Jeremy Black (historian)


Jeremy Black MBE is a British historian and a retired professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
He is the author of over 140 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age".

Background

Black graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge, with a starred first and then did postgraduate work at St John's and Merton Colleges, Oxford.
He taught at Durham University from 1980 as a lecturer, then professor, before moving to Exeter University in 1996. He has lectured extensively in Australasia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the U.S..
He was editor of Archives, journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005. He has served on the Council of the British Records Association ; the Council of the Royal Historical Society ; and the Council of the List and Index Society. He has sat on the editorial boards of History Today, International History Review, Journal of Military History, Media History and the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. He is an advisory fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas.

Awards and honours

Black has written over 90 books: a full list is available on his website. In 2011, Black presented a lecture on "London History" for The Marc Fitch Lectures.

Books