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Personal History
Education and Career
He attended Glasgow Academy on a scholarship for the children of dead serviceman (his father having been killed in the war),1 and graduated with First Class Honours History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, England (1959-1962). Following his undergraduate degree, Stone went to complete his graduate work studying Central European History in Vienna and Budapest (1962-1965). Whilst in Vienna he met his first wife, the niece of the finance minister in "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Haiti government. Their son Nick Stone is a thriller writer.2
Upon completion of his secondary degree, Stone was initially offered a research fellowship by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he later became an Assistant Lecturer in Russian and German History (1967), and finally a full Lecturer in 1973. In 1971 he had transferred from Caius to Jesus College, where, as director of studies in history, he combined a reputation for academic brilliance with an engaging angle on college politics.
In 1983 Stone attacked the recently deceased E.H. Carr via the London Review of Books.citation needed Stone was subsequently accepted in 1984 as a Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, England.3
Recent History
In 1997, Stone accepted retirement from Oxford and left to set up the department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara.4
Stone's books of greatest note are The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (1975) which won the Wolfson History Prize.2 Also Hitler (1980), and Europe Transformed 1878-1919 (1983) which won the Fontana History of Europe Prize.3
In 2005 Stone transferred to Koc University, Istanbul. However, currently Stone is returning to Bilkent University, Ankara, to teach for the 2007-2008 academic year. Stone also guest lectures at Bogazici University, Istanbul.
Stone keeps a house in the Galata neighborhood of Istanbul,5 and spends his time between Turkey and England. He is nearing the completion of his recent work on a general history of the U.S., Russia, and Europe, post-1945.
Personal views
Stone's tenure at Oxford was not without incident, largely based around his political views, which were considered to be highly conservative. He published a regular column in the Sunday Times between 1987 and 1992, and helped comment for many news services, including the BBC, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Wall Street Journal.6
During this same time Stone also became Margaret Thatcher's foreign policy advisor on Europe,3 as well as her speech writer.7
He is also known for his denial of Armenian Genocide: for example, in 2004 he wrote from Ankara to the Times Literary Supplement to deny "Armenian nationalist claims that a 'genocide' as classically defined had taken place".8
Published Works
- The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (1975), ISBN 0-340-12874-7
- Hitler (1980), ISBN 0-340-24980-3
- Europe Transformed, 1878-1919 (1983), ISBN 0-00-634262-0; 2nd ed. (1999), ISBN 0-631-21507-7
- Czechoslovakia: Crossroads and Crises, 1918-88 (1989), ISBN 0-333-48507-6
- The Times Atlas of World History (1989), ISBN 0-7230-0304-1 (ed.)
- The Other Russia (1990), ISBN 0-571-13574-9, with Michael Glenny
- World War One: A Short History (2007), ISBN-10: 1846140137 Allan Lane
References
- ^ Millard, Rosie (5 August 2007) Britain’s a terrible bore, that’s why I left, The Times.
- ^ a b Interview: Norman Stone has both entered history and written it The Independent
- ^ a b c Graduate Programs, Bilkent University
- ^ British Historian Norman Stone: There is No Armenian Genocide, Journal of the Turkish Weekly.
- ^ Turkish delights, The Times.
- ^ Univ. Prof. Dr. Norman Stone: Europe in the Turkish Mirror
- ^ Griffiths, Lyndsay (1997-04-13). "Britain's Iron Lady is back, but who is she supporting?", Reuters, Turkish Daily News. Archived from the original on 14 November 2008.
- ^ Poole, Steven. Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality, Grove Press, 2007, ISBN 0802143059, p. 95
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