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With the abrupt end of the Cold War, how successfully did Britain&#39;s armed forces adapt to new challenges - from the sands of Kuwait to the disintegration of Yugoslavia - in the 1990s? The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Professor Jeremy Black, author of War in the Modern World.

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Continuing the Black&#39;s History Week podcasts on British military strategy and deployments, in this episode, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the role Britain&#39;s nuclear deterrent and conventional forces played in facing the Warsaw Pact from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.

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Continuing the series on British military deployments over the last two hundred years, in this episode of Black&#39;s History Week Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the British Task Force liberated the Falkland Islands from Argentinian occupation in 1982.

(Photo by Rafael WOLLMANN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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46: How the British Army fought the IRA
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Continuing Black History Week&#39;s series on the British armed forces, in this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British army&#39;s thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.

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Continuing our series on Britain&#39;s armed forces over the last two hundred years, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: a global history, talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Britain&#39;s armed forces handled nationalist protests and uprisings from the Mediterranean and Middle East to Africa and Southeast Asia during the 1950s and 60s.

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44: From fighting Fascists to confronting Communists
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Continuing the series on Britain&#39;s armed forces, in this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how British defence priorities adapted from the end of the Second World War to the first years of the Cold War.

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In this third Black&#39;s History Week podcast on the role of the British armed forces in the Second World War, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British contribution to the Allied victory.

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Continuing our series on the performance of the British armed forces in the Second World War, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, morale, naval firepower, the RAF&#39;s bombing offensive and the campaigns in Greece, Italy and Normandy.

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41: The British military in the Second World War - slow or quick learners?
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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Britain&#39;s armed forces adapted to the challenges of fighting the Second World War.

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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France 1918-40, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the state and preparedness of Britain&#39;s armed forces in the lead-up to the Second World War.

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39: A contemptible little army?
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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, what sort of war was Britain&#39;s armed forces equipped to fight in 1914 and how successfully did they adapt to the reality of the first world war? Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include The World at War 1914-1945 and The Great War and the Making of the Modern World, talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart. 

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38: Land and sea: the global reach of Britain&#39;s armed forces in the nineteenth century
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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860 and Combined Operations,

talks toThe Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the reach and organisation of Britain&#39;s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire and expeditionary campaigns around the world in the Victorian era.

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37: Napoleon&#39;s shifting reputation
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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Waterloo and France: A Short History, talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the shifting reputation of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A History of the British Isles, talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the role of the Queen, and the Queen consort, in British and European history.

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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the centrality of religion to the status and mission of monarchy in Britain and Europe.

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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about military monarchs and the relationship between crowned heads and brass hats.

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In this week&#39;s edition of Black&#39;s History Week, The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, asks Professor Jeremy Black about similarities and differences between British and European conceptions of monarchy.

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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of England in the Age of Austen, talks to The Critic&#39;s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about Jane Austen and the social and political world she inhabited.

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In this week&#39;s edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the role of prime minister has evolved from the tenure of William Ewart Gladstone to Boris Johnson.

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30: The evolving role of Prime Minister
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It is 300 years ago this month that Robert Walpole became prime minister of Great Britain. In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Walpole&#39;s biographer, Professor Jeremy Black, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries.

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29: How imaginative should historians be?
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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Clio&#39;s Battles: Historiography in Practice and Contesting History talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about archival research and whether the enthusiasm for reinterpreting the past as a means of influencing current controversies encourages historians to stray too far away from the available source mat...
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This month, the Biden administration&#39;s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance and the British government&#39;s Integrated Review set out Washington&#39;s and London&#39;s long-term foreign and security assumptions and priorities. In this edition of Black&#39;s History, Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Military Strategy: a Global History and The Tory World, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, G...
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Conspiracy theories often provide convenient explanations for complex or random events to fit and sustain the particular prejudices of their believers. But in this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the many conspiracies and secretive plots that really did shape the course of events.

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26: Which political diaries are worth taking seriously?
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From Samuel Pepys to Sir Henry &quot;Chips&quot; Channon, Tony Benn, Alan Clark and even Sasha Swire (https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2020/raunchy-tale-of-pedigree-chums/) , political diarists are often credited with providing valuable or at least entertaining insights into the political world they inhabit and observe. But are the best diarists really those who are secondary figures in the events...
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25: Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?
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In this episode of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Rethinking World War Two, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about Winston Churchill&#39;s role in shaping British and the Allies&#39; military strategy in the Second World War.

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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Rethinking World War Two talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about Winston Churchill&#39;s career up to 1940 when he became prime minister and considers the question of whether his political life had been more failure than success until that critical juncture in world history.

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Why has Hercule Poirot&#39;s appeal been so enduring and what does his character owe to Agatha Christie&#39;s interests in psychoanalysis and Christian morality? In this episode of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about Belgium&#39;s greatest fictional detective.

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In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, France&#39;s historical inheritance, from secularism and philosophy to elitism and expectations of the power of the state.

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How well did France adapt to economic and social change in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s?

In this edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of the forthcoming France: A Short History, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about French reforms and continuities from Georges Pompidou to Francois Hollande.

