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Jeremy Black is an English historian, born on the 30th of October 1955, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He now serves as a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Jeremy Black is the author of over 180 books, principally on 18th-century British politics and international relations. He was described in 2004 as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age".
Jeremy Black completed his doctoral thesis, titled British Foreign Policy 1727-1731, in 1983 at Durham University, where he had joined as a lecturer in 1980. Durham promoted him to a professorship in 1994.
Jeremy Black studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, and at St John's College and Merton College, both at Oxford, before joining Durham University as a lecturer in 1980.
Jeremy Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize in 2008 from the Society for Military History, awarded for lifetime achievement.
Jeremy Black edited Archives, the journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005, while also serving on that association's Council. He also sat on the Council of the Royal Historical Society, the Council of the List and Index Society, and the editorial boards of History Today, the International History Review, the Journal of Military History, Media History, and the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, now the RUSI Journal.