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Black's History Week
A weekly podcast covering history, arts, culture and politics with emeritus Professor of History, Jeremy Black, from The Critic Magazine: Britain's new magazine for open-minded readers.
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Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the politics of urban life in the nineteenth century, from the condition of the poor to concerns about the effects of alcohol.
19th century English Towns were more than political and industrial centres, they came to shape and influence our collective imagination. Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss the English city in history and in literature.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart ask whether the eighteenth century English town really offered a higher quality of life. Fortunes could be made, but there was also conflict and disillusionment.
London expanded and ports boomed, but many provincial towns lagged behind — Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss the uneven progress of urban England in the eighteenth century.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the politics of British urban life in the 17th and 18th centuries. How were townspeople represented, and how did they differ from ruralites?
England's urban landscape was forever transformed by the ravages of plague, and the march of reform. Jeremy Blacks joins Graham Stewart to discuss the 17th century town.
Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss English towns during the Civil War, and how the royalist-parliamentarian divide ran through every community.
The 16th century was a time of economic, demographic and religious ferment and change for English towns. Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart for another in his ongoing series on English urban history.
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution. Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss how growing wealth fueled urban conflict.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart continue discussing the history of the English town, from the Saxon period to the Norman era and the early Medieval period
Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss the birth, development and decline of British towns in the Roman and Dark Ages.
Must a city have a cathedral? Must a place with a cathedral be a city? Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the often contested evolution and definition of English towns and their historical significance.
In this new series on the history of English towns, Professor Jeremy Black talks about various aspects of town life, including social experiences, economic opportunities, political views, and cultural aspirations.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the future of higher education. How can institutions be more efficient and effective? Find out in this final episode on our mini-series on the academia.
Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss why the teaching of military history in decline at our universities.
In a new episode of their series on higher education, Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the pathologies of university administration, grade inflation and why “older” does not always mean “better”
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on his own experience of the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss declining scholarly standards, the state of peer review and the sycophantic treatment of subpar work.
From perverse incentives and failing financial models to the declining focus on teaching and the student experience, Jeremy Black explores what's gone wrong at British universities.
In the first episode of this two part series, Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the financial, corporate and cultural forces undermining the quality of British and American higher education.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the decline of waterways in the 20th Century as competing transport systems vie for government support and investment.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how, in competition with the railways, British canals and canal boats were adapted to embrace steam power.
On this week's Black's History Week podcast, continuing our series on the history of British waterways. Professor Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss how Britain created a national system of canals connecting resources, industry, cities and maritime trade.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart guide the boat of their new series on waterways into the 1800s, and discuss the politics and economics of the development of the British canal network.
In the second episode of their new series on canals, Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss travel, commerce and innovation on the rivers of Tudor and Stuart Britain
All aboard! Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart begin a new series on canals by discussing the importance of transport on rivers in medieval Britain.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the bleak state of roads in modern Britain. Infrastructure is underfunded. People who are dependent on cars are being neglected. The future of electric vehicles is uncertain. Are we crawling to a standstill?
Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart how motorways and bypasses changed getting about Britain from the late 1950s to the 1990s.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the slow development of British roads and automobiles in the 20th Century, the gradual increase in affordability, and how films and literature magnified the romance of the motor car.
The 19th Century is most famous for its railways, but Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart are here to tell us that roads were significant as well. How did they develop, in scale and in quality? What sort of science and engineering was involved? And what accidents took place?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss whether turnpikes transformed travel in eighteenth century Britain or represented a means of revenue-raising from traffic whilst offering marginal improvement in return?
On the long journey from the middle ages to the early modern period, the British road underwent radical changes in both purpose and design. Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart walk the winding path of British transport history.
What have the Romans done for us? For one thing, they built a lot of roads. In the first episode of a new series of podcasts on transport, Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the development of British roads.
Ridley Scott's Napoleon bends history to breaking point. Professor Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to talk historical fact and fiction.
