17 Facts About Norman Stone

Norman Stone was a board member of the Center for Eurasian Studies, and devoted some of the last years of his life to promoting Armenian genocide denial.

Norman Stone did not complete his doctorate, having been offered a research fellowship by Gonville and Caius College, where he later became an assistant lecturer in Russian and German History, and a full lecturer.

Norman Stone was appointed in 1984 as Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, England.

Norman Stone published a column in The Sunday Times between 1987 and 1992, and was employed by the BBC, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and The Wall Street Journal.

Norman Stone became Margaret Thatcher's foreign policy advisor on Europe, as well as her speechwriter.

In May 1994 Norman Stone gave a half-hour Opinions lecture televised on Channel 4 and subsequently published in The Independent.

In 1997, Norman Stone retired from his chair at Oxford and left to teach at the department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara.

In 2010, Norman Stone published a book on Turkish history, from the 11th century to the present day, Turkey: A Short History.

In 1990 Norman Stone was one of the historians behind the setting up of the History Curriculum Association.

Norman Stone questioned the use of the word genocide in connection with the deaths of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War One, arousing significant controversy.

Norman Stone praised Guenter Lewy, Bernard Lewis and France-based scholar Gilles Veinstein, all of whom do not believe a genocide took place.

Norman Stone described John Keegan's The Second World War as his preferred book on WWII, saying: 'There have been many and varied, and sometimes splendid, books on The Second World War, but my own preference is John Keegan's The Second World War '.

Norman Stone's behaviour was often erratic, his life sometimes chaotic, his promise unfulfilled.

Norman Stone tested to destruction the traditional indulgence of academic brilliance and eccentricity in both Cambridge and Oxford.

Norman Stone retained the admiration and support of a group of younger historians whom he had taught, or whom he inspired as a Conservative historian in a left-leaning profession.

Norman Stone owned a house in the Galata neighbourhood of Istanbul, and divided his time between Turkey and England.

Norman Stone spent the last years of his life in Budapest.