Understanding the Field of Waterloo: Viewing Waterloo and the Narrative Strategies of the Panorama Programmes
Journal: BGRO - Business, Governance and Religious Organisations Repository
Year: 2017

The season of the Waterloo panoramas began in March 1816, about nine months after the battle on 18 June 18156. The Waterloo panoramas were exhibited in London as well as across the country. Focusing on the finale on the field of Waterloo and highlighting the human cost of the French Napoleonic wars, they brought the battle to life as late as 1842. This article, which is on the viewing experience inside the panorama, examines narrative techniques used in the surviving panorama programmes in order