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The Napoleonic Wars Podcast

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? What was his legacy on history? And why, more than 200 years later, does the conflict which he gave his name to still matter? Join award-winning Napoleonic historians Dr Zack White, Dr Luke Reynolds, and Liam Telfer as they host Europe's leading show devoted to the American War of Independence, French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. From interviews with leading researchers, to deep dive debates on some of the big questions, this show is ideal for those who want to start building their knowledge or deepen their understanding of the period.

The Legacy of Waterloo

93 hours 5 mins; July 11, 2023

British sieges of the Peninsular War

88 hours 22 mins; June 03, 2023

Napoleon's Spy - The Russia Campaign & Ben Kane's New Novel

78 hours 43 mins; May 24, 2023

Greatest 'What If' in Napoleonic History - Part 1

83 hours 50 mins; May 14, 2023

Ending the War - The Horrible Peace

88 hours 48 mins; May 07, 2023

Peninsular War Episode 3: Santander's Story

67 hours 12 mins; April 13, 2023

The Marshals' Wives' Tale

97 hours 6 mins; March 07, 2023

Uproar - Satire, Scandal, Caricatures and the genius of Gilray - with Alice Loxton

66 hours 30 mins; February 25, 2023

The Greatest Statesman (Part 1)

146 hours 23 mins; January 28, 2023

The Legacy of the War of 1812

98 hours 38 mins; December 30, 2022

Impressment and the War of 1812

69 hours 6 mins; December 29, 2022

Napoleon - The Reckoning

99 hours 55 mins; December 24, 2022

Women in the War of 1812

67 hours 32 mins; December 22, 2022

Naval Discipline and the War of 1812

98 hours 40 mins; December 15, 2022

Most significant battle of the War of 1812

109 hours 18 mins; December 06, 2022

West India Regiments in the War of 1812

62 hours 28 mins; November 29, 2022

An Announcement: New Beginnings & Exciting Opportunities

12 mins; November 26, 2022

Native Americans in the War of 1812

82 hours 28 mins; November 12, 2022

China in the Napoleonic Era

99 hours 50 mins; October 15, 2022

Napoleonic France: A State of Terror?

73 hours 48 mins; October 08, 2022

Bernadotte - Ungrateful, not a traitor

88 hours 4 mins; October 01, 2022

War & Public Opinion in Britain, France & The Netherlands

111 hours 45 mins; September 28, 2022

Kutuzov - The 'Outfoxer' of Napoleon

104 hours 13 mins; September 24, 2022

Attitudes to sexual misconduct in the British Army

42 mins; September 17, 2022

War Graves: The NRWGC and honouring the war dead

95 hours 32 mins; August 30, 2022

MacDonald: The Forgotten Marshal?

70 hours 8 mins; August 27, 2022

Davout: The Iron Marshal

74 hours 26 mins; July 26, 2022

The Greatest Musician of the Napoleonic Era

114 hours 3 mins; July 13, 2022

Who owned Waterloo?

107 hours 11 mins; June 18, 2022

Napoleon's Great Scapegoat: Grouchy's Waterloo

88 hours 2 mins; June 16, 2022

Touring the Waterloo Battlefield

78 hours 0 mins; June 09, 2022

The Maligned Majority: German auxiliary troops in the British Army during the Flanders Campaign 1793-5

