ABSTRACT

This paper considers a previously unpublished collection of writings relating to the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, fought in Belgium on 18 June 1815.^{Footnote11. The papers are referred to in a newspaper article by Anne Johnstone from 2015, which is primarily concerned with a later member of the Kerr family who fought at Gallipoli during the First World War. That article, in the Glasgow Herald, quotes eight sentences from Thomas Ker’s writings, but this paper is the first detailed discussion of them, and the first time that extended extracts have been published. https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13212030.from-waterloo-to-gallipoli-one-scots-family-story/.View all notes} The author of these documents, Thomas Ker, was a Scottish merchant living in Brussels at the time of the battle, and this discussion places his observations on the battlefield in the days following the famous encounter between Napoleon and Wellington in the context of accounts by civilian visitors published soon after the event (mostly between 1816 and 1817). These include works by Sir Walter Scott, Robert Hills, James Simpson, and, importantly also, women, with Charlotte Eaton, Georgiana Capel, and Anne Laura Thorold among them. These writings are used here to provide insight into the transformation of Waterloo from a scene of carnage to a popular tourist attraction, with a particular focus on the role of relic collection in this process.

摘要

本文考虑了之前未出版的关于 1815 年 6 月 18 日在比利时发生的滑铁卢战役后果的著作集。^{脚注11. Anne Johnstone 在 2015 年发表的一篇报纸文章中提到了这些论文，该文章主要涉及克尔家族后来在第一次世界大战期间在加里波利作战的一名成员。《格拉斯哥先驱报》上的那篇文章引用了托马斯·克尔著作中的八句话，但本文是对这些句子的首次详细讨论，也是首次发表扩展摘录。https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13212030.from-waterloo-to-gallipoli-one-scots-family-story/。查看所有笔记}这些文件的作者托马斯·克尔 (Thomas Ker) 是战斗发生时居住在布鲁塞尔的一位苏格兰商人，本文以平民的叙述为背景，将他在拿破仑与威灵顿著名相遇后几天的战场上进行了观察活动结束后不久（主要是 1816 年至 1817 年），访客发表了文章。其中包括沃尔特·斯科特爵士、罗伯特·希尔斯、詹姆斯·辛普森的作品，更重要的是，还有女性的作品，其中包括夏洛特·伊顿、乔治亚娜·卡佩尔和安妮·劳拉·索罗德。这里使用这些著作来深入了解滑铁卢从屠杀现场到受欢迎的旅游景点的转变，特别关注文物收藏在这一过程中的作用。