Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is Emeritus 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, Fortifications and Siegecraft: Defense and Attack through the Ages, and Strategy and the Second World War: How the War was Won, and Lost

Obituaries are not a place to speak ill of the dead, but how are we to tell the truth honestly if we shy away from difficulties?

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Jeremy Black ponders the place of the BBC

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Jeremy Black reviews The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment, by Michael Hunter

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Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre

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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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