Battlefield despatches: Piedmont, Q2-1796
In April 1796, a 26-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte transformed a demoralized, ragged French army into a lightning-fast strike force that knocked the Kingdom of Sardinia out of the war in just over two we...
17 Joulu 20251h 18min
The Empire’s last act: Ritual, rivalry, and the end of old Germany (w/ Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger)
A conversation with Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Professor Emerita of Early Modern History at the University of Munster and Rector of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Germany is becoming inc...
6 Joulu 20251h
The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Mapping the great unknown
A conversation about a legendary moment in United States history between James Quint, Director of the Old Cowtown Museum in Wichita, Kansas, and Peter Kastor, Professor of History and American Culture...
26 Marras 20251h 17min
Episode 50: Q2-1804 - The imperial dignity
1804. April... May... June... three months in which the British are facing an uphill struggle in building another coalition against the French... The Revolution takes its final step as Napoleon Bonapa...
15 Marras 20251h 35min
ADAM ZAMOYSKI on the Napoleonic soap opera
"It was like a soap opera," Adam says of the Congress of Vienna near the end of this interview episode. That just about sums up his unique perspective on the whole Napoleonic period, as reflected thro...
8 Marras 20251h 2min
Power plays in the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia and imperial expansion (w/ Giorgi Tchkadua)
Giorgi Tchkadua of Ilia State University in Georgia, PhD candidate under our own Alexander Mikaberidze, helps unpack the multiplicity of riddles which makes up the fascinatingly complex power dynamics...
25 Loka 20251h 13min
Ready for war: France in 1804-5 (w/ Alan Forrest)
Prof Emeritus Alan Forrest of the University of York, biographer of Napoleon, is back in conversation with Alex Stevenson to give his appraisal of imperial France as it was in 1804-05. Featuring - Fra...
15 Loka 202546min
Episode 49: Q1-1804 - Conspiracists and conspirators
1804. January… February… March… Three months in which Napoleon acts ruthlessly by abducting and killing a royalist figurehead... Both Haiti and Louisiana face momentous questions about their future......
5 Loka 20251h 54min
