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
Might-have-been books
Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
