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• Asa Briggs. The age of improvement, 1783-1867. London: Longman, 1979
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• George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron. The complete poetical works. Edited by Jerome McCann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980-93
• Nicholas Canny [et al]. (editors). The Oxford history of the British Empire. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1998-99
• Geoffrey Carnall, ‘Southey, Robert (1774–1843)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26056, accessed 18 May 2015]
• Alfred Cobban. A history of modern France: Volume 1, the old regime and the revolution, 1715-1799. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962
• Alfred Cobban. A history of modern France: Volume 2, from the first empire to the second republic, 1799-1871. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963
• Stephen England. Napoleon: a political life. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004
• Peter Friedman. ‘General Baron Gaspard Gourgaud: a survivor of St Helena’ [http://www.napoleon.org/en/reading_room/articles/files/477967.asp, accessed 24 April 2015]
• Norman Gash. ‘Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769-1852)’. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29001?docPos=3, accessed 9th April 2015]
• Christopher Hibbert. Waterloo: Napoleon’s last campaign. Ware: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1998
• Christopher Hibbert. Wellington: a personal history. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997
• Boyd Hilton. A mad, bad and dangerous people? England 1783-1846. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
• David Howarth. Waterloo: a near run thing. Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos: Windrush Press, 1997
• David McClay, Stephanie Breen, Katie Sambrook, Roderick Beaton and Christine Kenyon Jones. Byron and politics: ‘born for opposition’.  London: King’s College London, 2013
• National Army Museum, Waterloo 200. ‘Cavalry lance’ [http://www.nam.ac.uk/waterloo200/200-object/cavalry-lance/ accessed 28 April 2015]
• Robin Neillands. Wellington and Napoleon: clash of arms, 1807-1815. London, John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., 1994
• Harold Nicolson. The Congress of Vienna:  a study in allied unity, 1812-1822. London: Methuen, 1961
• Donald Read. Peterloo: the ‘massacre’ and its background. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1973
• D Reynolds, ‘FitzClarence, George Augustus Frederick, first earl of Munster (1794–1842)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9542, accessed 1 June 2015]
• J Holland Rose, AP Newton and EA Benians (editors). The Cambridge history of the British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1919-40
• ALF Schaumann. On the road with Wellington: the diary of a war commissary in the Peninsular campaigns. London: Heinemann, 1924
• Roland Thorne, ‘Stewart, Robert, Viscount Castlereagh and second marquess of Londonderry (1769–1822)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26507, accessed 18 May 2015]
• Brian E Vick. The Congress of Vienna: power and politics after Napoleon. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2014
• Charles Webster. The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815. London: G Bell & Sons, 1950
• Charles Webster. The foreign policy of Castlereagh, 1812-1815: Britain and the reconstruction of Europe. London: G Bell & Sons, 1931
• Reginald James White. Waterloo to Peterloo. London: Heinemann, 1957

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