How does geopolitics help us to understand international relations today? In the last episode of their series on geopolitics, Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart attempt to transcend the glib explanations one finds elsewhere to reflect on technology, conflicting interests and the evolution of thought in the field.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the subtle nature of Chinese geopolitics, with its debt servitude and its self-serving propaganda.
The 1990s were supposed to be the decade of American triumph – and for a time, it seemed like it was. Professor Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to talk post-Cold War geopolitics.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Cold War in the 1980s, its different military and diplomatic manifestations and the weaknesses of elegant geopolitical narratives.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Ostpolitik and Atlanticism in a post-Vietnam age and the surprising level of agency enjoyed by the less powerful states in the Cold War.
Professor Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to talk 1960s geopolitics, the Cold War, and the long war in South East Asia.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Cold War in the 1950s, the role of air forces and the development of nuclear brinksmanship.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the evolution of Cold War thought, the errors of FDR, the complexities of containment and the unpredictable nature of foreign policy commitments.
Professor Jeremy Black speaks with Graham Stewart about geopolitics at the end of World War Two. Were there reasonable prospects for optimism about a new, more peaceful future? Or had power just been rearranged into differently dangerous forms? All this and China, the British Empire and more.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss geography, logistics and materiel in World War Two, and whether geopolitics represents the lens through which to see conflict or just one useful field of study.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss geopolitics in the United States in the approach to the Second World War, and the underrated importance of logistics and materiel in statecraft.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss geopolitics in Nazi Germany and the United States, and explore the questionable influence of intellectuals and the predictive value of geopolitical theories.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss British air power, geopolitics and the relationship between ideas and technological progress.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how geography and infrastructure affected the First World War, but also how geopolitics is as much a rhetoric of power as a description of the world.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the academic roots of the field of geopolitics and the intellectual overratedness of a key essay of Halford Mackinder.
The term “geopolitics” is flung around a lot these days, but what does the concept mean? Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart begin their exploration of world politics and theory
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart finally reach the station as their series on the history of railways ends — discussing the slower rate of innovation and the complexities of investment.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss why rail projects often end up mired in delays and cancellations, from Facebook’s bridge to nowhere to HS2.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the realities of modern rail — from the costs of construction to the limits of geography.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart avoid train triumphalism in discussing the complex political and environmental circumstances that surround modern rail.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss rail in Britain in the 20th century, and why the infamous Beeching cuts must be seen in their proper historical context.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the evolution of railways in the mid-to-late 20th Century, and their influence on the evolution of the age, considering labour disputes, nationalisation and the Cold War.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the use of rail travel in WW2, from the logistics of war to the architecture of genocide.
In the early decades of the Twentieth Century, the USA and the Soviet Union took major steps towards becoming the two greatest powers in the world. What was the state of their railways? Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss.
Rail in the interwar period was not just Hercule Poirot on the Orient Express. Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the politics of rail travel in the 1920s and 30s, from Stanley Baldwin to Benito Mussolini.
Professor Jeremy Black joins deputy editor Graham Stewart to discuss the role of locomotives in the First World War
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart explore how railways spread across the world — from India to Australia — in what was a technological achievement but also a complex political phenomenon.
The car may be the defining vehicle of the United States of America, but as Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart explore the train was integral to its development as well.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart follow the development of railways across Europe and America, and reflect on their impact on the US Civil War.
How did the railways develop in France and Germany? Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart take a European excursion.
It is easy for us to associate steam trains with nostalgia. As British trains and railways were being developed, though, as Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss, they were at the forefront of British progress.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart begin a new series on the development of British railways. How were they funded? Who were the key figures? Did trains simply supplant other forms of transport or cooperate with them? Find a seat and join us.
Professor Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss slavery and reparations, and the complexity and potential folly of seeking to right moral evils of the past in the politics of the present.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss American disorder in the past and present, and whether the US or the UK is more welcoming of different opinions.
Did the French Revolutionary Wars dominate British politics or did they spur innovation and reform? Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss a tempestuous time.
18th Century England featured an exciting literary milieu — but also political and religious upheaval. Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart investigate.
