Episode 39: Q3-1801 - Bargaining chips
1801. July... August... September... Three months in which the British mount an opposed amphibious landing against French forces in Egypt... on Saint Domingue Toussaint Louverture promulgates a consti...
1 Aug 20241h 41min
Strategic insights: The Black Sea, then and now
Rachel Blackman-Rogers is joined by contemporary Black Sea maritime scholar Prof Deborah Sanders of Kings College London to discuss the history and evolution of Black Sea Navies, the historical signif...
27 Jul 20241h 3min
MARK LAWRENCE on Spain's 'Black Legend'
Spain's story during the Napoleonic period is an Atlantic one, as Dr Mark Lawrence of the University of Kent has pointed out. Fresh from recording on the War of the Oranges, which you can hear in epis...
17 Jul 202442min
The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801: Fischer v Nelson
Rachel Blackman-Rogers joins Alex Stevenson to discuss the First Battle of Copenhagen - featuring some tricky navigation, the Royal Navy's superior bludgeoning rate of firepower, some brutal diplomacy...
10 Jul 202448min
Episode 38: Q2-1801 - Nelson's blind eye
1801. April... May... June... Three months in which Horatio Nelson pulverises the Danish fleet at Copenhagen... Napoleon Bonaparte turns his ire on the pro-British Portuguese... and war breaks out bet...
3 Jul 20241h 33min
Pitt's dilemmas: British politics in the 1790s
While France was thrown into chaos by the revolution, the political situation in Britain wasn't exactly calm either. Bernie Campbell sat down with Jacquelin Reiter and Neil Gregory Howe to talk about ...
27 Jun 202453min
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 ...
22 Jun 202453min
Malta: At the crossroads of the Napoleonic era
Liam Gauci, Curator at the Malta Maritime Museum in Valletta, joins Dr Rachel Blackman-Rogers to discuss the fascinating history of his very special island. This episode is sponsored by Heritage Malt...
13 Jun 202448min
