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 Des 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 20251h 54min
Battlefield despatches: Dego, Q2-1796
April 1796 - time for another critical chapter in the young Napoleon Bonaparte's legendary Italian campaign, brought to you once again by our Battlefield Despatches dream team. Clemens Bemmann present...
24 Sep 20251h 36min
