With 205th anniversary commemorations cancelled due to Covid-19, I have put together an initiative called #WaterlooRemembered. This video explains a little of the rationale behind the concept, and what you can expect.
More details will follow in the coming days. Please pass word on to anyone who may be interested, and remember to have your say when the programme starts on 5th June.
Let's see what this series about Belle Alliance will show - there this battle is quite over studied, it shows how difficult it is to cut through all the lies and myths shrouding it.
The most interesting question for me is, why did they prevail so long, despite the truth was out there all the time - national bias, politics, hero fawning, covering up of severe blunders, and most of all - ignoring non English and non French sources for ages.
Did old Karl Marx utter such a sentence that religion is opium for the people? He could have added - history is used for that all the time as well. Well it is very difficult when being drugged all the time to see beyond the scope of an addict.
Looking forward to listen to this project.