Julian Jackson (historian)

He is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, and is one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France.

He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on the Great Depression in France, supervised by Professor Christopher Andrew.

[1] After many years spent at the University of Wales, Swansea, he joined the Queen Mary History Department in 2003.

The French translation was commended by the judges of the Prix Philippe Viannay-Défense de la France.

In 2009, Jackson had a study of homosexual politics in France after 1945 published in English by the University of Chicago Press.