Jeremy Black is a British historian, writer and former Professor of History at the University of Exeter. As the author of over 180 books, his work adds up to the most sustained presentation of British history in recent decades. He is a major exponent of military, diplomatic and cartographic history and has been important in helping the British to look at their past, as well as in representing British history to foreign audiences. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, US.
Black expertly weaves together thematic chapters from the origins of monarchy, medieval times and sixteenth-century developments, to the crises of the seventeenth-century, settlement and imperialism, and the challenges of the modern age . . . This book is a necessary and comprehensive guide to the British Monarchy and how it has shaped history - and our lives today -- Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society