One of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France, Julian Timothy Jackson is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was educated at the University of Cambridge where he obtained his doctorate in 1982, having been supervised by Professor Christopher Andrew. After many years spent at the University of Wales, Swansea, he joined Queen Mary History Department in 2003. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.
Books in order of publication:
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).
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain (Harvard University Press, 2023)
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