Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at Exeter University. He is a prolific lecturer and writer, the author of over 100 books. Many concern aspects of eighteenth century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history but he has also published on the history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture and on the nature and uses of history itself. His recent books include The Geographies of an Imperial Power. Britain 1688-1815 and Fortifications. 

Jeremy Black explains the strange case of Edward Lucas

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How Jeremy Black filled the ten months between leaving school and starting Cambridge

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Professor Black discloses the themes and thoughts of his upcoming, final, pre-retirement lecture

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Charles Moore’s multi-volume biography of Thatcher harks back to an ancient tradition

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Dalrymple’s Anarchy says more about about a selling machine somewhat different to the East India Company

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The endless expansion of the University is unsustainable

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A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed

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Reflecting on a life in a British university

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Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

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Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.

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