• The Final Curtain
    Aug 17 2024

    If you're hearing this, you are subscribed to the wrong version of the Napoleonic Wars Podcast. Please unsubscribe from this version of the show, and then search for The Napoleonic Wars Podcast' on you preferred podcasting platform. We'd love to reconnect with you.

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    2 mins
  • The End of the Podcast?
    May 25 2024

    Now, Napoleonicists! Now is your time!

    Spotify have gutted the podcast, disconnecting me from half the listeners.

    This is how you can help me try to rebuild from the ashes.

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    8 mins
  • Waterloo By Air: Trailer
    May 22 2024

    How do we separate Napoleonic myth from reality? Why were some written out of the story? Over 200 years later, why does Waterloo still matter? Join me this summer on the podcast's Youtube Channel for a documentary on the battle, like you've never seen before

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    2 mins
  • Waterloo Around the World
    Feb 18 2024

    Dr Luke Reynolds talks about how Waterloo celebrations were spread across the British Empire, and how Waterloo Day became an excuse for a boozing session.

    Get 30% off Who Owned Waterloo at Oxford University Press by using code AAFLYG6

    Twitter: @lureynol | @zwhitehistory

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Napoleon: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
    Jan 1 2024

    Professor Beatrice de Graaf, and Professor Alexander Mikaberidze join Dr Zack White to discuss the life, legacy and complexities of remembering Napoleon Bonaparte.

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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • Waterloo: The Battle on the Big Screen
    Dec 10 2023

    Trenches on the battlefield and the Prussians arriving from the wrong direction are nothing new...


    Professor Tony Pollard joins me to talk about more than a century of the Battle of Waterloo being depicted on the big screen. We talk about common tropes, the way in which portrayals of the battle have developed, and some of the challenges to production.


    Extended version with clips from the various films available on youtube.


    Support Waterloo Uncovered at: https://waterloouncovered.com/


    Cinema and History: The encyclopedia of History Films.

    https://www.hervedumont.ch/page.php?id=fr4


    Napoleon and the Pope (1897)

    https://youtu.be/_jf_lIhWsJk?si=CPT-oxo0s544l7mk

    Napoleon (1909) Library of Congress

    https://www.loc.gov/item/mp73112700/

    Incidents in the Life of Napoleon and Josephine (1909)

    https://youtu.be/zmnHQbrh3KY?si=RtrJ5IhDPrNaTObM

    Waterloo at 24.53

    The Battle of Waterloo (1913)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1SZnKFuvw0

    The Iron Duke (1934) NOT ON YOUTUBE

    Campo Di Maggio (The Hundred Days) 1934/5 NOT ON YOUTUBE (103 min) Dir by Giovachinno Forzano


    Hundert Tage (Hundred Days) Dir Franz Wenzler (1hr 25?)

    The Nazi Napoleon – Waterloo from around 9.36

    21min20 clip https://youtu.be/HfTkNHp0v2k?si=3L2MaeLF-jNrOfmS

    Napoleon (1955)

    https://youtu.be/vRsg9o9tr5s?si=x4SddxtBoPQBCAo4

    Waterloo 1.42

    Austerlitz 1960 Abel Gance

    https://youtu.be/xK_I5IwQLMw?si=3Dlxxdy6cjHTHopK

    Waterloo 1970

    https://youtu.be/3DcWJrzK0wU?si=_ftJ-JwKLapfMVMv

    The Day of the Locust (1975) The Stage collapses

    https://youtu.be/jJ_p_xhMEvU?si=7zIukRCn6-aRdwkl

    Napoleon (French TV series 2002)

    Waterloo 53.38

    https://youtu.be/i_E_TfWu5uU?si=SFAfbemaCDpWU6ru

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Napoleon Movie: Ridley Scott Reviewed
    Dec 3 2023

    *SPOILER, STRONG LANGUAGE & EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING*

    Sam Jolley, Charlotte White, Josh Provan and Kit Chapman (University of Falmouth) join me to dissect the movie as a piece of film making. We largely park the historical inaccuracies to explore the real reasons why this film has proven such a disappointment with fans of the period.

    Twitter: @s_jolley | @restorationcake | @landofhistory

    Web: https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/staff/dr-kit-chapman

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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • The Siege of Pensacola
    Nov 28 2023

    One of the largest sieges of the American War of Independence

    is far from common knowledge. Josh Provan explains all following the release of his new book on the Siege of Pensacola.


    Buy the book: https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/every-hazard-and-fatigue-the-siege-of-pensacola-1781.php

    Twitter: @zwhitehistory | @landofhistory


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    1 hr and 24 mins