AKA Colin David Hugh Jones

Born: 12-Dec-1947

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Paris: Biography of a City

    High School: Hampton Grammar School
    University: BA Modern History and Languages, Jesus College, Oxford University (1971)
    University: DPHil, St. Antony's College, Oxford University (1978)
    Lecturer: History, Newcastle University (1972-73)
    Professor: History, University of Exeter (1973-95)
    Professor: History, University of Warwick (1995-2006)
    Department Chair: History, University of Warwick (1998-2001)
    Professor: History, Queen Mary University of London (2006-)

    British Academy
    Royal Historical Society 1984
 
    Commander of the British Empire 2014

Author of books:
Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region, 1740-1815 (1983, history)
The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (1994, history)
The Medical World of Early Modern France (1997, history of science)
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715-99 (2002, history)
Paris: Biography of a City (2004, history)
The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth Century Paris (2014, social studies)

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