Author Archives: Ed_Podesta
Episode 2 – the Idea of Italy in 1815
Transcript no 2 – the idea of Italy in 1815 In today’s podcast we’re going to take a look at the ‘idea’ of Italy in 1815, what people living in the peninsula might have said if they’d been asked ‘what … Continue reading
Episode 1 – 1815, Why Start Here?
1815 is an important year in our course, and indeed in modern European History. It’s important because 1815 saw the end of the era of Napoleon I, and in Italy, the ‘restoration’ of various ‘states’. In today’s podcast we’re going … Continue reading
Italian Unification
I’m pleased to say that I’ve been writing a master script for a podcast to appear here in September (2010). I’ve written-up events until Cavour’s work as Prime Minister of Piedmont in the 1850s (having got bogged down in the … Continue reading
What was so scary about Napoleon?
The spelling in this video is dreadful, but it gives you a good idea as to why the ghost of Napoleon often seems to haunt the powers of Europe after 1815