Episode 45: Q1-1803 - The dying peace
1800. January… February… March… Three fateful months for the Hapsburgs, for Austria, and for the patchwork of territories east of the Rhine… In Switzerland the French impose a revised settlement in a ...
5 Mar 20251h 34min
Indian soldiers and the British Empire (w/Ravindra Rathee)
Ravindra Rathee's first book True To Their Salt wouldn't have come about without the extensive research he'd undertaken into the military career of his grandfather. The result is a fascinating study o...
26 Feb 202533min
Napoleon's Switzerland triumph, 1802-3 (w/Biancamaria Fontana)
Bonaparte's decision to intervene in Switzerland in 1802 after years of unrest with the French-imposed Helvetic Republic led to a return to the kind of localist, cantonal government which the Swiss ha...
19 Feb 202555min
Redrawing Germany's political map (w/ Michael Rowe)
Modern-day Germany was at a turning point in the Napoleonic period, with the French Revolutionary Wars prompting an enormous shake-up in which its various small-scale secular and ecclesiastical entiti...
12 Feb 202549min
Episode 44: Q4-1802 - The bloody quadrupeds
1802. October, November, December… Three months in which the full brutality of the French approach on Haiti becomes abundantly clear… Potential threats to British control of India are worrying Richard...
5 Feb 20251h 44min
Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul (w/ Alan Forrest)
What were Napoleon Bonaparte's biggest achievements during the Consulate period from 1799 to 1804? Prof Emeritus Alan Forrest of the University of York sizes up the greatest hits: ending the Revolutio...
22 Jan 20251h 11min
The Glorious First of June: Howe v Villaret-Joyeuse, 1 June 1794
Bernie Campbell is joined by Rachel Blackman-Rogers and Olivier Aranda for a deep dive - pun intended - into the Battle of the Glorious First of June and the first major fleet action of the French Rev...
15 Jan 20251h 8min
Hilary Mantel's A Place Of Greater Safety and the French Revolution (w/William Doyle)
(**spoiler alert below**)Hilary Mantel's novel A Place Of Greater Safety is, according to Oxford History of the French Revolution author William Doyle, one of the two greatest books about those turbul...
8 Jan 20251h 1min