How should we think about Britain's colonial expansion? Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart try to set it in historical context and discuss its economic and geopolitical implications.
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss conflict and cooperation between the different peoples of Britain in the 18th Century.
Professor Jeremy Black speaks with Graham Stewart about eighteenth century politics and the recurrent situations of history.
How similar and different is the Russo-Ukrainian War from other conflicts in history? Graham Stewart interviews Professor Jeremy Black.
Why have the Conservative PMs who have followed David Cameron struggled to leave their mark? Professor Jeremy Black speaks to Graham Stewart.
Was Blair a shallow political operator — or something worse? Jeremy Black speaks to Graham Stewart
Was John Major’s premiership “continuity Thatcher”, something distinctive in its own right or just a long period of undistinguished drift from which Blairism offered escape? Professor Jeremy Black and The Critic’s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, assess what Major wanted and what he got.
Is modern Britain the country that Margaret Thatcher largely shaped or a repudiation of much of what she strived to create? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black and The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, debate the extent of the Iron Lady achievements.
Was David Cameron's premiership the last stable period of British government or did he bequeath many of the problems that beset Britain today? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black makes the case for the prosecution to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.
Gordon Brown is back, devising constitutional reform for the House of Lords and more devolution for Scotland. In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black and The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart discuss his legacy.
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the expansion of higher education has delivered so much less than it promised. Is government policy, managerial self-interest, funding models or student priorities most to blame?
How did the priorities of cartographers shape the past and, now that we have satellite imaging, how will map-making continue to inform our view of the world? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about America's political and strategic options and what the mid-term elections have changed or clarified.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, and considers why there is so little agreement on what to do with the House of Lords.
What are the practices and politics behind book reviewing and what does "peer review" mean in reality? In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black tells all to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black weighs Britain's recent political and economic turbulence and suggests to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, that it is scarcely evidence of national decline.
Should we speak ill of the dead? Professor Jeremy Black tells The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, that we should.
In this concluding episode on German history, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about what holds German identity and heritage together given the institutional, political, religious and territorial ruptures that have shaped and reshaped German history.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about contemporary German foreign policy. Have German interests really been subsumed into a common European position on the world stage and why did Berlin so badly miscalculate its relations with Putin's Russia?
The Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlandsfinally got its chance at power again in the late 90s — historian Jeremy Black joins Critic deputy editor Graham Stewart to discuss the rise and fall of Gerhard Schröder's government.
Professor Jeremy Black joins the Critic's deputy editor Graham Stewart to discuss why the fall of East Germany was far from inevitable.
In this Critic podcast recorded whilst Britain and the Commonwealth prepare for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, the historian, Professor Jeremy Black, talks with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Queen's place in British history.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the smoke and mirrors that obscured the reality of a failing East Germany.
(Photo shows East Berliners rioting against Soviet occupation, 1953.)
How exceptional was West Germany's politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s compared to other western European countries and what became of its Far Right? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black discusses German exceptionalism with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.
Photo shows a newsstand in West Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm during night time, 1955. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Were there realistic alternatives to dividing post-war Germany along ideological lines and were West German politics an Anglo-American creation or the response of Germans to the circumstances in which they found themselves? In this episode of Black's History Week, The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Professor Jeremy Black about the emergence of rival Germanys.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black continues his series on German history and talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about Germany's home front during the Second World War and what ordinary Germans knew about Jewish persecution and the Holocaust.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Nazi foreign policy differed from the traditional objectives of German nationalism.
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Continuing the series on German history, in this episode of Black's History Week Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Hitler entrenched his power across all aspects of German life in the 1930s.
Did the Nazis win power in 1933 because of the popular appeal of their message or through the divisions and miscalculations of their opponents? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the Nazis won with only a third of the vote.
Picture: Adolf Hitler is welcomed by supporters at Nuremberg in 1933 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Weimar Republic and whether its collapse blinds us to its achievements.
