Scotland's Waterloo

The Scots triumphed at Waterloo – as painters, subjects for painters, diarists, writers and poets. Scotland's Waterloo showcases the different ways that illustrious Scots documented and responded to the battle.

Owen Dudley Edwards starts with the painters and their patrons, before moving on to the fascinating eyewitness accounts of Scottish soldiers. He finally introduces the voices of some more famous Scots who experienced the battle first-hand, including Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dr Robert Knox and Arthur Conan Doyle.