Also, that 1803 pendant, the chap with the pitchfork - that could be on a Pro-Brexit poster from 2016, blimey...
I've just written something re. Napoleon and in digging, I was looking at British anti-Napoleon propaganda at the time, which was frankly...appalling? I mean, the London newspapers were publishing the most outrageous lies about him - plus, they intercepted his love letters to his wife (who was as increasingly cool and aloof with him as he was passionate and insecure-sounding to her) and the papers just absolutely went to town with them, full-page spreads of mockery. I can understand a lot of that volunteer patriotism: it's because the government portrayed him as someone every Brit could ridicule and hate. Not that Napoloen was great or anything, but- yikes. So easy with the distance of history to forget the power of whipped-up public fervour...
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That is a delightful logo. :)
Also, that 1803 pendant, the chap with the pitchfork - that could be on a Pro-Brexit poster from 2016, blimey...
I've just written something re. Napoleon and in digging, I was looking at British anti-Napoleon propaganda at the time, which was frankly...appalling? I mean, the London newspapers were publishing the most outrageous lies about him - plus, they intercepted his love letters to his wife (who was as increasingly cool and aloof with him as he was passionate and insecure-sounding to her) and the papers just absolutely went to town with them, full-page spreads of mockery. I can understand a lot of that volunteer patriotism: it's because the government portrayed him as someone every Brit could ridicule and hate. Not that Napoloen was great or anything, but- yikes. So easy with the distance of history to forget the power of whipped-up public fervour...