Picture: DDP poster for the Reichstag elections. May, 1928. "Clean up the Reich! Vote German Democrat!" Germany. (Photo by: PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
How was Germany governed during the pressures of the First World War and what caused the shortages that delivered so much hardship to its civilians? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about wartime in the Kaiser's Reich.
How democratic was Germany in the prelude to the First World War and what were the tensions in politics and society that ensured so much trust was placed in militarism? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart about Kaiser Wilhelm II, his chancellors and the mood of a modernising country racing towards catastrophe.
Picture: German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1859 - 1941) in military uniform, circa 1900. (Photo by Estate of Emil Bieber/Klaus Niermann/Getty Images)
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of a A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the path of German unification, from the failed revolutions of 1848 to the creation of Bismarck's Reich.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the wars with revolutionary France and annexations by Napoleon reshaped the German lands.
Photo: "Blucher the Brave Extracting the Groan of Abdication from the Corsican Blood Hound", April 9, 1814. Artist Thomas Rowlandson. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century and whether its ruler, Frederick, really was so great.
Picture: Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786). (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black explains to the The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, how German states that were ravished by the Thirty Years War recovered to produce the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age.
Picture: A View in Cologne, c. 1660. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the origins and course of the Thirty Years War in the German lands.
Picture: "Death of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden at the Battle of Lützen", 1855, by Carl Wahlbom (1810-1858)
How much of a German identity was there in the Holy Roman Empire in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the eve of the Reformation?
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, discusses where medieval power lay with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the effect that Martin Luther and the Reformation had on the German lands and whether a compromise solution existed but was missed.
In this concluding episode of his four part history of the Caribbean, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the nations of the Caribbean have adapted to modern times.
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of the Caribbean talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Caribbean in the nineteenth century as it adapts to an economy no longer dependent upon slavery and responds to the growing regional influence of the United States of America.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of the Caribbean, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean's European colonisers as well as the processes that drove its expansion and ultimately its dismantlement.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of the Caribbean, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about Caribbean society before Columbus and whether the European colonisers were primarily driven by religious, economic or strategic interests.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Short History of War, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how wars are brought to a conclusion.
In this episode of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance talks to The Critic’s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine leaves American and European strategic priorities.
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance, sets out the lessons Russia's invasion of Ukraine has for the study of geopolitics.
In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Forts and also Fortifications and Siegecraft, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century.
What prompted the Tsars to create a Russian Empire that colonised Ukraine, eastern Poland, the Baltic States and other lands in Eastern Europe? Was Moscow seeking greater security or fulfilling a sense of religious mission, or was Russia's western expansion simply naked nationalism and greed?
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, the lessons that this history holds today as Putin's forces threaten Ukraine.
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about The Great Game and whether Tsarist Russia's expansion through Central Asia posed the challenge to India that British soldiers and diplomats feared.
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance, explains how calculations over Europe's balance of power and the Eastern Question set up the conditions for what became the Great Game rivalry between Russia and Britain.
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Spanish-American war of 1896 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, conflicts often interpreted as differentiating rising and declining powers.
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include A Short History of War, talks to the The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat and whether the conflict in South Africa introduced new means of waging and combatting guerrilla warfare.
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned or a succession of opportunistic acquisitions? In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s Deputy Editor Graham Stewart about how the European powers fought over Africa whilst avoiding fighting each other.
After its victory in the American War of Independence, would the new American Republic assert a "manifest destiny" over all of North America or would much of the continent remain in the hands of the old European powers of Britain, France and Spain? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fighting for America, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the North American Question, 1783 to 1871.
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In this episode of Black's History Week,Professor Jeremy Black explains to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North and assesses whether they stood a realistic chance of winning.
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Image: June 1862, Captain John T Tidball of the Union Army poses with his staff at Fair Oakes, Virginia, during the American Civil War. (Photo by J. F. Gibson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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In this episode of Black's History Week,Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and what the Indian mutineers hoped to achieve in 1857 when they rose in rebellion.
