Gareth Stedman Jones

Gareth Stedman Jones, FBA (born 17 December 1942) is a British academic and historian.^[1] He is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London.^[2]

Career

Educated at St Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated in history in 1964, Stedman Jones went on to Nuffield College, Oxford to take a DPhil in 1970.

He moved to Cambridge in 1974, becoming a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and in 1979, a lecturer in history. He was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford from 1967 to 1970, a senior associate member of St Antony's College, Oxford in 1971–72, and an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Goethe University, Frankfurt in 1973–74, before becoming a lecturer in history at Cambridge in 1979–86 and a reader in History of Social Thought there in 1986–97.^[3] He has served as co-director of the Centre for History and Economics at King's since 1991 and held the post of professor of political science since 1997.^[4] 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.

He has two sons and one stepdaughter.

Publications

• Outcast London, Oxford, 1971, reprinted 1984 (with new preface), 1992 and 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 180 pp.
• An End to Poverty? London, Profile Books, July 2004^[5]
• Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, published by Allan Lane, August 2016

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