Professor Jeremy Black: Sherlock Holmes lecture
Video: Documentary
Mary Washington University presents:
Great Lives Lecture Series
Professor Jeremy Black: Sherlock Holmes lecture
Documentary film - Total running time: ~ 1:16:22
The lecture was held on the 27th of March 2012.
Jeremy Black granted his permission to embed the video of his lecture on our site. Our sincere thanks to Professor Black for sharing his thoughts with us.
British historian Jeremy Black is the Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He graduated from Queen’s College, Cambridge. At Oxford University he did postgraduate work. After that he was a lecturer at Durham University and Exeter University. He wrote more than a hundred books, mainly on 18-th century British politics and international relations. Black is a prolific lecturer and writer, the author of over 100 books.
In 2000, for working on the 1999 stamps as an advisor to Royal Mail, he was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire). 2008 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement given by the Society for Military History.
Professor Jeremy Black wrote to our website:
" Holmes to me is a key figure in the interaction of literature and history. "
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