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Image: Battle of Cawnpore, India 1857. Engraving from 1858, Engraver Unkown (Photo by D Walker/Getty Images)
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In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about why Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together against Russia in the Crimea.
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Image: Battle of Inkerman, 5 November 1854. Wars. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books on the period include Waterlooand 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.
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Were warfare and the state's role in military affairs transformed between 1500 and 1800? In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Short History of War explores and debunks some generalisations about war in early modern Europe.
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Image: Battle of Lepanto, October 1571. The fleets of Spain, Venice and the Pope, under the command of Don Juan of Austria, defeated the Turks in the last great sea battle involving galleys. From the National Maritime Museum, London. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include A Short History of War, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the feudal system, differing weaponry and firepower and the size of armies shaped medieval warfare.
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Image: Henry V of England, attacked by the Duke of Alencon, at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Artist James William Edmund Doyle, 1864. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)
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Siege warfare was the most common form of warfare in medieval Europe. In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fortsand Fortifications and Siegecraft, talks about defending and capturing walled cities and castles with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.
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Image: The siege of Jerusalem (Photo by: Leemage/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Short History of War, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the nature of warfare in Ancient Greece and Rome.
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Image: Statue of Leonidas on the monument celebrating the Battle of Thermopylae which took place during the Greco-Persian War of 480 BC. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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In this week's Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the centuries’ old military rivalry between China and Japan.
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Australia's military capacity to check Chinese influence is being boosted by a new Anglo-American submarine contract and the establishment of the AUKUS defence pact. But how have Australia's interests been defended until now in the south-west Pacific and what difference will AUKUS make?
In this week's Black's History Week podcast, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the past and present of Australia's role in the western alliance.
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Image: Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin is seen during AUSINDEX 21, a biennial maritime exercise between the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy on September 5, 2021.(Photo by POIS Yuri Ramsey/Australian Defence Force via Getty Images)
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Is there anything a 21st century military strategist can usefully learn from the tactics of Hannibal or the age of pike, sword and musket? In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black offers The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, a crash course in the history of war.
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Image: A painting depicting The British Army overpowering the Colonialist position during the Battle of Bunker Hill at the beginning of the Revolutionary War on June 17, 1775 outside Boston, Massachusetts. (Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images)
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Concluding the Black's History Week series on the deployments of the British armed forces between Waterloo and the fall of Kabul, in this podcast Professor Jeremy Black talks The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the themes, breaks, and continuities that have shaped the British military over the last two hundred years.
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In this edition of Black's History Week, the author of Military Strategy: A Global History, Professor Jeremy Black, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the strategic options for American defence policy in the aftermath of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Image: A US Apache attack helicopter flies over a field near in the town of Tal Haddad in the countryside of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on September 15, 2020. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Continuing the series of Black's History Week podcasts on British military deployments, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the future role of Britain's armed forces and whether the departure from Kabul marks the end of foreign nation-building operations.
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Image: UK military personnel board a A400M aircraft departing from Kabul on August 28, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Jonathan Gifford/MoD Crown Copyright via Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the performance of British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Image: A British Army soldier from the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment secures the helicopter landing strip (HLS) during operation Southern Beast on August 6, 2008 in Maywand District in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
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With the abrupt end of the Cold War, how successfully did Britain's armed forces adapt to new challenges - from the sands of Kuwait to the disintegration of Yugoslavia - in the 1990s? The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Professor Jeremy Black, author of War in the Modern World.
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Image: The Gulf War 1990 - 1991, Two British soldiers in NBC [Nuclear Biological and Chemical] equipment, pose with their SA80 rifles during a training exercise in Saudi Arabia before the start of operations in Kuwait, circa 1991. (Photo by Roger Ryan/ Crown Copyright. Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)
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Continuing the Black's History Week podcasts on British military strategy and deployments, in this episode, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the role Britain's nuclear deterrent and conventional forces played in facing the Warsaw Pact from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.
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Continuing the series on British military deployments over the last two hundred years, in this episode of Black's History Week Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the British Task Force liberated the Falkland Islands from Argentinian occupation in 1982.
