Essays in Honour of Professor Jeremy Black Essays written by fellow historians and scholars paying a fitting tribute to Professor Jeremy Black on his retirement from Exeter University. Interesting personal anecdotes of Professor Black's long career as an historian, together with wide ranging contributions written by friends and colleagues. Excellent value and a joy to read. - goodreads Dr Ric Berman and Professor William Gibson - Editors: Ric Berman , FRHistS, has known Professor Jeremy Black for over forty years.  Contemporaries at Cambridge, albeit in different disciplines, when Ric read for a doctorate in History three decades later, Jeremy served as his supervisor. Ric's post-doctoral research at the Modern European History Research Centre, Oxford University, and at Oxford Brookes, has generated numerous journal articles and books on the inter-relationships between freemasonry and eighteenth-century society in Britain, Ireland and America. They include  The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry (2014), Schism (2015),  From Roanoke to Raleigh   (2018), and Espionage, Diplomacy & the Lodge  (2018). William Gibson, FSA, FRHistS, FRSA, is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University.  He is the author, co-author or editor of myriad journal articles and papers, and of fourteen books, including Teleology and Modernity  (2019), Sex and the Church in the long eighteenth century: religion, enlightenment and the sexual revolution  (2017), Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011  (2015),  The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901  (2012), and Religion and the Enlightenment 1600-1800: conflict and the rise of civic humanism in Taunton  (2007). Contents: Foreword , Sir Steve Smith Jeremy Black , William Gibson On first meeting Jeremy Black: Oxford 1978-80 , Colin Haydon Enduring Much, Achieving More , Paul Lay 'Always Look Up! Context, Complexity, and Passion in History Education' , Jeffrey Lee Meriwether 'A Provincial Enlightener': Andrew Hooke of Bristol, Whig writer and newspaper proprietor in the reign of George II , Jonathan Barry Lord Grantham and the Foreign Secretaryship, 1782-83: Personalities and peace making during the 'Crisis of the Constitution' , Nigel Aston Selling the Lottery in Britain, c.1694-1826 , Bob Harris The Jacobite Interpretation of Defeat , Daniel Szechi What Happened at Culloden and What Happened Next? , Murray Pittock The English Response to the French Revolution: The Established Church's Prayers, Fasts, and Thanksgiving Days 1793-1802 , Colin Haydon Monarchy and Nation in Modern Britain , Bruce Coleman How The First World War Helped Winston Churchill To Fight the Second World War , Andrew Roberts The Lantern of History comprises a unique collection of original essays in celebration of the academic achievements and work of Professor Jeremy Black. A scholar of Queens' College, Cambridge; a Harmsworth Scholar at Merton College, Oxford; lecturer and professor at the University of Durham; Professor of History (now Emeritus Professor), and one of the University of Exeter's most distinguished academics; and 'the most prolific scholar of our age'.