William Howard Russell witnessed the final re-capture of Lucknow (1858). In 1861 Russell went to Washington, returning to England in 1863. In July 1865 he sailed on the "Great Eastern" to document the laying of the Atlantic Cable and wrote a book about the voyage with color illustrations by Robert Dudley. He published diaries of his time in India, the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, where he describes the warm welcome given him by English-speaking Prussian generals such as Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal. Russell later accused fellow war correspondent Nicholas Woods of the "Morning Herald" of lying in his articles about
Russell Howard involved him and his mother Ninette travelling through America. On 29 November 2016, it was announced that Howard would write and star in a 14-part weekly comedy series entitled "The Russell Howard Hour" on Sky 1 in 2017, as part of a two-year deal with Sky. The series began on 21 September 2017. A show from his 2007 "Adventures" tour was released on DVD on 17 November 2008, under the title "Russell Howard Live". The show on the DVD was recorded at The Bloomsbury Theatre. Howard started touring for his show "Dingledodies" in September 2008 and played various dates through