William Wordsworth: The Revolution betrayed

William Wordsworth: The Revolution betrayed

Assassinating Napoleon Bonaparte, it turns out, was on the minds of lots of people frustrated with how the French Revolution was playing out. Off the back of the Infernal Machine attempt on the First Consul's life we've got an episode here about William Wordsworth, that most revered of English Romantic poets, who was so frustrated by the unfulfilled promise of the Revolution that he dreamed of assassinating Bonaparte in his poem The Prelude. To unpick Wordsworth's direct experience of life in Paris in the early 1790s and his subsequent frustrations with French politics - frustrations which remained firmly locked up in his head at the time - it's great to welcome Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English Kenneth Richard Johnston to the podcast. Ken's biography The Hidden Wordsworth revealed how the young, radical WW was a strikingly different figure from the more conservative character he was to assume later in life.

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1805-15 preview: The Napoleonic Wars

1805-15 preview: The Napoleonic Wars

With the relaunch period drawing to a close the time is now upon us, finally, when this podcast about the Napoleonic period actually gets to talk actually properly about the actual Napoleonic Wars. In...

16 Sep 1h 4min

1804 recap: Imperial tensions

1804 recap: Imperial tensions

Our recap episodes, which offer a synthesis of our 1792-1804 coverage one year at a time, have reached 1804 - the year in which France gets an emperor once again, and Europe gets an imperial-sized pro...

7 Sep 53min

Scenes from a Napoleon movie (screenplay wrap-up, pt2/2)

Scenes from a Napoleon movie (screenplay wrap-up, pt2/2)

It is with a mixture of great embarrassment at my own over-acting and guilt at such outrageous self-indulgence that I, Alex Stevenson, presenter of the Napoleonic Quarterly, provide you, the poor suff...

29 Aug 1h 20min

We wrote a Napoleon movie! (screenplay wrap-up pt1/2)

We wrote a Napoleon movie! (screenplay wrap-up pt1/2)

This mini-episode unveils the end product from our Napoleon movie discussions: an actual first draft of a screenplay which tells the story of Bonaparte's rise to power. It's now available on Patreon, ...

22 Aug 14min

1803 recap: Against the odds

1803 recap: Against the odds

Our recap episodes, which offer a synthesis of our 1792-1804 coverage one year at a time, have reached 1803 - a year in which peace between France and Britain collapses, and the cause of Haitian indep...

12 Aug 53min

1802 recap: Haiti's fight for freedom

1802 recap: Haiti's fight for freedom

Our recap episodes, which offer a synthesis of our 1792-1804 coverage one year at a time, have reached 1802 - a year in which the French mission to recapture Saint-Domingue combines deception and brut...

6 Aug 59min

1801 recap: Making war and making peace

1801 recap: Making war and making peace

Our recap episodes, which offer a synthesis of our 1792-1804 coverage one year at a time, have reached 1801 - a year in which Britain and France make peace, despite a widening canvas of war spreading ...

30 Jul 48min

Power without dignity: Napoleon's Brumaire sacrifice (screenplay plotting, mins 105-120)

Power without dignity: Napoleon's Brumaire sacrifice (screenplay plotting, mins 105-120)

In the eighth and final 15 minutes of our screenplay treatment, Napoleon really is trying to get this one last job done by completing the Brumaire coup. But his bid for his ultimate goal requires an u...

22 Jul 1h 1min

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