A historian who clarified the political conflicts of modern France
Julian Jackson is a British historian of twentieth-century France who has traced the conditions and consequences of political choices from the Depression and Popular Front to the Occupation and Gaullism. His study The Popular Front in France examined the relationship between reform and rearmament, democratic defence and mass mobilisation across political, social and cultural dimensions, becoming a major reference point in debate over the period. He later broadened his work to the French defeat of 1940, the German Occupation, postwar homosexual politics and May 1968.
Career Timeline
- 1954Born in the United Kingdom
- 1982Earned a doctorate at the University of Cambridge
- 1985Published The Politics of Depression in France
- 1988Published The Popular Front in France
- 2001Published France: The Dark Years
- 2003Joined the history department at Queen Mary University of London
- 2018Won the Duff Cooper Prize for his de Gaulle biography
- 2023Won the Duff Cooper Prize for his study of Pétain