Barry Barker and Peter Seddon jointly curated this exhibition at Nîmes Musée des Beaux Arts (Nov 2007-Feb 2008). Produced with the assistance of the Museum director and curator, Pascal Trarieux, it was titled Tête-à-Tête and based on extensive research by Peter Seddon into the historiography of stories about Charles 1st and Cromwell. It was based around a painting in the Museum, Paul Delaroche’s Cromwell looking at the corpse of Charles 1st in his coffin, 1831. Using wall text, associated objects and video projections, the exhibition, with its Pompey red walls, reflected on the different revolutions of Britain and France and the decapitation of both Charles and Cromwell who after his death in 1658 was posthumously executed in 1660. The two video projections (one based on a photograph of Cromwell’s head taken in the 1950s in the collection of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, the other on an old engraving found in the Tangye archive in the Museum of London) were produced with the input and technical expertise of the Irish digital artist Michèal O’Connell. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue/book of essays in both French and English (see selected publications tab above).