Chris Jones is a retired academic nurse. As the author of a book about the history of brain surgery and neurology in Liverpool, he is also widely published in the field of local history and particularly the public health history of Liverpool. His main focus has been on the problems facing the health of the city in the nineteenth century. He is the author of a published short history of fascism in Liverpool 1923-1940. He lives in Liverpool with his wife Kate and has three grown up children.