Dan Stone (born 1971) is an English historian. He is professor of Modern History at

Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London (RH), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public university, public research university and a constituent college, member institution of the federal University of London. It ...

, and director of its Holocaust Research Institute. Stone specializes in 20th-century European history,

genocide Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...

, and

fascism Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hie ...

. He is the author or editor of several works on

Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term ":wikt:historiography, historiography" is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiog ...

, including ''Histories of the Holocaust'' (2010) and an edited collection, ''The Historiography of the Holocaust'' (2004).

Early life and education

Stone was born in Lincoln, and raised in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

. He completed his bachelor's and doctoral degrees at the

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, followed by a junior research fellowship at

New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...

. Subsequently, he secured a lectureship at

Selected works

* (2001), ed. ''Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust''. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi BV. * (2002). ''Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain''. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. * (2003). ''Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933–1939: Before War and Holocaust''. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. * (2003). ''Constructing the Holocaust: A Study in Historiography''. London and Portland: Vallentine Mitchell. * (2004), ed. ''The Historiography of the Holocaust''. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. * (2006). ''History, Memory and Mass Atrocity: Essays on the Holocaust and Genocide''. London and Portland: Vallentine Mitchell. * (2008), ed. ''The Historiography of Genocide.'' Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. * (2010). ''Histories of the Holocaust''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * (2013). ''The Holocaust, Fascism and Memory: Essays in the History of Ideas''. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. * (2014). ''Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe since 1945''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * (2015). ''The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath''. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. * (2017). ''Concentration Camps: A Short History''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Reviews of ''Concentration Camps: A Short History'': * * * * * * * (2023). ''The Holocaust: An Unfinished History''. London: Pelican Books. * (2023). ''Fate unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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