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After the ignominy of the Vichy regime, how did post-war France recreate its government institutions, political parties and civil society? Was the Fourth Republic a failure and what was De Gaulle&#39;s vision for his country?

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19: France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg
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In this podcast edition of Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of the forthcoming France: A Short History, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about what made French politics and society distinctive in the two decades before and after the First World War.

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18: How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
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How was France in the nineteenth century shaped by its prelude of revolutionary strife and warfare? Was it a bourgeois society seeking a combination of economic dynamism with political stability and, if so, was this better provided by the Second Empire of Napoleon III or the republican governments that immediately preceded and succeeded it?

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The French Revolution and its legacy
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What caused the French revolution? Might it have succeeded in creating a more representative government without descending into The Terror, and how was France reshaped in the process?

 

In this new Black&#39;s History Week series on French history, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the revolutionary ferment.

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16: Does history have meaning?
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Should we study history to search for lessons it might teach or to discern its relevance to our own preoccupations? What were earlier generations of historians trying to convey in their institutions or through wider instruction? Beyond a chronicle of past events, does history have meaning?

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15: My eighteenth century life
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In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how he might perhaps have lived his life had he been a historian living in the Britain of the eighteenth century rather than now.

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14: History on the box
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From AJP Taylor&#39;s monologues to Kenneth Clark&#39;s Civilisation, The World at War, heritage programmes and the documentaries of Ken Burns, how has television projected the study of history and the role of historians?

In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how television shapes our appreciation of the past - for better or worse. 

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13: What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
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Why did the detective novel become popular in the Victorian era and experience a &quot;golden age&quot; in inter-war Britain? How far has the genre evolved since then? And can historians learn much about the preoccupations of their period by reading this form of literature? 

In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart.

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12: How the Second World War was mapped
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From the platoon sergeant or first lieutenant trying to work out what was on the other side of the hill to the generals and field marshals planning grand strategy, the second world war was fought using maps. But how good were these maps? How were those covering under-explored areas made and how quickly could they be supplied to the men on the move at the sharp end?

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11: Tank warfare - its past and future
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How has the tank revolutionised warfare in the century since it was first deployed in 1916 and how has military strategy adapted to take account of opponents&#39; real or perceived tank strengths and tactics? And with the increased deployment of rockets and drones, is the age of the main battle tank now passing in favour of lighter, more nimble, armour?

In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, aut...
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10: George III - a much misunderstood monarch?
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To Americans, a tyrant. To British radicals, a reactionary. To dramatists, a madman. And to many of his subjects, a well-intentioned and fundamentally moderate ruler holding his realm together in a Europe assailed by absolutists, dictators, and revolutionaries. Do any of these caricatures of George III fit?

In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of George III: America&#39;s Last King, and...
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9: Hail to the Chief (Part VI)
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In this week&#39;s Black&#39;s History Week podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Altered States, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how posterity - or at any rate some historians - will treat the presidency of Donald Trump. Revolutionary? Visionary? Perpetuator of a long-established isolationist tradition or the architect of a realist foreign policy for the 21st century...
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8: Hail to the Chief (part V)
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In this fifth podcast to mark the presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Altered States, talks to The Critic‘s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the end of the Cold War.

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7: Hail to the Chief (Part IV)
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In this fourth podcast to mark the coming presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Altered States, talks to The Critic‘s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the Second World War.  

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6: Hail to the Chief (Part III)
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In the third of four podcasts to mark the coming presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fighting for America and Altered States, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the power of the US president was exercised in the first half of the twentieth century, from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR.

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Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify (https://o...
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In the second of three podcasts to mark the coming presidential election, the first of which can be found here (https://shows.acast.com/the-critic-magazine-and-jeremy-black-podcast/episodes/hail-to-the-chief) , Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fighting for America and Altered States, talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the power of the US president was exercised d...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1602828025" data-format="short_date">Oct 16, 2020</span></span>
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With less than four weeks to go before American voters elect their next president, how has executive authority developed since George Washington was sworn in as the federal republic&#39;s first president in 1789?

 

In this first of three podcasts to mark the coming presidential election, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Fighting for America and Altered States, talks to The Critic&#39;s political edi...
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In a week when backbench MPs and the government clashed over the right to debate Coronavirus regulations before they become law, how does the role of the modern MP compare with that of an eighteenth century honourable member? Were MPs a check upon - or a rubber-stamp for - successive Whig governments and how diligently did they perform their duties?  

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Has scientific development become so specialised and academic roles so minutely research-focused that there is no longer a role for the inter-disciplinary polymath who prioritises breadth of knowledge and making connections between different subjects?

In this week&#39;s Black&#39;s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic&#39;s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renais...
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1: The Ruling Passion
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Welcome to the first episode of Black’s History Week: the latest podcast series from us here at The Critic.

The former prime ministers, John Major, Tony Blair and Theresa May have all criticised Boris Johnson&#39;s handling of the Internal Market Bill and the Withdrawal Agreement. But how common is it for ex-prime ministers to continue to play a prominent part in British politics after they have l...
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