Black's History Week

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart continue their exploration of the English countryside and discuss how the government has increased its control over it.

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart travel outside of the English town to explore the English countryside, and how it has been perceived and depicted.

English towns are still recovering from the legacy of the pandemic. Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss whether more centralised or decentralised government provides the answers to their economic woes. 

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss English towns in the final decades of the 20th century, from suburbia to inner city crime.

In the 1980s-90s Britain deindustrialised, changing the English town forever. 

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart explain how English towns gained cultural dynamism in the 1960s, and how some of them underwent economic decline in the 1980s.

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss post-war English towns, the drive for urban redevelopment, the rise of modernism, and the birth of new towns.

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss English houses from the 1920s to the 1950s — how to heat them, how to feed their inhabitants and how to stop them from being levelled by German bombs.

The expansion of the suburbs in early 20th century England had wide-ranging impacts on social and economic life. 

The late 19th century saw the rise of the English middle class shape urban development.