Fashioning the National in the Eighteenth Century. Online lecture for Relational Forms conference.
Forthcoming Lectures
- Why the Allies Won World War Two, Devon Cambridge Society, 5 March
- The Grand Tour, Athenaeum Library, Talk, 9 March, Members and their Guests only.
- Strategy in French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, virtual conference, c/o Alexander Mikaberidze, 11 March
- ‘The Importance of Being Poirot,’ FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, 6.00 pm, 1 April. OLF website
- Agatha Christie topic for Agatha Christie Festival, Torre Abbey, 16 September
Podcasts
‘Pride & Prejudice (2005) vs. Bridget Jones’s Diary.’ Podcast for Reels of Justice website.The “Scramble for Africa.” Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned? Podcast for The Critic.
The Boer War: why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat. Podcast for The Critic
The Ladykillers (1955) vs. The Ladykillers (2004). Podcast for Reels of Justice website.
A Short History of War (Yale University Press, 2021). Podcast for the New Books Network
The Critic podcasts – most recent first
The Eastern Question and the origins of The Great Game. How was the balance of power maintained in the eighteenth century? Podcast for The Critic
General History Podcasts
- The Crimean War https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-crimean-war
- The Napoleonic Wars https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-napoleonic-wars
- Was there a military revolution in early modern Europe? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/was-there-a-military-revolution-in-early-modern-europe
- Medieval Warfare https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/medieval-warfare
- Siege Warfare https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/siege-warfare
- Warfare in the classical world https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/warfare-in-the-classical-world
- Japan v China – the history of a rivalry https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/japan-v-china-the-history-of-a-rivalry
- Does AUKUS change Australia’s role in the Pacific https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/does-aukus-change-australias-role-in-the-pacific
- A short history of war https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/a-short-history-of-war
British Armed Forces
- The Long View of Britain’s Armed Forces https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-long-view-of-britains-armed-forces
- Where does American Strategy go from here https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/where-does-american-strategy-go-from-here
- Britain’s Military Performance in Iraq and Afghanistan https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/britains-military-performance-in-iraq-and-afghanistan
- Fighting for the new world order https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/fighting-for-the-new-world-order
- Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-falklands-war
- The Falklands War https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-falklands-war
- How the British Army fought the IRA https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/how-the-british-army-fought-the-ira
- Confronting or managing decolonisation? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/confronting-or-managing-decolonisation
- From fighting fascists to confronting communists https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/from-fighting-fascists-to-confronting-communists
- Allies at war https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/allies-at-war
- British forces on the offensive 1943-45 https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/british-forces-on-the-offensive-1943-45
- The British Military in the Second World War https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-british-military-in-the-second-world-war-slow-or-quick-l
- Britain’s armed forces during the rise of Hitler https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/britains-armed-forces-during-the-rise-of-hitler
- A contemptible little Army? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/a-contemptible-little-army
General History Podcasts
- Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/land-and-sea-the-global-reach-of-britains-armed-forces-in-th
- Napoleon’s shifting reputation https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/napoleons-shifting-reputation
- Queens and Queen Consorts https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/queens
- Crown, cross and altar https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/crown-cross-and-altar
- Crowned heads and brass hats https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/crowned-heads-and-brass-hats
- How Exceptional is Britain’s monarchy https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-making-of-monarchy
- Jane Austen’s Social and Political world https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/jane-austens-social-and-political-world
- The role of Prime Minister from Gladstone to Johnson https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-role-of-prime-minister-from-gladstone-to-johnson
- The evolving role of Prime Minister https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-evolving-role-of-prime-minister
- How imaginative should historians be? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/how-imaginative-should-historians-be
- Joined-up strategy? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/joined-up-strategy
- Conspiracies: theory and practice https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/conspiracies-theory-and-practice
- Which political diaries are worth taking seriously? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/which-political-diaries-are-worth-taking-seriously
- Churchill as a warlord https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/churchill-as-warlord-how-good-a-strategist-was-he
- Perspectives on Churchill https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/perspectives-on-churchill
- Poirot’s little grey cells https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/poirots-little-grey-cells
France Podcasts
- French Connections https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/french-connections
