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Black's History Week episodes
- 29: How imaginative should historians be?
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 material.
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47 min - 28: Joined-up strategy?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, Graham Stewart, about whether these plans depart from, or continue, a coherent western strategic worldview.
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47 min - 27: Conspiracies: theory and practice
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.
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Image: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605. From print published Frankfurt 1605. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
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50 min - 26: Which political diaries are worth taking seriously?
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 understanding of past events?
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the craft and value of the political diarist.
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Image: Samuel Pepys' diaries, dealing with Charles II''s investigations into the affairs of the Navy office (Photo by H Todd/Getty Images)
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47 min - 25: Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?
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.
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Image: Winston Churchill and British Army Generals in Caen, Normandy, 22 July 1944 (Photo by Capt. E G Malindine/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)
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46 min - Perspectives on Churchill
In this edition 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 career up to 1940 when he became prime minister and considers the question of whether his political life had been more failure than success until that critical juncture in world history.
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Image: Winston Churchill, 1939 (Evening Standard/Getty Images)
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50 min - 23: Poirot's little grey cells
Why has Hercule Poirot's appeal been so enduring and what does his character owe to Agatha Christie's interests in psychoanalysis and Christian morality? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about Belgium's greatest fictional detective.
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Image: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot (Photoshot/Getty Images)
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53 min - 22: French Connections
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, France's historical inheritance, from secularism and philosophy to elitism and expectations of the power of the state.
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Image: Paris, 1889, by Jean Beraud (1849-1935). (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
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56 min - 21: France since De Gaulle: a radical or conservative republic?
How well did France adapt to economic and social change in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s?
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of the forthcoming France: A Short History, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about French reforms and continuities from Georges Pompidou to Francois Hollande.
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Image: Francois Hollande June 1, 2012. (BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/GettyImages)
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51 min - 20: Did Gaullism save France?
After the ignominy of the Vichy regime, how did post-war France recreate its government institutions, political parties and civil society? Was the Fourth Republic a failure and what was De Gaulle's vision for his country?
Professor Jeremy Black, author of the forthcoming France: A Short History, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968 and De Gaulle's resignation as president the following year.
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Image: Charles de Gaulle 1964. (Photo by Dominique BERRETTY/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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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.
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