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- 19: France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg
In this podcast 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 what made French politics and society distinctive in the two decades before and after the First World War.
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Image: Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) 1925 (Photo by LL/Roger Viollet via Getty Images)
Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
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46 min - 18: How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
How was France in the nineteenth century shaped by its prelude of revolutionary strife and warfare? Was it a bourgeois society seeking a combination of economic dynamism with political stability and, if so, was this better provided by the Second Empire of Napoleon III or the republican governments that immediately preceded and succeeded it?
In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque.
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Image: The Beau at the Soirée. Found in the collection of Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga. Artist Garrido, Eduardo León (1856-1949). (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
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48 min - The French Revolution and its legacy
What caused the French revolution? Might it have succeeded in creating a more representative government without descending into The Terror, and how was France reshaped in the process?
In this new Black's History Week series on French history, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the revolutionary ferment.
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Image: The Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, circa 1789. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
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52 min - 16: Does history have meaning?
Should we study history to search for lessons it might teach or to discern its relevance to our own preoccupations? What were earlier generations of historians trying to convey in their institutions or through wider instruction? Beyond a chronicle of past events, does history have meaning?
In this edition of Black's History Week, The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Professor Jeremy Black, author of Contesting History and Clio's Battles, about whether the past can be a servant to the present.
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Image: Statue of Clio, Muse of History (Photo by The Art Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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46 min - 15: My eighteenth century life
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how he might perhaps have lived his life had he been a historian living in the Britain of the eighteenth century rather than now.
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Image: English historian Edward Gibbon (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
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42 min - 14: History on the box
From AJP Taylor's monologues to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, The World at War, heritage programmes and the documentaries of Ken Burns, how has television projected the study of history and the role of historians?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about how television shapes our appreciation of the past - for better or worse.
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Image: The historian A.J.P. Taylor (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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45 min - 13: What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Why did the detective novel become popular in the Victorian era and experience a "golden age" in inter-war Britain? How far has the genre evolved since then? And can historians learn much about the preoccupations of their period by reading this form of literature?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart.
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Image: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson from The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Arthur Conan Doyle, published in The Strand Magazine. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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39 min - 12: How the Second World War was mapped
From the platoon sergeant or first lieutenant trying to work out what was on the other side of the hill to the generals and field marshals planning grand strategy, the second world war was fought using maps. But how good were these maps? How were those covering under-explored areas made and how quickly could they be supplied to the men on the move at the sharp end?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks.
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Image: Royal Air Force Officers Discuss The War Situation Around Some Maps, During The World War II. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)
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45 min - 11: Tank warfare - its past and future
How has the tank revolutionised warfare in the century since it was first deployed in 1916 and how has military strategy adapted to take account of opponents' real or perceived tank strengths and tactics? And with the increased deployment of rockets and drones, is the age of the main battle tank now passing in favour of lighter, more nimble, armour?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Tank Warfare, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the century of the tank.
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Image: Soviet tanks, Russian Front, WWII (Photo by The Dmitri Baltermants Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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54 min - 10: George III - a much misunderstood monarch?
To Americans, a tyrant. To British radicals, a reactionary. To dramatists, a madman. And to many of his subjects, a well-intentioned and fundamentally moderate ruler holding his realm together in a Europe assailed by absolutists, dictators, and revolutionaries. Do any of these caricatures of George III fit?
In this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of George III: America's Last King, and, most recently, George III: Majesty and Madness, talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the sixty year reign of a man brought up to be the embodiment of a patriot king.
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Image: King George III of England, painting by Allan Ramsay, c. 1767 (Photo by Apic/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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