Hugh Stuart Jones is a British historian, currently Professor of Intellectual History at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. He was born in

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and educated at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he took a First in Modern History in 1983 and won the University's Gladstone Memorial Prize. He took his DPhil at Nuffield College, where he also held a Research Fellowship (1986-8). After teaching for two years at New College, he moved to

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in 1990. He was head of the History Department from 2000 to 2003. Stuart Jones is best known for his work on French and British political thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on the intellectual history of Victorian Britain, and on the history of universities. He is a notable authority on the intellectual history of liberalism. He was a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 2008–9. Stuart Jones' profile, University of Manchester
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Publications

* ''The French State in Question: Public Law and Political Argument in the Third Republic'' (1993) * (ed) ''Auguste Comte: Early Political Writings'' (1998) * ''Victorian Political Thought'' (2000) * ''Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don'' (2007)

References

British historians Historians of France People educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford Living people Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub