Jeremy Black (historian)
Jeremy Black (born 30 October 1955) is a British historian, writer, and former 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, US. Black is the author of over 180 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". He has published widely on military and political history, including "Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975" (2001 ) and "The World in the Twentieth Century" (2002). 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. He was awarded a PhD from Durham, entitled "British Foreign Policy 1727–1731", in 1983. As a staff candidate he was not attached to any of the Durham colleges. He moved 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 (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 Service Institution" (now the "RUSI Journal"). He is an advisory fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas. Works. Black has written over 180 books: a full list  is available on his website. In 2011, Black presented a lecture on "London History" for The Marc Fitch Lectures.