Julian Jackson

Julian Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Modern French History at Queen Mary University of London. He is a leading authority on 20th century France, having published a series of acclaimed works on the subject, including France: The Dark Years (Oxford University Press, 2001), which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Fall of France (Oxford University Press, 2003), which won the Wolfson History Prize and A Certain Idea of France (Allen Lane, 2018) which received the Duff Cooper Prize, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, the American Library in Paris Award and the Elizabeth Longford award for historical biography, and was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize. Professor Jackson holds a PhD in history from Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society and has been honoured as both a Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques and as an Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.