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A hat worn by Napoleon fetches $1.6 million at an auction of the French emperor's belongings

A faded, cracked felt hat worn by Napoléon Bonaparte fetched $1.6 million at an auction Sunday of the French emperor’s belongings

The Independent UK

Magnificent ‘Napoleon’ depicts leader as brilliant general, ambitious statesman and sniveling little weasel

Joaquin Phoenix riveting in the title role of director Ridley Scott’s violent, sometimes hilarious epic.

Chicago Sun-Times

Napoleon review – Ridley Scott’s sturdy epic only fully comes alive on the battlefield

The impressive combat sequences pull you right in, but both the director and Joaquin Phoenix as Bonaparte struggle to show us what drove the military mastermind

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The week in audio: Death of a Code Breaker; A History of the World in Spy Objects; Legacy; Disability and the Adult Industry; The Essay– review

Radio Wales investigates the death of GCHQ’s Gareth Williams; Alice Loxton uncovers snippets of spy lore; and first-time producers deliver BBC radio gold

The Guardian - UK

Did Napoleon really fire at the pyramids? A historian explains the truth behind the legends of Ridley Scott's biopic

Directors of historical feature films face a difficult task. How can they make the characters familiar to an audience without reducing them to caricature? How can they make sure that knowledge of the outcome – battles won or lost, empires built then ruined – doesn’t make the story seem like…

The Conversation

Campaign trail: follow Napoleon’s progress across Europe

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon biopic is released next week, but from birthplace to battlefields you can still follow in Bonaparte’s mighty footsteps

The Guardian - UK

Review: Ridley Scott's Epic Vision Is No Match for Napoleon’s Immense Legacy

The life of Napoleon proves too large for Ridley Scott to capture — at least with any sort of historical nuance.

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Napoleon review: "One of Ridley Scott's best in almost two decades"

Total Film

Master and Commander at 20: a miraculous masterpiece of action cinema

Peter Weir’s adventure didn’t find enough of an audience in 2003 but its old-fashioned sturdiness has given it a long life

The Guardian - US

Black Sabbath and Napoleon are a match made in Heaven (and Hell)

A heavily doctored version of Black Sabbath's iconic War Pigs is burning up the internet via a trailer for Ridley Scott's upcoming Napoleon blockbuster

Metal Hammer

Ridley Scott tells history buffs criticising Napoleon to ‘get a life’

Forthcoming historical drama has been critiqued for straying away from historical truths

The Independent UK

Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher: an incoherent mess of references that fails to honour Edgar Allan Poe

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The Conversation

The present tense is perfect English for history, sports commentary – and jokes

Letters: Linguistics professor John O’Regan on history written in the present tense, and Simon Allen on other documentary annoyances

The Guardian - UK

Is Theresa May cosplaying as Napoleon? What this portrait tells us about powerful women

Saied Dai’s painting captures the former PM’s sternness and stoicism, her failure and her femininity. But it also raises questions about how artists use male traits to depict female leaders

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Best Halloween costumes for best friends: Matching, spooky and silly options for BFFs

Spooky and silly costumes for dynamic duos

The Guardian - UK

I love history programmes. But there’s one trend that makes my blood boil …

If something happened centuries ago, let’s talk about it as if it happened centuries ago – not as if it was going on right now, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

A sculptural whirlwind lands in Yorkshire and butterfly wings hit the canvas – the week in art

Portraits by Freud, Rego and Himid come together and we go deep on a portrait of a Napoleonic battle – all in your weekly dispatch

Al Jazeera

Where do the items in the British Museum come from?

The British Museum houses a collection of about eight million historical and cultural artefacts from around the world.

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The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell review – lost in space

The prodigious writer’s tricksy new novel features Napoleon, an alien named Harper and a trip to the moon. So why is it so dull?

France 24

Paris exhibits to see this autumn, from Bollywood to Chagall and Picasso

As Parisians return from their summer holidays and get back to work or school (a period known in France as “la rentrée”), the City of Lights is set for a rich cultural season. From Russian-French artist Marc Chagall to a retrospective on Indian cinema, FRANCE 24 has selected 10 of…

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Timbuk2 Spire Laptop Backpack 2.0 review

The Timbuk2 Spire Laptop Backpack 2.0 is an ultra-rugged laptop backpack that’s as adaptable as you are.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s every kid’s wish to ride that dragon’: readers’ favourite children’s films of all time

After our critics picked their best films for kids, readers share the family friendly flicks that have made them laugh, bawl and feel like they belong

The Independent UK

Joaquin Phoenix slapped Napoleon costar Vanessa Kirby without warning after pair agreed to ‘shock each other’

Two actors play Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming film

The Independent UK

Ridley Scott recalls Joaquin Phoenix’s intense 10-day preparation for Napoleon role: ‘Detail by detail’

Scott and Phoenix have reunited on another film following their collaboration for the 2000 blockbuster, ‘Gladiator’

The Independent UK

Wallace has ‘not thought about legacy’ ahead of paper on armed force’s future

The outgoing Defence Secretary said he owes ‘it to the men and women of the armed forces to import the lessons of Ukraine’.

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