Professor Jeremy Black MBE is an English historian and a 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. He is the author of over 100 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". Black graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge with a starred first, and then undertook postgraduate work at St John's and Merton Colleges, Oxford. He taught at Durham University for 16 years from 1980 to 1996, firstly as a lecturer and then as a Professor. In 1996 he moved to Exeter University where he took up the post of Professor of History. He has lectured extensively in Australasia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the U.S.. He was editor of Archives, the journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005. He has served on the Council of the British Records Association (1989–2005); the Council of the Royal Historical Society (1993–1996 and 1997–2000); and the Council of the List and Index Society (from 1997). 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 Services Institute (now the RUSI Journal). He is an advisory fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas. He was awarded an MBE in 2000 for services to stamp design, as advisor to the Royal Mail from 1997.
Series
Books
Fighting for America
The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871
2011
England in the Age of Shakespeare
2019
Naval Power
A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 onwards
2009
War and the World
Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000
1998
Air Power
A Global History
2016
The World of James Bond
2017
Tank Warfare
2020
Avoiding Armageddon
From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40
2012
A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
2020
A History of the World
From Prehistory to the 21st Century
2018
Great Military Leaders and their Campaigns
2008
Maps and History
Constructing Images of the Past
1997
A Brief History of London
2022
Hitler and His Inner Circle
Chilling Profiles of the Evil Figures Behind the Third Reich
2021
Crisis of Empire
Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century
2008
The Politics of James Bond
From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen
2000
London
A History
2012
A History of Europe
From Pre-History to the 21st Century
2019
The Battle of Waterloo
2010
A Brief History of Italy
2018
Beyond the Military Revolution
War in the Seventeenth Century World
2003
A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society, 1550-1800
1991
Pitt the Elder
1992
Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975
2001
War for America
The Fight for Independence, 1775-1783
1991
The Great War and the Making of the Modern World
2011
The British Abroad
The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century
1992
The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon (Volume 21)
2009
Clio's Battles
Historiography in Practice
2015
Imperial Legacies
The British Empire Around the World
2019
Metropolis
Mapping the City
2015
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
2015
A Brief History of Portugal
Indispensable for Travellers
2020
Rethinking Military History
2004
War Since 1945
2004
European Warfare 1815-2000
2001
Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
A Subject for Taste
2005
Elite Fighting Forces
From the Praetorian Guard to the Green Berets
2011
Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures
2015
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Strategies for a World War
2022
European Warfare, 1660-1815
1994
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
A Global History
2016
Culloden and the '45
1990
World War Two
A Military History
2003
Concise Dictionary of Akkadian
2000
Great Battles of All Time
2022
A History of Diplomacy
2010
The British Seaborne Empire
2004
The Seventy Great Battles in History
2005
The Holocaust
History and Memory
2008
A Brief History of History
2023
Italy and the Grand Tour
2003
The Game Is Afoot
The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes
2022
Strategy and the Second World War
How the War was Won, and Lost
2021
Western Warfare, 1775-1882
2001
The Hanoverians
The History Of A Dynasty
2004
Eighteenth-Century Europe
1990
Warfare in the Eighteenth Century
1999
The Age of Total War, 1860-1945
2006
A History of the British Isles
1996
The Power of Knowledge
How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
2014
World History
1999
George III
Majesty and Madness
2020
War In The Early Modern World, 1450-1815
1998
France
A Short History
2021
Mapping Shakespeare
An exploration of Shakespeare's worlds through maps
2018
Maps and Politics
1998
A Short History of War
2021
Maps of War
Mapping Conflict Through the Centuries
2008
Logistics
The Key to Victory
2021
Introduction to Global Military History
1775 to the Present Day
2005
A History of Britain
1945 to Brexit
2017
The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare
Renaissance to Revolution, 1492-1792
1996
The Making of Modern Britain
The Age of Empire to the New Millennium
2001
Eighteenth Century Britain, 1688-1783
2001
Military Strategy
A Global History
2020
War
A Short History
2009
George III
America's Last King
2006
European Warfare 1494-1660
2002
Waterloo
The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon
2010
Great City Maps
2016
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2010
2010
A Brief History of Spain
2019
A Brief History of the Mediterranean
Indispensable for Travellers
2020
War and Technology
2013
World History Atlas
1999
European Warfare, 1453-1815
1999
Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony
The World Order Since 1500
2007
A Brief History of Slavery
2011
Nineteenth-Century Britain
2002
