Colin Jones CBE is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London.
He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Past President, Royal Historical Society..
His many books include The Medical World of Early Modern France (with Lawrence Brockliss, 1997), The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002), Paris: Biography of a City (2004: winner of the Enid MacLeod Prize) and The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris (2014).
He has published widely on French history, particularly on the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and the history of medicine.
Colin Jones CBE is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London