Black's History Week

Dec 12 2024 199 ep. 42 mins 70

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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. See https://acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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209: The idea of the countryside Pt. 2

Dec 12 2024 44 mins

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart continue their exploration of the English countryside and discuss how the government has increased its control over it.

208: The idea of the countryside

Dec 05 2024 39 mins

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart travel outside of the English town to explore the English countryside, and how it has been perceived and depicted.

207: After Covid

Nov 29 2024 38 mins

English towns are still recovering from the legacy of the pandemic. Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to discuss whether more centralised or decentralised government provides the answers to their economic woes.

206: In the city

Nov 21 2024 39 mins

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss English towns in the final decades of the 20th century, from suburbia to inner city crime.

205: The decline of industry

Nov 15 2024 50 mins

In the 1980s-90s Britain deindustrialised, changing the English town forever.

204: Up-and-down towns

Nov 07 2024 40 mins

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart explain how English towns gained cultural dynamism in the 1960s, and how some of them underwent economic decline in the 1980s.

203: Bitter progress

Nov 01 2024 45 mins

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss post-war English towns, the drive for urban redevelopment, the rise of modernism, and the birth of new towns.

202: War, peace and city streets

Oct 24 2024 38 mins

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss English houses from the 1920s to the 1950s — how to heat them, how to feed their inhabitants and how to stop them from being levelled by German bombs.

201: The rise of suburbia

Oct 18 2024 44 mins

The expansion of the suburbs in early 20th century England had wide-ranging impacts on social and economic life.

200: Living the good life

Oct 10 2024 36 mins

The late 19th century saw the rise of the English middle class shape urban development.