Black's History Week

With the abrupt end of the Cold War, how successfully did Britain's armed forces adapt to new challenges - from the sands of Kuwait to the disintegration of Yugoslavia - in the 1990s?  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Professor Jeremy Black, author of  War in the Modern World . Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never mis...

Continuing the Black's History Week podcasts on British military strategy and deployments, in this episode, Professor Jeremy Black talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the role Britain's nuclear deterrent and conventional forces played in facing the Warsaw Pact from Brezhnev to Gorbachev. (Photo: Stocktrek Images, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo) Music: Radetzky March by Human Sym...

Continuing the series on British military deployments over the last two hundred years, in this episode of Black's History Week Professor Jeremy Black talks to  The Critic '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) Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphon...

Continuing Black History Week's series on the British armed forces, in this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of  Insurgency and Counterinsurgency , talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British army's thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never miss...

Continuing our series on Britain's armed forces over the last two hundred years, Professor Jeremy Black, author of  Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: a global history , talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Britain's armed forces handled nationalist protests and uprisings from the Mediterranean and Middle East to Africa and Southeast Asia during the 1950s and 60s. Don’t...

Continuing the series on Britain's armed forces, in this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of  Insurgency and Counterinsurgency , talks to  The Critic '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. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  ...

In this third Black's History Week podcast on the role of the British armed forces in the Second World War, Professor Jeremy Black talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British contribution to the Allied victory. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection...

Continuing our series on the performance of the British armed forces in the Second World War, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, morale, naval firepower, the RAF's bombing offensive and the campaigns in Greece, Italy and Normandy. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Ima...

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Britain's armed forces adapted to the challenges of fighting the Second World War. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: Gloster Meteor. British jet fighter which first flew in 1943. (P...

In this edition of Black'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 's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the state and preparedness of Britain's armed forces in the lead-up to the Second World War. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you neve...

In this edition of Black's History Week, what sort of war was Britain'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 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.  Don’t forget to subscribe to th...

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include  Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860 and Combined Operations , talks to The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the reach and organisation of Britain's armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire and expeditionary campaigns around the world in the Victorian era. Don’t forget to su...

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of  Waterloo  and  France: A Short History , talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the shifting reputation of Napoleon Bonaparte. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: Equestrian portrait of Napoleon I, 1810, by Joseph...

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of  A History of the British Isles , talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the role of the Queen, and the Queen consort, in British and European history. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: Queen Elizebeth, via Getty...

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the centrality of religion to the status and mission of monarchy in Britain and Europe. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never miss an episode. -- Image: Queen Elizebeth II attends Easter Sunday service at St George's...

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about military monarchs and the relationship between crowned heads and brass hats. -- Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra ( premiumbeat.com ) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's edition of Black's History Week,  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, asks Professor Jeremy Black about similarities and differences between British and European conceptions of monarchy. __ Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra ( premiumbeat.com ) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of  England in the Age of Austen , talks to  The Critic 's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about Jane Austen and the social and political world she inhabited. -- Image: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817). (Photo by Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images) Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra ( premiumbeat.com ) See acast.c...

In this week's edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to  The Critic 's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the role of prime minister has evolved from the tenure of William Ewart Gladstone to Boris Johnson. _ Image: William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Engraving c1895. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestr...

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

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of  Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice  and  Contesting History  talks to  The Critic '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...

This month, the Biden administration's Interim National Security Strategic Guidance and the British government's Integrated Review set out Washington's and London's long-term foreign and security assumptions and priorities. In this edition of Black's History, Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Military Strategy: a Global History and The Tory World, talks to The Critic's political editor, Grah...

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's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to  The Critic 's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the many conspiracies and secretive plots that really did shape the course of events. Right now we’re offering 3 mon...

From Samuel Pepys to Sir Henry "Chips" Channon, Tony Benn, Alan Clark and even  Sasha Swire , 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 they describe and how many of them actually provide meaningful substance to our...

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of  Rethinking World War Two,  talks to  The Critic 's political editor, Graham Stewart, about Winston Churchill's role in shaping British and the Allies' military strategy in the Second World War. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on  Spotify  and  iTunes  to ensure you never you never miss an episode. __ Right now we’...