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A weekly podcast covering history, arts, culture and politics with emeritus Professor of History, Jeremy Black, from The Critic Magazine: Britain's new magazine for open-minded readers. See https://... more
FAQs about Black's History Week:How many episodes does Black's History Week have?The podcast currently has 199 episodes available.
December 12, 2024209: The idea of the countryside Pt. 2Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart continue their exploration of the English countryside and discuss how the government has increased its control over it....more45minPlay
December 06, 2024208: The idea of the countrysideProfessor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart travel outside of the English town to explore the English countryside, and how it has been perceived and depicted....more40minPlay
November 29, 2024207: After CovidEnglish 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. ...more39minPlay
November 21, 2024206: In the cityProfessor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss English towns in the final decades of the 20th century, from suburbia to inner city crime....more40minPlay
November 15, 2024205: The decline of industryIn the 1980s-90s Britain deindustrialised, changing the English town forever. ...more51minPlay
November 07, 2024204: Up-and-down townsProfessor 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....more41minPlay
November 01, 2024203: Bitter progressProfessor 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....more46minPlay
October 24, 2024202: War, peace and city streetsProfessor 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....more39minPlay
October 18, 2024201: The rise of suburbiaThe expansion of the suburbs in early 20th century England had wide-ranging impacts on social and economic life. ...more45minPlay
October 10, 2024200: Living the good lifeThe late 19th century saw the rise of the English middle class shape urban development. ...more37minPlay
FAQs about Black's History Week:How many episodes does Black's History Week have?The podcast currently has 199 episodes available.