Jeremy Black 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. View all publications
I defend the 1980 British crime drama “The Long Good Friday” as it goes head-to-head against the 1998 British crime comedy “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”. Podcast for Reels of Justice.
My review of Jonathan Haslam’s The Spectre of War. International Communism and the Origins of World War II (Princeton University Press, 2021) for the Network for New Diplomatic History.
There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onward, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were involved and, later, to use mapping to actually plan the progress of a conflict. Using contemporary maps, Jeremy Black‘s Maps of War: Mapping Conflict through the Centuries (Conway, 2016) covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war.
Jeremy Black addresses the Foreign Policy Research Institute on turmoil in Europe — from Brexit to the rise of nationalist parties to Russian machinations in Ukraine.
