Julian Timothy Jackson (born 10 April 1954) is a British

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who is a fellow of the

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and of the

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. He is a professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London, he is one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France. He was educated at

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, where he obtained his doctorate in 1982 and had been supervised by Professor Christopher Andrew. After many years spent at the University of Wales, Swansea, he joined the Queen Mary History Department in 2003. Jackson’s first two books were notable contributions about the 1930s crisis in France. ''The Politics of Depression France 1932–1936'' (Cambridge University Press, 1985) was a study of economic policy-making in France during the Depression and more generally of the Depression's impact on French politics. ''The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy 1934–1938'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, a history of the

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, encompassed its political, social and cultural dimensions. In more recent years, Jackson’s research interests have moved on to the period after 1940. In 2001, he published an extensive synthesis of France under the Occupation entitled ''France: The Dark Years 1940–1944'' (Oxford University Press: 2001), which was short-listed for the ''Los Angeles Times History Book Prize'' and translated into French in 2003. The French translation was commended by the judges of the ''Prix Philippe Viannay-Défense de la France''. Jackson’s most recent books include ''The Fall of France'' (2003) and ''De Gaulle'' (2018), and he edited ''The Short Oxford History of Europe 1900–1945'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). ''The Fall of France'' was one of the winners of the Wolfson History Prize for 2004. In 2009, Jackson had a study of homosexual politics in France after 1945 published in English by the

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Bibliography

* ''The Politics of Depression France 1932–1936'' (Cambridge University Press, 1985). * ''The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy 1934-1938'' (Cambridge University Press, 1988). * ''France: the Dark Years 1940-1944'' (Oxford University Press, 2001). * ''The Fall of France'' (Oxford University Press, 2003). * ''Living in Arcadia. Homosexuality, Politics and Morality in France from the Liberation to Aids'' (University of Chicago, Press 2009). * ''La Grande Illusion'' (BFI Publications, 2009). * ''May 68: Rethinking France's Last Revolution'' (eds. Julian Jackson, Anna-Louise Milne, James S. Williams, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). * ''De Gaulle'' (Harvard University Press, 2018).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Julian T. 1954 births Living people Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Historians of Vichy France Academics of Queen Mary University of London Academics of Swansea University Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Historians of France