Jeremy Black

England's Ancien Regime

Was eighteenth-century England dynamic, entrepreneurial and secular, or hierarchic, conservative and confessional? Jeremy Black investigates recent 'revisionist' reassessments of the period.

Edmund Burke: History, Politics and Polemic

The first of the Romantic historians or a disgruntled propagandist of counter-revolution? Jeremy Black investigates how far Edmund Burke was a child of his times and had a political rather than an academic vocation.

Fit For a King

Jeremy Black examines the claim that Louis XV may have used contraception.