrait of a British army commander who owned and abused slaves has been taken down by National Museum Wales. Sir Thomas Picton was the highest-ranking officer to be killed at the Battle of ...

Nearly 200 years after the Battle of Waterloo, the complete skeleton of a young, possibly British soldier, has been discovered at the site of the battle. Archaeologists hope that this rare find will ...

This article analyses how nineteenth-century British visitors of Waterloo anticipated, experienced and explained their visit of 'the field'. The article shows how British visitors attempted to claim ...