Lord Liverpool

Desperate fools

14 May 2022 9:00 am

Almost half of the terrorists hadn’t even turned up. Still, on the night of 23 February 1820, 25 men, including…

‘Chelsea pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch’ by Sir David Wilkie

One dark summer’s day

7 February 2015 9:00 am

Of all the big battalions of books marking the bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo that have come my way,…

Giving Jonathan a drubbing

28 September 2013 9:00 am

Peter Snow explains that he decided to look into this extraordinary story when he realised how few people knew about…