Julian Jackson

Julian Timothy Jackson FRHistS (born 10 April 1954) is a British historian and academic. He is professor of history at Queen Mary University of London, and is one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France.

Biography He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on the Great Depression in France, supervised by Professor Christopher Andrew. After many years spent at the University of Wales, Swansea, he joined the Queen Mary History Department in 2003. The French translation of The Dark Years — La France sous l’Occupation, 1940-1944 (Flammarion, 2004) — was singled out for a special mention by the jury of the Prix Philippe Viannay—Défense de la France. The French translation of The Life of Charles de Gaulle — De Gaulle : une certaine idée de la France (Seuil, 2019) — won the Grand Prix de la Biographie politique du Touquet in 2021.

He has twice won the Duff Cooper Prize: for 2018's A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle and for 2023's France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain.

He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).

His partner is Douglas, an interior designer.