I just thought I’d give a plug for the other show David and I are doing - The Biography Show - which has a new episode up about Helen Of Troy. Did she really exist? Or is completely fictional? Find out our thoughts on the show!
By the way, I was prompted to write this […]

Well, not quite, but listener Arni Sigurdsson from Iceland found this website which explains how Napoleon was important to the development of the modern computer. According to the site:
Napoleon’s troops in Egypt buy shawls and start a fashion craze.
In Europe the shawls get made on automated, perforated-paper control looms.
This gives an American engineer Herman […]

Well as you know, David and I have been threatening to inflict another podcast series on you for a while and I’m happy to announce that one of them is finally here!
And it isn’t the one we were expecting to launch first.
Introducing - The Biography Show.
The idea behind The Biography Show is […]

After the International Napoleonic Society conference that’s being held in Corsica in July, I intend on spending a few days in Paris (July 12 - 15). If anyone out there has recommendations on affordable accommodation, please let me know.

Okay, I’ve worked out why the video is coming down in the audio feed. If that happened to you, and you didn’t want the video, my apologies. Here’s how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
The reason it happened (I think) is that the iTunes feed on the main Napoleon page points to our […]

One of my sisters gave me this gift for Christmas: “Campfires of Napoleon”, by Henry Clay Watson and published 1854 by Porter Coates in Philadelphia. Watson, a journalist and editor by profession, wrote the book when he was only 23.

It’s a very pro-Napoleon book written, I suspect, for high school kids a mere 33 […]

Dec 26 is Mr Markham’s birthday so please send him your birthday wishes. Rather than buy him a present, why not buy someone else a copy of one of his books as a gift? I’m sure he’d appreciate that.
When I originally had the idea to start a podcast about Napoleon, I thought about doing […]

Hey folks - I would REALLY appreciate it if a few (thousand) of you could pop on over to the TPN 2007 Survey (link: http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/survey) and spend ten minutes filling it out. We need to collect some anonymous data on our audience demographics to use in discussions with advertisers. Thanks!

While I was a podcasting conference in Perth (that’s in Western Australia, the most remote city on the planet) last weekend, Nick Hodge from Microsoft Australia interviewed me on my passion for Napoleon. I thought I would share it with you. Apologies for the fact that I appear to be eating a mint at the […]

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As our regular listeners know, for some time now David and I have been thinking about doing a new podcast series in addition to the current Napoleon 101 series. One of the challenges we have with producing a new series, however, is time. Although David has recently retired from full-time teaching, we are […]