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Continuing Black History Week's series on the British armed forces, in this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British army's thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.
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Image: Troops of the 3rd Battalion, Light Infantry of the British Army in Belfast, circa 1968. (Photo by Michael Brennan/Getty Images)
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Continuing our series on Britain's armed forces over the last two hundred years, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: a global history, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Britain's armed forces handled nationalist protests and uprisings from the Mediterranean and Middle East to Africa and Southeast Asia during the 1950s and 60s.
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Image: A group of Egyptians crowd around a British tank during the Suez Crisis of 1956. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Continuing the series on Britain's armed forces, in this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how British defence priorities adapted from the end of the Second World War to the first years of the Cold War.
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Image: Departure Of British Roops For Singapore In London Waterloo Station On January 17Th 1952 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images).
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In this third Black's History Week podcast on the role of the British armed forces in the Second World War, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British contribution to the Allied victory.
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Continuing our series on the performance of the British armed forces in the Second World War, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, morale, naval firepower, the RAF's bombing offensive and the campaigns in Greece, Italy and Normandy.
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Image: 14th February 1940: A crew member of HMS Exeter, which bore the brunt of a battle with the German battleship 'Admiral Graf Spee' in the South Atlantic, giving the thumb's up on the ship's arrival in Plymouth, England. (Photo by Harrison /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Britain's armed forces adapted to the challenges of fighting the Second World War.
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Image: Gloster Meteor. British jet fighter which first flew in 1943. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France 1918-40, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the state and preparedness of Britain's armed forces in the lead-up to the Second World War.
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Image: Recruits at an Army school for advanced tank training are instructed on how to use the Webley Mk VI service revolver at their depot in 1939 at the Bovington Camp, Dorset, United Kingdom. (Photo by A.J. O'Brien/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, what sort of war was Britain's armed forces equipped to fight in 1914 and how successfully did they adapt to the reality of the first world war? Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include The World at War 1914-1945 and The Great War and the Making of the Modern World, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.
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Image: First World War British soldiers in a trench 1914. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860 and Combined Operations,
talks toThe Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the reach and organisation of Britain's armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire and expeditionary campaigns around the world in the Victorian era.
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Image: HMS Terrible in a battle scene against men-of-war. At the time of construction, this 20-gun paddle frigate was one of the most powerful steam war vessels in the world. During the Crimean War she took part in operations around Sebastapol. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Waterlooand France: A Short History, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the shifting reputation of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Image: Equestrian portrait of Napoleon I, 1810, by Joseph Chabord (1786-1848), oil on canvas. Napoleonic era, France, 19th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A History of the British Isles, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the role of the Queen, and the Queen consort, in British and European history.
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the centrality of religion to the status and mission of monarchy in Britain and Europe.
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Image: Queen Elizebeth II attends Easter Sunday service at St George's Chapel on April 21, 2019 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about military monarchs and the relationship between crowned heads and brass hats.
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In this week's edition of Black's History Week, The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, asks Professor Jeremy Black about similarities and differences between British and European conceptions of monarchy.
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of England in the Age of Austen, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about Jane Austen and the social and political world she inhabited.
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Image: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817). (Photo by Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images)
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In this week's edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the role of prime minister has evolved from the tenure of William Ewart Gladstone to Boris Johnson.
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Image: William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Engraving c1895. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
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It is 300 years ago this month that Robert Walpole became prime minister of Great Britain. In this edition of Black's History Week, Walpole's biographer, Professor Jeremy Black, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries.
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Image: Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole. The first Prime Minister of Great Britain.(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice and Contesting History talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about archival research and whether the enthusiasm for reinterpreting the past as a means of influencing current controversies encourages historians to stray too far away from the available source material.
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This month, the Biden administration's Interim National Security Strategic Guidance and the British government's Integrated Review set out Washington's and London's long-term foreign and security assumptions and priorities. In this edition of Black's History, Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Military Strategy: a Global History and The Tory World, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about whether these plans depart from, or continue, a coherent western strategic worldview.
