Jeremy Black is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter and was previously Professor of History at the University of Durham. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a senior fellow at Policy Exchange, as well as an advisory fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas. In 2000, he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to stamp design, as adviser to the Royal Mail from 1997.