Beating Napoleon at Eton: Violence, Sport and Manliness in England's Public Schools, 1783-1815
(2014)
Journal Article
Waite, K. (2014). Beating Napoleon at Eton: Violence, Sport and Manliness in England's Public Schools, 1783-1815. Cultural and Social History, 11(3), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.2752/147800414x13983595303390
Despite the popular aphorism that ‘the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton’, historians have been slow to appreciate the value Georgian elites vested in their public schools and public school sport. In fact, the stereotype of the... Read More about Beating Napoleon at Eton: Violence, Sport and Manliness in England's Public Schools, 1783-1815.