| A Brief History of History In A Brief History of History , acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell about the past are a crucial aspect of all cultures. However, while the traditional storytelling process--what we think of as "history" in the proper sense--is useful, it is also misleading, not least because it leads to the repetition of bias and misinformation. Jeremy Black is the author of numerous books, including A Subject for Taste: Culture in Eighteenth-Century England ; George III: America's Last King ; England in the Age of Shakespeare ; and Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England . He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow both of Policy Exchange and of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Black is a recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. Follow Black on his website . |