Stuart Jones (historian)
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Hugh Stuart Jones is a British
historian, currently Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester
. He was born in West Yorkshire
and educated at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he took a First in Modern History in 1983 and won the University's Gladstone Memorial Prize. He took his DPhil at Nuffield College, where he also held a Research Fellowship (1986-8). After teaching for two years at New College, he moved to Manchester
in 1990. He was head of the History Department from 2000 to 2003.
Stuart Jones is best known for his work on French and British political thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on the intellectual history of Victorian Britain, and on the history of universities. He is a notable authority on the intellectual history of liberalism. He was a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 2008-9.
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historian, currently Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
. He was born in West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
and educated at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he took a First in Modern History in 1983 and won the University's Gladstone Memorial Prize. He took his DPhil at Nuffield College, where he also held a Research Fellowship (1986-8). After teaching for two years at New College, he moved to Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
in 1990. He was head of the History Department from 2000 to 2003.
Stuart Jones is best known for his work on French and British political thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on the intellectual history of Victorian Britain, and on the history of universities. He is a notable authority on the intellectual history of liberalism. He was a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 2008-9.
Publications (H.S. Jones)
- The French State in Question: Public Law and Political Argument in the Third Republic (1993)
- (ed) Auguste Comte: Early Political Writings (1998)
- Victorian Political Thought (2000)
- Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (2007)