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Conspiracy theories often provide convenient explanations for complex or random events to fit and sustain the particular prejudices of their believers. But in this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the many conspiracies and secretive plots that really did shape the course of events.
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Image: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605. From print published Frankfurt 1605. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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From Samuel Pepys to Sir Henry "Chips" Channon, Tony Benn, Alan Clark and even Sasha Swire, political diarists are often credited with providing valuable or at least entertaining insights into the political world they inhabit and observe. But are the best diarists really those who are secondary figures in the events they describe and how many of them actually provide meaningful substance to our understanding of past events?
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Image: Samuel Pepys' diaries, dealing with Charles II''s investigations into the affairs of the Navy office (Photo by H Todd/Getty Images)
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In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Rethinking World War Two,talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about Winston Churchill's role in shaping British and the Allies' military strategy in the Second World War.
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Image: Winston Churchill and British Army Generals in Caen, Normandy, 22 July 1944 (Photo by Capt. E G Malindine/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Rethinking World War Two talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about Winston Churchill's career up to 1940 when he became prime minister and considers the question of whether his political life had been more failure than success until that critical juncture in world history.
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Image: Winston Churchill, 1939 (Evening Standard/Getty Images)
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Why has Hercule Poirot's appeal been so enduring and what does his character owe to Agatha Christie's interests in psychoanalysis and Christian morality? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about Belgium's greatest fictional detective.
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In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, France's historical inheritance, from secularism and philosophy to elitism and expectations of the power of the state.
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Image: Paris, 1889, by Jean Beraud (1849-1935). (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
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How well did France adapt to economic and social change in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s?
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of the forthcoming France: A Short History, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about French reforms and continuities from Georges Pompidou to Francois Hollande.
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Image: Francois Hollande June 1, 2012. (BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/GettyImages)
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After the ignominy of the Vichy regime, how did post-war France recreate its government institutions, political parties and civil society? Was the Fourth Republic a failure and what was De Gaulle's vision for his country?
Professor Jeremy Black, author of the forthcoming France: A Short History, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968 and De Gaulle's resignation as president the following year.
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Image: Charles de Gaulle 1964. (Photo by Dominique BERRETTY/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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In this podcast edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of the forthcoming France: A Short History, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about what made French politics and society distinctive in the two decades before and after the First World War.
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How was France in the nineteenth century shaped by its prelude of revolutionary strife and warfare? Was it a bourgeois society seeking a combination of economic dynamism with political stability and, if so, was this better provided by the Second Empire of Napoleon III or the republican governments that immediately preceded and succeeded it?
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque.
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Image: The Beau at the Soirée. Found in the collection of Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga. Artist Garrido, Eduardo León (1856-1949). (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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What caused the French revolution? Might it have succeeded in creating a more representative government without descending into The Terror, and how was France reshaped in the process?
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Image: The Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, circa 1789. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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Should we study history to search for lessons it might teach or to discern its relevance to our own preoccupations? What were earlier generations of historians trying to convey in their institutions or through wider instruction? Beyond a chronicle of past events, does history have meaning?
In this edition of Black's History Week, The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Professor Jeremy Black, author of Contesting History and Clio's Battles, about whether the past can be a servant to the present.
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In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how he might perhaps have lived his life had he been a historian living in the Britain of the eighteenth century rather than now.
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From AJP Taylor's monologues to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, The World at War, heritage programmes and the documentaries of Ken Burns, how has television projected the study of history and the role of historians?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how television shapes our appreciation of the past - for better or worse.
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Image: The historian A.J.P. Taylor (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Why did the detective novel become popular in the Victorian era and experience a "golden age" in inter-war Britain? How far has the genre evolved since then? And can historians learn much about the preoccupations of their period by reading this form of literature?
