Gareth Stedman Jones

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Professor Gareth Stedman Jones (born 17 December 1942) is a British academic and one of the UK's foremost historians.

Educated at St Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read History, Stedman Jones went on to Nuffield College, Oxford to take a DPhil.

He moved to Cambridge in 1974, becoming a Fellow of King's and, in 1979, a lecturer in history. Since 1991, he has served as co-Director of the Centre for History and Economics at King's and has held the post of professor of political science since 1997. From 1964 to 1981 he served on the Editorial Board of the New Left Review. He was a joint founder of the History Workshop Journal in 1976.

[edit] Publications

• Outcast London, Oxford, 1971 [reprinted with new preface, 1984; reprinted Harmondsworth, 1992; Open University edition, 2002].
• Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982, Cambridge, 1983.
• Klassen, Politik, Sprache, edited by P. Schöttler, Munster, 1988.
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Harmondsworth, 2002, introduction of 180pp.
• An End to Poverty? London, Profile Books, July 2004.