by cameron | Feb 17, 2009 | General
Many thanks to Ryan Crombie who discovered an online version of Stanley Kubrick’s 1969 Napoleon screenplay! As we discussed on the show, the film was unfortunately never produced, in part because Sergei Bondarchuk’s film WATERLOO (1970) was a commercial...
by cameron | Feb 13, 2009 | General
I found a link to this essay by Emerson on Tim Ferriss’ blog (the 4 Hour Work Week guy). It’s a really great essay. Here’s the final paragraph as a teaser: It was not Bonaparte’s fault. He did all that in him lay to live and thrive without...
by cameron | Feb 9, 2009 | Napoleon store
One of our listeners asked me today where to find the Napoleon t-shirts for sale so I thought I should give another plug for our shop! Find t-shirts, coffee mugs, books and DVDs, all about your favourite Emperor!
by cameron | Feb 4, 2009 | General
If you visit the Napoleon 101 homepage, on the right-hand sidebar you’ll see options to add Cameron to Twitter and Facebook and also a Members section! You can use your Google ID to login and see other members. I’m not that any of these things actually add...
by cameron | Jan 28, 2009 | Images
A big shout out to listener John Holloway who writes: Monsieur Reilly, I recently discovered that I could acquire high resolution images of various artworks from Artstor.org. Considering my love of Napoleonic imagery I could hardly resist finding myself a detailed...
by cameron | Jan 21, 2009 | Podcast, Premium Podcasts
Breaking away from talking to historians about Napoleon, today we have as our guest Australian businessman and political powerbroker, Michael Kroger. Michael joins us to discuss his fascination with Napoleon, which extends to having 5 floors of his Melbourne mansion...
by cameron | Dec 26, 2008 | Images
Today (Dec 26) is David’s birthday! I would tell you his actual age but I wouldn’t want to get myself into trouble. Please raise your glasses in a toast – to the President!
by cameron | Dec 25, 2008 | Images
My Xmas present from my awesome little sister Anita today was a newspaper called the “Weekly Aurora” from Pennsylvania and dated September 22, 1815. The back two pages, in a section called “Latest Foreign Intelligence”, contain detailed news of...
by cameron | Dec 22, 2008 | Images
In case you didn’t notice, we’ve been down for a couple of days. As you can read on the TPN blog, it was due to a hard drive failure on one of the servers. We’re in the process of re-building and it might take a few more days. At the moment...
by cameron | Dec 17, 2008 | Premium Podcasts
Continuing our series of chats with eminent Napoleonic scholars, today our guest is Rafe Blaufarb, Ben Weider Eminent Scholar and Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. Dr. Blaufarb is a specialist in Revolutionary...
