Battle of Waterloo: Local legacies 200 years later

Why is our region, our city, a university, a public library and more named after a tiny farming village in Belgium? Why does the name Wellington appear in towns and on street signs all over Ontario? How did a bloody battle 200 years ago capture the popular imagination?

Join four professors from the Faculty of Arts at Waterloo Public Library for a lively discussion of the historical event and its many legacies both far away and right here in our own back yard. 

​The Field of Waterloo (1817) by J.M.W Turner. ©The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

The panel features Professor Kate Lawson (English), Professor and Dean of Arts, Doug Peers (History), Professor Julia Roberts (History), and Professor Lynne Taylor (History).