In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books on the period include Waterloo and the forthcoming The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - Strategies for a World War, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815.

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Image: Waterloo by Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben (circa 19th century). Vintage etching circa 19th century.

Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)