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.
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Review of A Short History of Russia
Review of The Short History of Russia: Returning to another country by Vladimir Shirogorov: Despite its laconic title, the book is neither an abridged textbook on Russian history nor a collection of its tales. The Short History of Russia is an unordinary creature on the “short history” bookshelf and a rare venture of historiosophy among…
Articles
Articles A Selection of a very few out of several thousand “Where does theory go in military history?”, War in History (2022), 29, 1 “European history and war: The case-study of the eighteenth century,”Journal of European Studies (2020), 50, 1 “Maps and navigation in the second world war,” Rusi Journal (2018), 163,5 “The Making of…
Forthcoming: A HISTORY OF ROADS IN 100 MAPS
By Jeremy Black Although sea and river routes have long played an important role in human transport, the major form of travel across the long arc of history has been roads; that is, roadways, in whatever form, across land. Humanity has traversed them in many ways – on foot, by animal or, more recently, by…
Review of The Return of the Great Powers
Review of The Return of the Great Powers by Brendan Simms (London: Basic Books, 2026. £25) for New Diplomatic History
Review of Freedman’s On Strategists and Strategy
Review of On Strategists and Strategy, Collected Essays, 2014-2024 by Lawrence Freedman for The NYMAS Review, no. 108, May-June 2026
The historic outlook of Tory foreign policy
Dear Prudence. A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism. Item for The Critic, June 2026
Review of ‘The Trump Realignment’
Review of Spencer Goidel and Kirby Goidel, The Trump Realignment. How Donald J. Trump Redefined the American Party System for The Critic.
Fortifications and Siegecraft
New book on Fortifications and Siegecraft This is free but friends are invited to subscribe for E30 to the Society that produces it. Details from Virgilio Ilari – virgilio.ilari@gmail.com
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries. Item for The Critic.
Review of Mexico: A 500-Year History
Review of Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham for NYMAS Review, No. 108 (May-June 2026)
Review of Daring to be Free
Review of Daring to be Free. Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World by Sudhir Hazareesingh for NYMAS Review, No. 108-9 (May-June 2026)
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for Fucina di Marte series, 2027 volumes, published online by SISM 2 volumes are planned: No. 8 The Cultures of WarNo. 9 War and the State Proposals are invited for these volumes, in each case for articles (including notes) of up to 8,000 words, No. 8 for submission of final version by…
Fortification and Siegecraft
Fortification and Siegecraft follows others in the Fucina di Marti series, most recently on Cavalry and Infantry, in offering a global approach to the subject, one that rejects the standards Eurocentricity and, instead, tests chronologies and theories by adopting this wider perspective. Moreover, within Europe, there is a ‘decentring’ from the standard Western European account…
Review of Cunningham, Henry VII
Review of Henry VII: Treason and Trust, by Sean Cunningham for New Criterion
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Engage Jeremy as a speaker
Jeremy can be contacted direct at jeremy@jeremyblack.co.uk or via GreatBritishSpeakers.co.uk
(below) Jeremy lecturing as guest speaker on the Orient Express in June 2023.
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