British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Julian Jackson
Professor of History, University of Wales, Swansea
Year Elected: 2003
He is a leading authority on the history of France in the 1930s and 1940s. His work on the Popular Front integrates political and economic history in the period of the Depression. France: The Dark Years 1940-1944 sets the Vichy regime and the Occupation in a longer-term context and synthesizes social, cultural and political history.