- France since De Gaulle: a radical or conservative republic? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/france-since-de-gaulle-a-radical-or-conservative-republic
- Did Gaullism save France? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/did-gaullism-save-france
- France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/france-between-belle-epoque-and-blitzkrieg
- How liberal and egalitarian was 19thC France https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/how-liberal-and-egalitarian-was-nineteenth-century-france
- The French Revolution and it’s legacy https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-french-revolution-and-its-legacy
General History Podcasts
- Does History have a meaning? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/does-history-have-meaning
- My eighteenth century life https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/my-eighteenth-century-life
- History on the box https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/history-on-the-box
- What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/what-do-detective-novels-tell-us-about-the-period-in-which-t
- How the Second World War was mapped https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/how-the-second-world-war-was-mapped
- Tank warfare – its past and future https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-past-and-future-of-tank-warfare
- George III – a much misunderstood monarch? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/george-iii-a-much-misunderstood-monarch
Hail to the Chief Podcasts
- Hail to the Chief (Part VI) https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/hail-to-the-chief-vi
- Hail to the Chief Part V) https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/hail-to-the-chief-part-v
- Hail to the Chief (Part !V) https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/hail-to-the-chief-part-iv
- Hail to the Chief (Part III) https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/hail-to-the-chief-part-iii
- Hail to the Chief (Part II) https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/hail-to-the-chief-ii
- Hail to the Chief https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/hail-to-the-chief
General History Podcasts
- Was Parliament more rebellious in the 18thC https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/was-parliament-more-rebellious-in-the-eighteenth-century
- Whatever happened to the polymath? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/jb-polymath
- The Ruling Passion: should former prime ministers gently fade away? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/the-ruling-passion
THE CRITIC PODCASTS
- Frustrate their Knavish Tricks: Is foreign interference in British politics any different now than in the past? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/frustrate-their-knavish-tricks
- What made eighteenth century Britain such an innovative society? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/what-made-eighteenth-century-britain-such-an-innovative-soci
- How Europe slowly came to terms with the Holocaust https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/how-europe-slowly-came-to-terms-with-the-holocaust
- The Portuguese at home and overseas https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/the-portuguese-at-home-and-overseas
- The grandeur and instability of Spain https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/the-grandeur-and-instability-of-spain
- Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the strength of Italy’s national unity https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/how-united-is-italy
- Does the Mediterranean have a common culture? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/does-the-mediterranean-have-a-common-culture
- The rise and fall of the British newspaper https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/still-fit-to-print
- Britain’s new East of Suez defence policy https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/the-new-elizabethans
- The Grand Tour – what the British got up to abroad https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/the-grand-tour-what-the-british-got-up-to-abroad
- How has James Bond evolved? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/how-has-james-bond-evolved
- Where do we stand with the twentieth century? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/where-do-we-stand-with-the-twentieth-century
- Are we witnessing a new age of emancipation? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/are-we-witnessing-a-new-age-of-emancipation
- When did the Cold War actually start? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/when-did-the-cold-war-actually-start
- What does ‘decolonising the curriculum’ mean? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/what-does-decolonising-the-curriculum-mean
- Is the lockdown causing more problems than it’s solving? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/is-the-lockdown-causing-more-problems-than-its-solving
- Graham Stewart asks Professor Jeremy Black why Britain’s armed forces are better trusted to deliver procurement than other state bodies and whether Britons have always held the armed forces in such high esteem? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/britains-armed-forces-to-the-rescue
- Can parliament work by zoom and are Universities in crisis? https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/can-parliament-work-by-zoom-and-are-universities-in-crisis
- Graham Stewart speaks to Professor Jeremy Black about historical reactions to national crises https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-podcast/episodes/controlling-crises
Friends might also be interested in the following podcasts, links and PDFs:
- England in the Age of Shakespeare for the New Books Network
- Is Military History Worth Studying? for the New Books Network
- A Short History of the Great River Thames for The Article
- How Might Historians Look Back on David Cameron? for The Article
- American Slavery in Historical Perspective for the FPRI
- Academics should look in the mirror before smearing their rivals for The Article
- Is the Idea of The Enlightenment Still Useful?
- The arresting note of folly: Oxford and class war
- The Problem with Decolonising the Curriculum
- Jeremy on his The English Press: A History for the New Books Network
- Jane Austen. A Tory Commentator