Jeremy Black (historian)
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Jeremy Black (born 30 October, 1955) MBE is British historian and a Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of over seventy books, especially on eighteenth century British politics and international relations.
He graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge, with a starred first and then did postgraduate work at Oxford, and then taught at Durham as a professor before moving to Exeter in 1996. He has lectured extensively in Australasia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the USA. He was awarded an MBE for services to stamp design. He has also recently been involved with the Oxford Discovery Program on the Transatlantic Crossing of the Queen Mary 2; where he delivered a series of 4 lectures.
