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Black's History Week
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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.
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209: The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
Dec 12, 202400:44:29Tap to summarizeProfessor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart continue their exploration of the English countryside and discuss how the government has increased its control over it.
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208: The idea of the countryside
Dec 6, 202400:39:58Tap to summarizeProfessor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart travel outside of the English town to explore the English countryside, and how it has been perceived and depicted.
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207: After Covid
Nov 29, 202400:38:55Tap to summarizeEnglish 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.
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206: In the city
Nov 21, 202400:39:24Tap to summarizeProfessor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss English towns in the final decades of the 20th century, from suburbia to inner city crime.
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205: The decline of industry
Nov 15, 202400:50:12Tap to summarizeIn the 1980s-90s Britain deindustrialised, changing the English town forever.
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204: Up-and-down towns
Nov 7, 202400:40:28Tap to summarizeProfessor 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.
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203: Bitter progress
Nov 1, 202400:45:51Tap to summarizeProfessor 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.
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202: War, peace and city streets
Oct 24, 202400:38:48Tap to summarizeProfessor 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.
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201: The rise of suburbia
Oct 18, 202400:44:45Tap to summarizeThe expansion of the suburbs in early 20th century England had wide-ranging impacts on social and economic life.
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200: Living the good life
Oct 10, 202400:36:28Tap to summarizeThe late 19th century saw the rise of the English middle class shape urban development.
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