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Patreon newsletter #14
🕑 Added 2024-09-13 16:00:18 +0000 UTCDear Patrons,
Welcome to newsletter number 14, this edition with a special merch announcement and a WW2-themed cool history thing...
Napoleon Calendar 2025
We're delighted to announce the release of the Epic History 2025 Napoleonic Calendar! We've put this together with our many loyal Napoleonic fans in mind - it features 12 iconic paintings and more than 500 anniversaries, including battles, other major events and every Marshal's birthday.
You can buy one here: https://epic-history-tv-merch-shop.creator-spring.com/listing/epic-history-napoleon-calendar?product=2440
Every Patreon supporter received a merch shop discount code at signup, so if you're purchasing a calendar, don't forget to use yours! (Message us if you can't find it).
IMPORTANT NOTE: calendars must be ordered by 23rd September to guarantee delivery by the New Year. This is due to production and shipping lead-in times, which are unfortunately out of our hands.
AND if ancient history is more your thing, we have another new merch shop addition - 'The Battles of Belisarius' map, hand-drawn by Epic History viewer Jesse Kennedy.
Our series consultant Professor David Parnell shared this on social media, and we liked it so much, we asked Jesse if we could put it in the shop. Particularly loving the use of Procopius quotes dotted around the map!
Production Updates
No new previews to share this week, but rest assured, we are hard at work on:
Voices of the Peninsular War (ETA 2 weeks)
The Battle of Marengo (ETA 3 weeks)
The Battle of Trafalgar (ETA 7 weeks?)
Wold War Two (ETA TBC)
... and other projects to be announced shortly.
One Cool History Thing
This week the Epic History team went on an outing to Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, which many of you will know as the heart of the UK's WW2 codebreaking operations.
We were joined by channel narrator Charles Nove, who has a big personal connection to the site - Charles's mum, a talented French and German linguist, was recruited to work in Hut 3, translating intercepted messages!
While the achievements of the men and women who worked at Bletchley are now famous - and celebrated in films like Enigma and The Imitation Game - for decades after the war, their immense contribution was completely unacknowledged. The people who worked here simply returned to civilian life, and swore never to tell anyone 'what they did in the war'.
The secrets were eventually revealed in the 1970s, and the site is now a fantastic museum, explaining the pioneering and vital work that was done here. You can walk through the old manor house where it all began, as well as many of the hastily assembled 'huts' that sprang up across the grounds as the operation grew. Many have been restored with period furniture and equipment, with audio recordings and projections to take you right back to the 1940s.
The most famous work at Bletchley involved efforts to crack the German Enigma codes and intercept vital intelligence. The exhibition that takes you through this process was undoubtedly the highlight of our visit. In Hut 11A you are introduced to the Enigma machines and the billions of possible outcomes they create, before learning how brilliant mathematicians such as Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman set out to break the codes, with the help of the Bombe machines (seen below). I think we were all left in awe at the scale of these linguistic, mathematical and engineering feats, achieved under enormous pressure, and which had such an important impact on the war.
A great day out, which also provided some inspiration and useful information for our upcoming WW2 series! We'd highly recommend to all.
That's all for this newsletter. We'll be back with more news and updates in a couple of weeks, and thank you for your support!
Toby
Comments
Jonah Winkleman
I ordered a calendar a while ago but it was recently cancelled, do you know why?
TankerBricks
Just ordered my calendar. Excited to get it!
Epic History
Probably Adobe Caslon Pro - a channel favourite..
Epic History
Please message us if you can't find your code.
Covfefe Dotard
Can’t wait for all the new content
Stuart Carver
Now that sounds like a grand work day out. Showed a friend of mine who’s a designer the first Nelson video and he was very impressed with the how you’ve come on over time with the map designs ect and loved the 3D graphics. He also asked what font you were using as he thought it was very effective?
Zach Cox
Just ordered the battle map. Can’t wait for it to get here so excited!
Thomas P
Hi I don’t know where to find my discount code. Could someone help?
Gage Hardesty
Well then it seems that sooner or later Napoleon's curtains of being shown will close soon unless you plan to remake some of your old Napoleonic Wars videos but that's entirely up to you. BTW you know how you did a video at one point where you did like a secret Mashup where you included sneak peeks of the videos, for example, when you did the Mashup of the Alexander Kolchak video and the Battle of Eylau small peeks at future videos, I think you know what I mean.
Niels
Nice to see that I have two after each other to watch? I look forward to them all.
TankerBricks
Excellent update! Been to Bletchley Park a few times, great site and a nice area! Looking forward to all those releases!
Epic History
I'd like to do more in due course, but to some extent it will depend on how successful the first one is. And obv - we have quite a few other projects in the works at the moment!
Joshua Wilson
Will the voices of the peninsula video be a one time special or will it be a series?
