Professor of history, University of Exeter
“Political and Religious Liberty in Britain”
Jeremy Black is a professor of history at the University of Exeter since 1996. Black has lectured extensively in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the U.S., where he has held visiting chairs at West Point, Texas Christian University, and Stillman College. He is the author of over one hundred books, especially on eighteenth century British politics and international relations. A past council member of the Royal Historical Society, Black is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was appointed to the Order of Membership of the British Empire for services to stamp design. Graduating from Cambridge with a starred first, he did postgraduate work at Oxford, and then taught at Durham, eventually as professor.
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