Black's History Week

Gordon Brown is back, devising constitutional reform for the House of Lords and more devolution for Scotland. In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black and The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart discuss his legacy.

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the expansion of higher education has delivered so much less than it promised. Is government policy, managerial self-interest, funding models or student priorities most to blame?

How did the priorities of cartographers shape the past and, now that we have satellite imaging, how will map-making continue to inform our view of the world? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about America's political and strategic options and what the mid-term elections have changed or clarified.

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, and considers why there is so little agreement on what to do with the House of Lords.

What are the practices and politics behind book reviewing and what does "peer review" mean in reality? In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black tells all to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black weighs Britain's recent political and economic turbulence and suggests to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, that it is scarcely evidence of national decline.

Should we speak ill of the dead? Professor Jeremy Black tells The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, that we should.

In this concluding episode on German history, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about what holds German identity and heritage together given the institutional, political, religious and territorial ruptures that have shaped and reshaped German history. 

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about contemporary German foreign policy. Have German interests really been subsumed into a common European position on the world stage and why did Berlin so badly miscalculate its relations with Putin's Russia?