#castlereagh

[drinkthemlock]

because accusations of homosexuality seem to be the political ordre du jour in the regency era it can lead one to assume that every member of lord liverpool’s cabinet was a gay alcoholic. which is not true but weird nonetheless

[empirearchives]

Heinrich Heine on Napoleon’s enemies

Buch Le Grand, Heinrich Heine, 1826

[mrs-trench]

I guess at least the date is right ...

[aussienitro]

[empirearchives]

I think about the “stop, traveller, and piss” line far too often ngl

Extremely funny to me that Lord Byron & Percy Shelley both really hated Castlereagh but Shelley’s way of expressing it was writing an epic poem depicting Castlereagh as the personification of death wearing a metaphorical bloody mask & being followed by hounds which he feeds human hearts while Byron just went LMAO pissing on his grave

[jrkyy]

Redesigns of my old clone high napoleonic dudes

[tellerede]

Congress of Vienna yaoi?!!

I have no idea if there's an audience for this out there but they've been rotting my brain so

[kelvinthegoatt]

I had this idea for a long time

[zenia62]

Hey guys, as I promised, I'll be sharing some historical figure playlist I made few years ago 👀 I hope y'all like it tho 😭 Shout out to the ppl that help me w this playlist back then! I already credit them in the description 🫡 I do make some of them myself so it might be bad 💀 Anyways, Thank you guys n have a great day, stay safe🌙

George III

Lord Castlereagh

Nelson x Hardy

Arthur Wellesley

Jean Lannes

Michel Ney

Joachim Murat

British Figures w Kpop songs (?) 💀

[lordcastaway]

what if i told you wellington was not a very good frie– *gunshots*

[saintlygames]

"But not the man who waited. He wasn't giving Kite that, not for anything."

[ciderbird]

Sorry if this request bothers you but where are you reading stuff about the Congress of Vienna? I heard it's really chaotic there XO

Or maybe you could update us some interesting parts that happened in the Congress. I would appreciate it a lot! Thank you for answering 💗

It’s no bother at all! And to be honest, I myself need to read up on the Congress of Vienna because I only encountered bits and pieces about it in different memoirs and I know the timeline very loosely. But to give you a brief overview: five major European powers got together to discuss the future of the continent in the post-Napoleonic world and it went about as well as you’d expect. The meetings lasted for 9 months, interspersed with entertainment, intrigue, infidelity, personal drama, and interrupted by Napoleon himself returning from exile, at which point the participants decided to finally get their shit together. It effectively set up a new system in Europe, centered around preserving old monarchies and protecting the balance of the great powers.

But, of course, the numerous love affairs and anecdotes from the period is what makes up most of my personal interest (also Napoleon just straight up sending Alexander the letters between Talleyrand and Metternich plotting a secret anti-russian alliance and Alexander calmly showing it to them got to be one of my favorite moments)

I can’t recommend something definitive to read, as my own knowledge is really fragmented, but this book by Adam Zamoyski is a pretty good start

[mrs-trench]

Did Castlereagh wear glasses?

From the correspondent of the Morning Herald, London, printed Monday 19 August 1822

THE LATE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY NORTH CRAY, Sunday Night [18 August 1822] We attended the little village church this morning … The pew of the Londonderry family stands conspicuously by the reading desk, and it was a practice with his Lordship to stand so that he could read the Liturgy from the Clerk’s book. The poor fellow felt honoured by this participation; and, after the service was over this morning, we saw him in the midst of a groupe, describing the circumstance, with tears in his eyesꟷpointing out the exact spot on which his Lordship stoodꟷand showing minutely how he used to hold the leaves of his book to accommodate him. The poor man’s earnestness, and the eager attention of his hearers, would have been a fine subject for Yorick.

Why would Castlereagh want to follow the service from a book at some distance from where he was standing? Perhaps he was long-sighted but always left his reading glasses at home.

Note: The interiors of many churches in the 18th and early 19th centuries included designated pews for families, and a two- or three-layer structure with the pulpit from which the minister delivered his sermon at the top, then a reading desk for the minister and the parish clerk’s desk at the bottom. St James Church North Cray was rebuilt in the nineteenth century, and I have not seen a plan of the 1822 layout, but the interior of St Clement’s Church, Knowlton, Kent, might give an idea of the sort of arrangement.

https://www.visitkent.co.uk/media/2530/knowlton-st-clement-int-credit-

The view from the clerk's point of view. A family pew on the right.

[koda-friedrich]

Past illustration🪽

[the1ronduke]

Please, I miss him a lot

[napoleonic-confessions]