Jeremy Black (born 30 October, 1955) MBE is a British 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 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author of over eighty books, especially on eighteenth century British politics and international relations.
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He graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge, with a starred first and then did postgraduate work at St John's and Merton at Oxford University. He then 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 awarded an MBE for services to stamp design. He has also recently been involved with the Oxford Discovery Programme on the Transatlantic Crossing of the RMS Queen Mary 2; where he delivered a series of four lectures. Black is also an advisory fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas and was the keynote speaker at the center's 2008 fall conference.
Black has authored over eighty books throughout his career.[1]
A comprehensive list of Black's publications is available on his website.[2]
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