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

It is wilfully forgotten that the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade

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The historical power struggle between uniformity and decentralisation

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Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett

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Removing statues and atoning for our past is a guilt-induced, one-sided rewriting of history perpetrated by anti-democratic elites

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Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer

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Churchill’s statue was attacked because he symbolises the continuity of the nation

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The notion of collective racial guilt undermines all institutions

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Feeling strongly about an issue is a dangerous justification for mob action

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Professor Jeremy Black proposes a way of saving history from ideological capture

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Ambitious young academics see the lecture hall and research laboratory as a shackle

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