Dr. Emily Jones

Biography

Emily Jones arrived at the University of Manchester in 2018, having previously worked at Columbia University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford. Her DPhil, fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, was published as 'Edmund Burke: The Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: Intellectual History' (OUP, 2017; pb 2019), which won the Longman-History Prize. Jones is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy, and she has written for the Financial New Statesman, providing radio commentary for BBC Radio 4, ABC Australia, and ORF Austria. Her forthcoming book, 'Disraeli Myth: Making Conservative Tradition,' will offer an authoritative account of the historical uses and abuses of Benjamin Disraeli, a key figure in crafting a socially-minded brand of Conservatism. Her research interests primarily encompass intellectual and political history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, with ongoing work analyzing the development of ideas about conservatism and its intellectual political tradition. Jones also supervises PhD students, welcoming inquiries from those interested in political and intellectual history.

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