Black’s History Week

Professor Jeremy Black on the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers

Professor Jeremy Black discusses Caribbean society pre-Columbus

History offers options rather than predictions for how the Russia-Ukraine war could end

What does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean for American and European geopolitical aims?

Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century

How was the balance of power maintained in the eighteenth century?

Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat

Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?

Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea