I started this week on Bluesky where I will try to post snippets from my website. Von Bastille bis Waterloo. Wiki | Fandom
Neopolem (@langwoud.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Since I never spent any time before on any socialmedia, except for YouTube, I still have to learn a lot.
For me it is important to promote a Website of more than 12000 pages that till now attracted merely a hundred views a day, and these being formost my own edits on the site.
Neopolem.
Women in Napoleonic France: A Research Guide
https://guides.loc.gov/feminism-french-women-history/women-napoleonic-france
Article of interest (not full-text) Check your local library.
Military music and society during the French wars, 1793–1815
O'Keeffe, Eamonn
Historical Research,Feb2024. Vol. 97 Issue 275, p108-128. 21p.
Abstract
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were experienced by the ears as much as the eyes, yet the auditory dimensions of these conflicts have received limited attention from historians. This article interrogates the reach and reception of military music in wartime Britain and Ireland by drawing on a wealth of evidence from memoirs, diaries, press reports and regimental archives. It demonstrates that military bands provided sought-after entertainment at myriad public events and staged open-air concerts for socially diverse audiences. The article interprets martial music-making as an important civil-military interface and a potent form of cultural propaganda: a means of inculcating patriotism and asserting the sonic supremacy of the established order in a revolutionary age. But it also reveals that military music…
