Norman Stone

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For the American psychotherapist and art collector (born 1939), see Norman C. Stone. For the U.S. Senator (born 1935), see Norman R. Stone, Jr..

Norman Stone (1941—) is a British academic who was born in Glasgow, Scotland on March 8, 1941.

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[edit] Personal History

[edit] Education and Career

He attended Glasgow Academy on a scholarship for the children of dead serviceman (his father having been killed in the war)[1], and graduated with First Class Honours History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, England (1959-1962). Following his undergraduate degree, Stone went to complete his graduate work studying Central European History in Vienna and Budapest (1962-1965). Whilst in Vienna he met his first wife, the niece of the finance minister in "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Haiti government. Their son Nick Stone is a thriller writer.[2]

Upon completion of his secondary degree, Stone was initially offered a research fellowship by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he later became an Assistant Lecturer in Russian and German History (1967), and finally a full Lecturer in 1973. In 1971 he had transferred from Caius to Jesus College, where, as director of studies in history, he combined a reputation for academic brilliance with an engaging angle on college politics. Stone was subsequently accepted in 1984 as a Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, England.[3]

[edit] Recent History

In 1997, Stone accepted retirement from Oxford and left to set up the department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara.[4]

Stone's books of greatest note are The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (1975) which won the Wolfson History Prize.[5] Also Hitler (1980), and Europe Transformed 1878-1919 (1983) which won the Fontana History of Europe Prize.[6]

In 2005 Stone transferred to Koc University, Istanbul. However, currently Stone is returning to Bilkent University, Ankara, to teach for the 2007-2008 academic year. Stone also guest lectures at Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Stone keeps a house in the Galata neighborhood of Istanbul,[7] and spends his time between Turkey and England. He is nearing the completion of his recent work on a general history of the U.S., Russia, and Europe, post-1945.

[edit] Personal views

Stone's tenure at Oxford was not without incident, largely based around his political views, which were considered to be highly conservative and reactionary. He published a regular column in the Sunday Times between 1987 and 1992, and helped comment for many news services, including the BBC, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Wall Street Journal.[8]

During this same time Stone also became Margaret Thatcher's foreign policy advisor on Europe[9], as well as her speech writer.[10]

[edit] Published Works

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Britain’s a terrible bore, that’s why I left - Times Online
  2. ^ Interview: Norman Stone has both entered history and written it - Features, Books - Independent.co.uk
  3. ^ Bilkent University - Graduate Programs
  4. ^ JTW News - British Historian Norman Stone: There is No Armenian Genocide
  5. ^ Interview: Norman Stone has both entered history and written it - Features, Books - Independent.co.uk
  6. ^ Bilkent University - Graduate Programs
  7. ^ Turkish delights - Times Online
  8. ^ Univ. Prof. Dr. Norman Stone: Europe in the Turkish Mirror
  9. ^ Bilkent University - Graduate Programs
  10. ^ Advance troops deploy in Albania, king returns 'Saturday Mothers' demand word on missing loved ones Turin shroud saved by 'miracle' in blaze drama Gre - Turkish Daily News Apr 13, 1997