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Luke Reynolds, Ph.D., FRHistS
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APIR at UConn Stamford. Award-winning Who Owned Waterloo? out now from OUP
Cultural, social, and military history. All views my own. He/Him.
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Heritage 1815: a committee of Napoleonic historians working to safeguard the future of sites from the Waterloo campaign.

Following news of the planned sale of Gemioncourt Farm & 8.5 hectares of land on the Quatre Bras battlefield, the committee has issued a statement 🧵1/
March 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Our very own Luke Reynolds @lureynol.bsky.social will be speaking at University College Dublin later this month. Don’t miss your chance to come along and see him in person - if you bring a copy of his book he’ll insist on signing it for you too 😉
March 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Want to hear these fabulous people speak?
Well, you've just got to book for our Wellington Congress! buff.ly/4juc21N ‪@rmbhistory.bsky.social @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social @lureynol.bsky.social @1812andallthat.bsky.social @kevinlinch.bsky.social @caseshotpublish.bsky.social @zwhitehistory.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
When @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social invites you to a preview screening of “Invincible Season 3” but you’re on your phone so the email subject cuts off at “Invincible Seas” and you get really excited because you think there’s a new naval war film you somehow hadn’t heard about.
January 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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We’ve hit the incredible milestone of HALF A MILLION downloads on the Napoleonic Wars Podcast.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us on the passionate deep-dives into all aspects of the period, and especially to our phenomenal guests.

Be sure to follow us as aim for 1 million!
January 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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What was Christmas dinner like in the Napoleonic era?

Rebecca Earle joins @lureynol.bsky.social & Josh Redeen to talk about when the Christmas dinner got invented & what you’d be eating in the festive period 200 years ago

Christmas drink recipes are also shared. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
December 21, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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What was Christmas like in the Napoleonic era?

In the 1st of 12 festive specials on @napwarspod.bsky.social our very own @lureynol.bsky.social answers important questions like ‘would Sharpe recognise an Argos catalogue’? (We might be dating ourselves a bit there!)

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December 17, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Booking remains open for our talk tonight, courtesy of
@lureynol.bsky.social!
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Don't miss our upcoming talk on the 19th Century Army on stage. Dr Luke Reynolds will be speaking to the Society on Monday 16 December. Register now: https://my.demio.com/ref/zz3GI7PGj2JbldH8
December 16, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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The Duke of Wellington's funeral took place #OnThisDay in 1852. A crowd of around 1.5 million watched the procession from St James Park, through Piccadilly, Pall Mall, Charing Cross, the Strand & on to St Paul’s, the first large-scale service under the dome
Death and commemoration of the Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, died on 14 September 1852, at Walmer Castle, Kent. He was regarded as one of one of Britain’s premier soldier, a reputation that was sealed by his defeat…
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November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Who will I be seeing in Denver for #NACBS2024 ? I will be speaking about hippodramas, to everyone’s shock and surprise.
November 12, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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I think the peer review process survives because the experience of staying up late to bang out a short assignment the night before it's due keeps academics feeling young.
February 20, 2024 at 9:52 PM
For the entire month of December, the annual commemoration chapter of #WhoOwnedWaterloo is free to read on Oxford Academic. Happy advent to all who celebrate, and if you enjoy the chapter, check my feed for a discount code for the paperback. academic.oup.com/book/41868/c...
December 1, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Today is the UK paperback publication day for Who Owned Waterloo! To celebrate (and mark the anniversary of the funeral of the Duke of Wellington) I sat down with @zwhitehistory.bsky.social to talk about Waterloo parties. Join us! anchor.fm/the-napoleon...
November 18, 2023 at 7:28 PM
I know the study only covers three cities, but I have to salute the amount of shade Cambridge is throwing at its traditional rival with this sub-headline. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/medi...
October 17, 2023 at 12:00 PM
I had enormous fun writing this piece for @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about "Napoleon" Gomersal, the man who, for many Britons in the first half of the nineteenth century, was the Emperor. ageofrevolutions.com/2023/09/25/b...
September 25, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Whoever thought that an argument I brainstormed in a Waterloo Live video about a horse would make it into the revisions for a chapter.
September 24, 2023 at 8:54 PM
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We're hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on Written Worlds in 17th-century England at Birkbeck, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and me (CI), focusing on #EarlyModern non-elite writers.

£42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov. Apply by 22 Oct: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
September 22, 2023 at 9:13 AM
If you've been wanting to read (the award-winning) Who Owned Waterloo? but it was simply too expensive, good news! The paperback (£24.99, out November 18) is now available for preorder! Use code AAFLYG6 for 30% off. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 20, 2023 at 6:24 PM