Black’s History Week
The Eastern Question and the origins of The Great Game
How was the balance of power maintained in the eighteenth century?
The Boer War
Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat
The “Scramble for Africa”
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?
The Indian Mutiny
Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
The Napoleonic Wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815
Was there a military revolution in early modern Europe?
Professor Jeremy Black explores and debunks some generalisations about war in early modern Europe
Medieval Warfare
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the impacts on medieval warfare
A short history of war
Professor Jeremy Black offers Graham Stewart a crash course in the history of war
The long view: Britain’s armed force
Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black on how the British military has been shaped over the last two hundred years