NLS releases chapbooks revealing Battle of Waterloo

1st July 2015

National Library of Scotland releases chapbooks revealing Battle of Waterloo

The 1815 Battle of Waterloo marked a climactic end to the Napoleonic Wars. To commemorate this decisive event, the NLS has released their collection of 78 chapbooks about Napoleon’s wars on the Digital Gallery. These cheaply printed booklets recount events from the late 1790s to the Battle of Waterloo. Mostly in ballad form, the chapbooks were all printed in Scotland.

They also offer opinions about Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais, Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington.

See the collection online.

TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland, SCIO SC043009) is a co-operative network which champions our shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and local languages. TRACS brings together the Traditional Music Forum (SCIO SC042867), the Scottish Storytelling Forum (SCIO SC052330) and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland (SCIO SC045085). Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness of Scotland’s places: our intangible cultural heritage. TRACS and the Forums have their registered office at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR. The Storytelling Centre is a partnership project between the Storytelling Forum and The Church of Scotland (SC011353).