James Joll

James Joll was born in 1918 and educated at Winchester, then at the University of Bordeaux, and New College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served with the Devonshire Regiment and in the Special Operations Executive. From 1947 to 1950 he was a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at New College, Oxford, and from 1951 to 1967 a Fellow and Sub-Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford. He was a visiting professor at Harvard, Stanford, Tokyo, Sydney and Iowa universities and twice a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. James Joll was Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics from 1967 until his retirement in 1981 when he became Emeritus Professor of the University of London. Professor Joll was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1977. He died in 1994.