Wellington Congress 2013
Programme
Friday 5 April 2013
From 12 noon / Registration at Avenue Campus main entrance12:30-13:30 / Lunch (optional)
Plenary session
14:00 / Welcome and introduction with Lord Douro and Professor Chris Woolgar
14:15-15:00 / Rory Muir
‘Title tbc’
15:00-15:30 / Tea
Parallel sessions
Session A / Chair:
15:30-17:15 / Charles Esdaile
The Burgos Project: the March
Philip Freeman
The Burgos Project: the Mapping
Session B / Chair:
15:30-17:15 / Ilya Berkovich
Why they enlisted? The initial motivation of old-regime common soldiers
John Peaty
‘The most favoured of subjects: Wellington, honours and awards in the Peninsula’
18:00 / Dinner at Avenue Campus
Please note: unless you are a residential delegate, the evening meals are not automatically part of your package and need to be pre-booked.
19:30-21:30
(depart at 19:15) / Evening entertainment: Reception at Tudor House (Bugle Street, Southampton SO14 2AD).
Transport: a coach will depart from the Avenue Campus at 19:15 for Tudor House.
A single return journey will be offered at 21:30 from Tudor House to Avenue Campus. Delegates wishing to stay later in Southampton should arrange their own return transport. A list of local taxi services is provided in the delegate packs.
Saturday 6 April 2013
from 08:45 / Registration at Avenue Campus main entrance. If you require transport to this evening’s event (see below for details), please inform the Congress organisers by 13:00
Plenary Session / Chair:
9:00-10:00 / Emma Clery
The peninsular campaign and cultural propaganda: the case of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
10:00-10:30 / Coffee
Session 1 / Chair:
10:30-12:15 / Alicia Laspra
Wellington’s Spanish friends and allies
Russ Foster
Strange Stories: Literary Representations of Waterloo from Scott to Hardy
Greg Roberts
Salamanca or bust: a face-saver for the Wellesleys?
12:15-13:15 / Lunch
Parallel Sessions
Session 2 (A) / Chair:
13:15-15:00 / Martin Stoneham
Military bridging in the Peninsular War
Mark Thompson
Wellington’s relationship with his engineers in the Peninsular and his role in the formation of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Dick Tenant
Congreve’s rockets
Session 2 (B) / Chair
13:15-15:00 / José Sánchez-Arcilla and Emilio De Diego Garcia
The key to understanding the War: paper in Spanish; a translation will be provided
15:00-15:30 / Tea
Session 3 / Chair:
15:30-17:15 / Elías Durán de Porras
British Consul P.C.Tupper and his role during the Peninsular War
Andrew Bamford
‘Dastardly and atrocious’: Lieutenant Blake, Captain Clune and why the 55th missed Waterloo
Denis Kenyon
What’s in a name? From 33rd to ‘The Duke’s’
18:00 onwards / Reception and private view of Wellington-related exhibition in the Special Collections Gallery, Hartley Library (Level 4), Highfield Campus. The Highfield Campus is a 10-15 minute walk from Avenue. Please inform the Congress organisers by 13:00 should you wish to have a taxi booked.
19:30-22:30 / Conference dinner in the Terrace Restaurant (building 38), Highfield Campus. This is a ticketed event. Those delegates who have booked a place will find their ticket in their delegate pack.
Sunday 7 April 2013
From 08:45 / Registration at Avenue Campus main entrance
If you require transport to this afternoon’s event (see below for details), please inform the Congress organisers by 11:15
Parallel Sessions
Session 1 (A) / Chair:
09:00-10:45 / Michael Hyde
Sustaining Wellington’s Peninsular army
Bruce Collins
The sieges of San Sebastian, 1813, revisited
Stephen Petty
In such perfect order: Wellington’s military machine, 1813
Session 1 (B) / Chair:
09:00-10:45 / John Rumsby
Lessons learned? Wellington’s light cavalrymen in India after 1815
Nicholas Dunne-Lunch
The Shooting of Edward O'Finn, Carpio, 25 September 1811
10:45-11:15 / Coffee
Session 2 / Chair:
11:15-12:30 / Huw Davies
‘A wandering army’: tactical and operational development in the British army before the Peninsular War
Frederick Schneid
‘Sicily is everything, Gaeta is nothing’: the impact of British naval supremacy in the Mediterranean upon the Italian satellite states: 1806-1814
Plenary Session / Chair:
12:30-13:00 / Chris Woolgar
Thirty years with Wellington
13:00-14:00 / Lunch
15:00
(doors open
at 14:30) / A musical history of the French Wars: A concert of early nineteenth-century music related to the Napoleonic Wars performed by Professor David Owen Norris of the University of Southampton and soprano, Amanda Pitt. Turner Sims Concert Hall, Highfield Campus.
This is a ticketed event: those delegates who have booked a place will find their ticket in their delegate pack. The Highfield Campus is a 10-15 minute walk from Avenue. Please inform the Congress organisers by 11:15 should you wish to have a taxi booked.