Wellington Congress 2025 Event
- Time:
- 09:30
- Date:
- 2025-04-04 13:15:00 2025-04-05 13:15:00
- Venue:
- University of Southampton, Avenue Campus
The University of Southampton, which is the home of the archive of the first Duke of Wellington, will be hosting its Eighth Wellington Congress on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th April 2025.
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Event details
The programme features keynote addresses by Professor Beatrice de Graaf and Dr. Ed Coss, along with a wide range of papers exploring the career of the first Duke of Wellington. Discussions will also delve into the broader historical context of Britain, Ireland, the Empire, and Continental Europe during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There will be a congress dinner on Friday 4 April. A programme for this event is below. Register here to join us for this event. Registration closes on Monday 17 March.
Wellington Congress 2025
Draft Programme
Friday 4 April 2025
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09:30-10:00 |
Registration at Avenue Campus main entrance, including coffee
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10:00 |
Welcome and introduction
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1. Plenary session 10:05-11:05 [LT: B] |
Chair:
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2A. Session 11:15-12.30 |
Luke Reynolds The Iron Duke Behind the Velvet Curtain: Theatrical Representations of the First Duke of Wellington Ugo Bruschi ‘A mob armed with bludgeons’ and All That: Popular Politics and Wellington’s 1834 Interim Government Chair: Agustín Coletes-Blanco |
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2B. Session 11:15-12:30 |
Eamonn O’Keeffe No Common Man: Searching for Shadrack Byfield, a Veteran of the War of 1812 Paul Thompson 'Wellington's "Drunken Dog": Sir Nicholas Trant (1769–1839)' Chair: |
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Lunch 12.30-13:30 |
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3A. Session 13:30-14:45 |
John McAleer ‘A sad copy of a dear epistle’: Life, death and letter-writing in the world of the East India Company Severine Angers Cured to Enthusiastic Expectations: Co-Constructing Felicia Hemans’ Experience of the Napoleonic Wars between Home and the Battlefield Chair: |
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3B. Session 13:30-14:45 |
Paul Chamberlain Villeneuve: The Inconvenient Admiral Kevin Linch ‘Wellington’s Men?’: insights from the Georgian Army Officers database Chair: |
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Tea 14:45-15:15 |
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4. Panel 15:15-17:00 |
Philip Ball, Rachel Blackman-Rogers, Rory Butcher Interbranch Relationships within the British Military in the French Revolutionary Wars Chair: Jacqueline Reiter |
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5. Film 17:15-18:15 |
Roy York, Phil Watts, Denis Kenyon The Battle of Waterloo (1913) Courtesy of Irthlingborough Historical Society Archives |
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19:00 |
Conference dinner |
Saturday 5 April 2025
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09:00-09:30 |
Registration at Avenue Campus main entrance, including coffee
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09:30 |
Welcome and introduction
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6. Plenary session 09:35-10:35 [LT: B] |
Dr Ed Coss Chair:
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7A. Session 10:45-12:30
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Zack White Sepoys and the Scum of the Earth: Crime, punishment, and Arthur Wellesley in India 1796-1805 Robin Thomas ‘Zeal and gallantry were conspicuous on all occasions, but could not make up for all deficiencies’: an assessment of the Ordnance Department in the Flanders campaign, 1793-1795. Martin Howard Wellington and the British Army's Medical Department in the Peninsular War: A Study of Dispatches Chair: |
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7B. Session 10:45-12:30
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William Fletcher Ideas, Networks and Operational Effect: The Influence of the Scottish Enlightenment on the British Army at the turn of the Nineteenth Century Kyle van Beurden The Duke of York’s ‘Reform’ of Light Infantry in the 1790s Andrew Bamford A Post-Waterloo ‘Lessons-Learned’ Exercise Chair: |
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Lunch 12:30-13:30 |
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8A. Session 13:30-15:15 |
Garry Wills ‘Highly Meritorious’ - Another Day in the Retreat from Burgos, 23 October 1812 Alistair Nichols and Philippe Calmettes The Battle of Orthez, 27 February 1814 – an archaeological discovery John Peaty Wellington and Napoleon's Last Victory Chair: |
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8B. Session 13:30-15:15 |
Gareth Glover Peninsular Preparation? The British deployment in Portugal 1796-1802 Stephen Petty Crossing the Douro, 12 May 1809: ‘His conduct during this short campaign gives him the first rank among British Generals of the day.’ Anthony Gray Wellington’s strategy for the defence of Lisbon: the wider impacts of the third French invasion of Portugal 1810-1811 Chair:
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Tea 15:15-15:45 |
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9A. Session 15:45-17:00 |
Magnus Guild Nationality , Nationalism and Alienation during and after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Agustín Coletes-Blanco An English poet’s afterlife in the Spanish Carlist War Alicia Laspra-Rodríguez Between Fernando and Carlos: The Spanish Liberal Revolution in the British Press Chair: |
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9B. Session 15:45-17:00 |
Silvia Gregorio-Sainz ‘Not Free, but Licentious’: Wellington’s clash with the Spanish Press during the Peninsular War(s) Lilly Iwona The media image of Prince Albert based on selected British press titles and journalism (1840-1861) Chair |
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17:10 [LT: B] |
Farewells and close of conference |
