Professor Gareth Stedman Jones (born 17 December 1942) is a British academic and one of the UK's foremost historians. December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ...

Educated at St Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read History, Stedman Jones went on to Nuffield College, Oxford to take a DPhil. St Pauls School St Pauls School is a boys public school. ... College name Lincoln College Named after Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln Established 1427 Sister College Downing College Rector Prof. ... Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ...

He moved to Cambridge in 1974, becoming a Fellow of King's and, in 1979, a lecturer in history. Since 1991, he has served as co-Director of the Centre for History and Economics at King's and has held the post of professor of political science since 1997. 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. The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Full name The Kings College of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Cambridge Motto Veritas Et Utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College(s) New College Provost Prof. ... Political science is an academic and research discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... In 1960 in the UK, the editors of the New Reasoner and the Universities and Left Review merged their boards and formed the New Left Review. ...

Publications

• Outcast London, Oxford, 1971 [reprinted with new preface, 1984; reprinted Harmondsworth, 1992; Open University edition, 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 180pp.
• An End to Poverty? London, Profile Books, July 2004.