Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem
The LRB Podcast
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The Sound of Music Tour in Paris
The idea is not to have a monument that tells you about what happened, but to have a place where you can feel and re imagine what happened. It leaves the understanding of waterloo completely open to the visitor. And that, of course, is of the essence with romantic history. We're certainly still ray like that in in lots of other areas, aren't wen? The the sound of music tour is exactly that. You stand where the various figures stood. That kind of tourism has been pretty well unbroken since waterloo ad.
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