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1820 to 1820 opens onto 1 life, 1 place story, and 1 named historical windows.
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Early Modern
1750 to 1825
Private lives inside state collapse, military ambition, and the remaking of legitimacy.
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15 place stories active in the same years
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1820 - Longwood House, Saint Helena
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Exile, legacy control, and command surviving defeat.
Exiled to a rock in the Atlantic, a fallen emperor dictates the version of events his enemies will never be able to answer.
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1820 - Longwood House, Saint Helena
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1820 - Longwood House, Saint Helena
Napoleon Bonaparte stands at 1820 - Longwood House, Saint Helena, with connected routes through neighbouring lives, places, and historical pressure.
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1825 - Monticello
Reputation, contradiction, debt, and the politics of being made quotable.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Monticello, an architect of liberty confronts the contradictions he built into the foundations of a nation.
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1955 - Hyde Park Gate, London
war-and-command
A contrasting life shaped by war and command.
After the war, after the applause, after the second stroke — a prime minister reckons with what victory actually cost.
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1814 - Malmaison
Displacement, memory, and a life being arranged for other people's comfort.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Malmaison, with Europe rearranging itself, an empress who was discarded sets down what Napoleon never acknowledged.
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1819 - Heathfield Hall, Handsworth
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
With his hands no longer steady enough for a compass, the engineer whose steam engine powered the Industrial Revolution sets down what the machines concealed.
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1830 - Santa Marta
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
With the sea air of Santa Marta failing to do what battle and revolution could not, the liberator of five nations confronts the continent he freed and the chaos it became.
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1831 - Breslau
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In Breslau, with sickness in the stairwell, the theorist of war reflects on the distance between what battle teaches and what nations choose to learn.
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1825 - Monticello
Reputation, contradiction, debt, and the politics of being made quotable.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Monticello, an architect of liberty confronts the contradictions he built into the foundations of a nation.
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1955 - Hyde Park Gate, London
war-and-command
A contrasting life shaped by war and command.
After the war, after the applause, after the second stroke — a prime minister reckons with what victory actually cost.
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1814 - Malmaison
Displacement, memory, and a life being arranged for other people's comfort.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Malmaison, with Europe rearranging itself, an empress who was discarded sets down what Napoleon never acknowledged.
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1819 - Heathfield Hall, Handsworth
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
With his hands no longer steady enough for a compass, the engineer whose steam engine powered the Industrial Revolution sets down what the machines concealed.
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