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Image: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson from The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Arthur Conan Doyle, published in The Strand Magazine. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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From the platoon sergeant or first lieutenant trying to work out what was on the other side of the hill to the generals and field marshals planning grand strategy, the second world war was fought using maps. But how good were these maps? How were those covering under-explored areas made and how quickly could they be supplied to the men on the move at the sharp end?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks.
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Image: Royal Air Force Officers Discuss The War Situation Around Some Maps, During The World War II. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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How has the tank revolutionised warfare in the century since it was first deployed in 1916 and how has military strategy adapted to take account of opponents' real or perceived tank strengths and tactics? And with the increased deployment of rockets and drones, is the age of the main battle tank now passing in favour of lighter, more nimble, armour?
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Image: Soviet tanks, Russian Front, WWII (Photo by The Dmitri Baltermants Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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To Americans, a tyrant. To British radicals, a reactionary. To dramatists, a madman. And to many of his subjects, a well-intentioned and fundamentally moderate ruler holding his realm together in a Europe assailed by absolutists, dictators, and revolutionaries. Do any of these caricatures of George III fit?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of George III: America's Last King, and, most recently, George III: Majesty and Madness, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the sixty year reign of a man brought up to be the embodiment of a patriot king.
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In this week's Black's History Week podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Altered States, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how posterity - or at any rate some historians - will treat the presidency of Donald Trump. Revolutionary? Visionary? Perpetuator of a long-established isolationist tradition or the architect of a realist foreign policy for the 21st century? An aberration? Or a symptom of deeper and unresolved divisions in American society that consensus politics did not - and may not - overcome?
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In this fifth podcast to mark the presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Altered States, talks to The Critic‘s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the end of the Cold War.
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In this fourth podcast to mark the coming presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Altered States, talks to The Critic‘s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the Second World War.
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In the third of four podcasts to mark the coming presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fighting for America and Altered States, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the power of the US president was exercised in the first half of the twentieth century, from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR.
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In the second of three podcasts to mark the coming presidential election, the first of which can be found here, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fighting for America and Altered States, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the power of the US president was exercised during the Civil War and its aftermath.
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Image: President Abraham Lincoln, photo by Hulton/Archive/Getty Images
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With less than four weeks to go before American voters elect their next president, how has executive authority developed since George Washington was sworn in as the federal republic's first president in 1789?
In this first of three podcasts to mark the coming presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fighting for America and Altered States, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about where power lay in the period between the United States achieving independence and the outbreak of Civil War in 1861.
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Image: George Washington on horseback in front of a map of the United States, by James Montgomery Flagg, c. 1935. Screen print. (Illustration by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)
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In a week when backbench MPs and the government clashed over the right to debate Coronavirus regulations before they become law, how does the role of the modern MP compare with that of an eighteenth century honourable member? Were MPs a check upon - or a rubber-stamp for - successive Whig governments and how diligently did they perform their duties?
In this week's Black's History Weekpodcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Walpole in Power and Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the nature of parliamentary government in Georgian Britain.
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Image: Sir Robert Walpole in the House of Commons, circa 1700s
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Has scientific development become so specialised and academic roles so minutely research-focused that there is no longer a role for the inter-disciplinary polymath who prioritises breadth of knowledge and making connections between different subjects?
In this week's Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man and how he personally developed such breadth in his own wide-ranging career as a historian.
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Welcome to the first episode of Black’s History Week: the latest podcast series from us here at The Critic.
The former prime ministers, John Major, Tony Blair and Theresa May have all criticised Boris Johnson's handling of the Internal Market Bill and the Withdrawal Agreement. But how common is it for ex-prime ministers to continue to play a prominent part in British politics after they have left Downing Street? And do American presidents mostly find it easier to resist the urge to influence political debate after their White House tenure expires?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, biographer of Robert Walpole and Pitt the Elder, talks to The Critic's editor, Graham Stewart, about the ruling passion and which of the pastmasters have successfully influenced politics after their time in office elapsed.
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Image: William Pitt the Elder, (Image from Studio of William Hoare, held at the National Portrait Gallery, image obtained via Wikipedia)
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