85 hours 43 mins; May 25, 2022

The Most Irritating Myth of the Napoleonic Era

249 hours 12 mins; May 16, 2022

Not just incompetent officers?: The British Army in Flanders 1793-95

85 hours 24 mins; May 05, 2022

Armies and Enemies of Napoleon

90 hours 51 mins; April 27, 2022

Mythbusting Wellington's vilified foreign unit: the Chasseurs Britanniques

82 hours 11 mins; April 20, 2022

British officers in the Portuguese army

75 hours 2 mins; April 08, 2022

The Great Waterloo Diorama

69 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2022

Napoleonic Boardgaming

80 hours 24 mins; March 27, 2022

Playing the Napoleonic War Game

52 mins; March 22, 2022

Napoleonic Miniature Wargaming

80 hours 27 mins; March 17, 2022

The Greatest Wargame

119 hours 53 mins; March 12, 2022

Wargaming the Battle of Waterloo

85 hours 25 mins; March 06, 2022

Retelling Napoleon's 1812 and 1813 campaigns

69 hours 4 mins; February 22, 2022

Wellington's Portuguese Army: The Forgotten Evidence

82 hours 13 mins; February 15, 2022

The Birth of Science in the Napoleonic Era

64 hours 44 mins; February 06, 2022

Most significant woman of the Napoleonic era

117 hours 7 mins; January 29, 2022

Greatest Film of the Napoleonic Era

234 hours 27 mins; January 11, 2022

The state of Napoleonic History

107 hours 57 mins; December 28, 2021

Most Misunderstood Napoleonic Person

112 hours 21 mins; December 21, 2021

The Battle of Quatre Bras

78 hours 14 mins; December 07, 2021

Wives, Whores & Amazons - Women in Napoleonic era Armies

72 hours 14 mins; November 23, 2021

Crime and Punishment in Wellington's Army 1810-11

42 mins; November 09, 2021

Most Significant Naval Figure of the Napoleonic Era

90 hours 47 mins; October 29, 2021

Most significant naval event

80 hours 41 mins; October 24, 2021

The Battle of Trafalgar: Mythbusted

70 hours 25 mins; October 20, 2021

Admiral Pulteney Malcolm - A forgotten, gifted Admiral

64 hours 5 mins; October 16, 2021

Napoleon's Admiral's - Boney's Boys on the high seas

89 hours 3 mins; October 13, 2021

The Naval War of 1812

63 hours 40 mins; October 09, 2021

Pirates - with Jamie Goodall

42 mins; October 05, 2021

The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity

92 hours 33 mins; September 28, 2021

The Politics of War

112 hours 30 mins; September 14, 2021

Wellington the great debate

132 hours 16 mins; August 29, 2021

In the Duke's shadow? Wellington's Brigade Commanders

105 hours 4 mins; August 27, 2021

Wellington's Generals - Nosey's Boys in Spain

90 hours 4 mins; August 24, 2021

Wellington in India - Shaping a promising career?

56 mins; August 21, 2021

The Women in Wellington's World

75 hours 5 mins; August 19, 2021

Wellington's Way of Waging War

56 mins; August 17, 2021

Wellington's Greatest Victory

116 hours 47 mins; August 10, 2021

Wellington - Life and Legacy

52 mins; August 04, 2021

Waterloo Witnesses with Kristine Hughes Patrone

69 hours 27 mins; July 28, 2021

The Greatest Novels on the Napoleonic Era

115 hours 19 mins; July 14, 2021

The Second Mahratta War (1803)

98 hours 37 mins; June 30, 2021

The Sword and the Spirit

80 hours 54 mins; June 18, 2021

Waterloo Books

27 mins; June 17, 2021

Waterloo through soldiers eyes

92 hours 27 mins; June 16, 2021

Greatest Painting of the Napoleonic era

84 hours 29 mins; June 02, 2021

To flog, or not to flog: Crime and Punishment in the British Army

36 mins; May 19, 2021

The Battle of Fuentes D'Onoro: Wellington Blunders

60 hours 59 mins; May 03, 2021

The Greatest Invention of the Napoleonic Age

57 mins; April 21, 2021

Anti war sentiment in Britain and the poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

73 hours 20 mins; April 07, 2021

Voices from Ireland

89 hours 19 mins; March 31, 2021

Irish Attitudes to the British Army

57 mins; March 24, 2021

Wellington's Right Hand Man?: Marshal William Carr Beresford

126 hours 41 mins; March 17, 2021

Wellington's Irish Army

57 mins; March 10, 2021

A Laboratory of Empire? Ireland, Britain and the 1798 Rebellion

71 hours 14 mins; March 03, 2021

Breaking the News: The British Press and the Peninsular War

43 mins; February 17, 2021

Wellington's Forgotten Riflemen - The 5th Battalion 60th Regiment

60 hours 30 mins; February 03, 2021

Napoleon's Means of Motivating his Men

56 mins; January 20, 2021

Chatham, Walcheren, and 'The Nutter' Popham

65 hours 53 mins; January 06, 2021

From Cintra to Salamanca: Shifting Confidence in Wellington's Peninsular Army

35 mins; December 16, 2020

Reviews Special - Wellington & His Army

31 mins; December 09, 2020

The Great Waterloo Controversy & the 52nd Foot

74 hours 37 mins; December 02, 2020

Napoleon's Marshals - Boney's Boys in Spain (Part 2)

57 mins; November 29, 2020

Napoleon's Marshals: Boney's Boys in Spain - Part 1

88 hours 45 mins; November 25, 2020

Napoleon's Way of Waging Peace

54 mins; November 22, 2020

Napoleon's Greatest Battle - Part 2

68 hours 8 mins; November 18, 2020

Napoleon the Great Debate

105 hours 58 mins; November 15, 2020

Napoleon's Greatest Battle - Part 1

57 mins; November 12, 2020

Napoleon's Way of Waging War

41 mins; November 08, 2020

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