{"id":18773,"date":"2019-06-30T05:48:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=18773"},"modified":"2019-06-30T05:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:48:42","slug":"the-outcomes-of-waterloo-1815-2015-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=18773","title":{"rendered":"The Outcomes of Waterloo 1815-2015 (Talk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cTHE OUTCOMES OF WATERLOO, 1815-2015\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dr Russ Foster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>was on 21st July 2015 in The Kincaid Gallery, RGJ (RIFLES) Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Based on his recently published book, Dr Russ Foster\u2019s illustrated talk will consider the huge impact which the battle of Waterloo had in the years after 1815.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Britons commemorated Wellington\u2019s victory in a myriad of ways: in poems, paintings and statues; in street names and pub signs. They also joined the masses that descended on the battlefield itself, which quickly became more of a tourist attraction than a war memorial. After Wellington\u2019s death in 1852, however, official acts of public commemoration declined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was the consequence of something more than the simple passage of time \u2013 for the legacy of Waterloo was both contested and politicised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Russ Foster graduated with a first in history from the University of Southampton and was the first graduate to work on the Wellington Papers when they were deposited at the University in 1983. He has since written numerous books and articles on Wellington and Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cTHE OUTCOMES OF WATERLOO, 1815 - 2015\u201d\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WwvspyngnM?start=447&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sourced From YouTube(Credited to The Royal Green Jackets ( Rifles ) Museum Winchester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on his recently published book, Dr Russ Foster\u2019s illustrated talk will consider the huge impact which the battle of Waterloo had in the years after 1815.<br \/>\nBritons commemorated Wellington\u2019s victory in a myriad of ways: in poems, paintings and statues; in street names and pub signs. They also joined the masses that descended on the battlefield itself, which quickly became more of a tourist attraction than a war memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3751,17,95],"class_list":["post-18773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-dr-russ-foster","tag-memorial-at-peninsula","tag-the-royal-green-jackets","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}