Colin Jones (historian)

Colin Jones is a prominent historian of France, currently Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Jones attended Hampton Grammar School. He then studied at Jesus College, Oxford, 1967–71 where he obtained a First Class Honours degree in Modern History and Modern Languages (French) and St Antony's College, Oxford from where he obtained his D.Phil (Doctoral Thesis) in 1978.

He began working as a Temporary Lecturer in History at Newcastle University, 1972–73 before moving on to the University of Exeter where he remained until 1995. He was then appointed Professor of History in the History Department of the University of Warwick where he stayed until 2006. He is currently Professor of History in Queen Mary, University of London.

He is known especially for his important history of Paris, Paris, Biography of a City, which won the Enid MacLeod Prize of the Franco-British Society as the book published in 2004 which contributed most to Anglo-French understanding.

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