Professor Aled G. Jones


BA (York), MA, PhD (Warwick) Photograph of Professor Aled G. Jones.

Contact

Email: agj@aber.ac.uk
Office: C40
Phone: 2008

Biography

Professor Aled G. Jones BA (York), MA, PhD (Warwick), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society is the Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History.

Professor Jones specialises in the history of modern Wales, in particular its engagement with Empire, and the history of the British media from the late eighteenth century to the present. His publications include Press, Politics and Society. A History of Journalism in Wales (1993), and Powers of the Press. Newspapers, power and the public in nineteenth-century England (1996).  He is joint editor of the Welsh History Review and served as Literary Director (Modern) of the Royal Historical Society (2000-2004). His current research focuses on Welsh Protestant missions in India 1840-1966, and he was  elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2004 for his work on the history of the Welsh in Bengal. He has served as Head of the Department of History and Welsh History (1994-2002), Dean of the Faculty of Arts (2004-5) and is currently the University's Pro-Vice Chancellor with responsibility for Research,  Language Policy and International Development. He was a member of the History Panel of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (2005-2008).

Staff Publications

2005

  • 'Chartist journalism and print culture in Britain 1830-1855', in Joan Allen and Owen Ashton (eds.), Papers for the People: A Study of the Chartist Press, Merlin Press, 2005, 1-24.
  • 'Culture, 'race' and the missionary public in mid-Victorian Wales', Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 10, no 2, November 2005.
  • 'Ffrwyth y Diwygiad: etifeddiaeth weledol y genhadaeth Bresbyteraidd Gynreig ar wastadedd Syhet,India, 1880-1935, Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinadidd/Historical Society of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, 29-30, 2005-6 (2006) pp. 126-147
  • Entries in the New Dictionary of National Biography, the Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2003), the Encyclopedia of Wales (2005), the Enclyclopedia of Europe (2005).

2004

  • 'Gardens of Eden:Welsh Missionaries in British India', in R. R. Davies and Geraint H. Jenkins (eds.), From Medieval to Modern Wales: Historical Essays in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2004, 264-280.
  • 'The Press and the Printed Word', in C.Williams (ed.), Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain, Blackwell. Publication (2004), 369-380.
  • 'Imagining Bengal. Bengali culture and the Welsh national awakening, 1840-1966', Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh(Humanities), vol.49, no. 1, June 2004.
  • Joint author with Robert Harrison and Peter Lambert of Part 1, 'The Professionalisation of History' comprising three chapters: 'The Institutionalisation and Organisation of History', 'Methodology: 'Scientific' History and the Problem of Objectivity', and 'The Primacy of Political History', in Peter Lambert and Phillipp Schofield (eds.), Making History: An Introduction to the Practices of History, (Routledge, 2004), 7-55.
  • Aled Jones and Bill Jones, 'Empire and the Welsh Press', in Simon J. Potter (Ed.), Newspapers and Empire in Ireland and Britain. Reporting the British Empire, c.1857-1921 (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2004), 75-91.
  • 'The transforming gaze: the photography of Welsh Christians in Sylhet, India, 1890-1947', Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh(Humanities), December 2004, 253-267.

2003

  • 'Brecknock at the crossroads - journalism, history and cultural identity in nineteenth-century Wales', Brycheiniog vol. xxxv, 2003, 101-116.
  • 'Politics and prophecy in the journalism of Gwilym Hiraethog', Transactions of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion 2002, new series vol. 9, 2003, 106-121.
  • 'The Other Internationalism? Missionary activity and Welsh Nonconformist perceptions of the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries', in Charlotte Williams, Neil Evans and Paul O'Leary (eds.), A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales, University of Wales Press, 2003, 49-60.
  • Aled Jones and Bill Jones, 'The Welsh World and the British Empire, c.1851-1939: an exploration', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. xxx1, no.2, May 2003, 57-81. Also available in Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich (eds.), The British World. Diaspora, Culture, Identity, Frank Cass, 2003, 57-81.
  • 'Welsh Missionary Journalism in India, 1880-1947' in Julie F. Codell (ed.), Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, 2003, 242-272. (Also published as 'Welsh Missionary Journalism in India, 1880-1947', Position Paper 123, Currents in World Christianity Project, University of Cambridge, 2000, 38.)

2002

  • 'The Dart and the damning of the sylvan stream: journalism and political culture in the late-Victorian city', Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2002, 2-17. The 2001 Michael Wolff Lecture, delivered at Birkbeck College, London, at the annual conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. A revised version also published in Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell (eds), Encounters in the Victorian Press. Editors, Authors, Readers (Palgrave, 2005), 177-194.
  • 'Print, language and identity: newspapers in Wales since 1804', Proceedings of the 68th International Federation of Library Associations Conference, available on IFLA CD, 2002 and www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/index.htm

2001

  • 'Y Drych and American Welsh Identity, 1851-1951', The North American Journal of Welsh Studies, vol. 1, no. 1-2, Winter-Summer 2001, http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/journal.html
  • (with Bill Jones) Welsh Reflections. Y Drych and America, 1851-2001, Gomer Press, Llandysul, 2001, (xiv, 198).

2000

  • 'The politics of water in Wales: global perspectives', Water in the Celtic world: managing resources for the 21st century , British Hydrological Society, 200, 363-367 (synopsis of a paper delivered to the BHS 2nd Inter-Celtic Colloquium, July 2000).
  • 'The nineteenth-century media and Welsh identity', in Laurel Brake, Bill Bell and David Finkelstein (eds), Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities, Palgrave, 2000, 310-325.
  • 'The Welsh Newspaper Press', in Hywel Teifi Edwards (ed.), A Guide to Welsh Literature c.1800-1900 , University of Wales Press, 2000, 1-23.
  • 'The Welsh language and journalism', in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), The Welsh Language and its Social Domains 1801-1911. A Social History of the Welsh Language , University of Wales Press, 2000, pp. 379-404. Also available in Welsh language version.

1999

  • with N. Fuller-Love, 'Small Businesses in the Media Industry in Wales', Contemporary Wales, vol. 12, 1999, 173-192.

1998

  • 'Meddylier am India' : tair taith y genhadaeth Gymreig yn Sylhet, 1887-1947', Transactions of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 4, 1998, 84-110.
  • 'The Newspaper Press in Wales 1804-1945', in Philip Henry Jones and Eiluned Rees (eds.), A Nation and its Books. A history of the book in Wales, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1998, 209-220.

1996

  • Powers of the Press. Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England, Scolar Press/Ashgate, Aldershot, 1996 (xii, 231).

1993

  • 'Constructing the readership in nineteenth-century Wales', in M.Harris and R. Myers (eds.) Serials and their Readers, St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester/Oak Knoll Press, Delaware, 1993, 145-162.
  • Press, Politics and Society. A history of journalism in Wales, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1993 (xii, 317).

1992

  • 'Local Journalism in Victorian Political Culture', in Brake, et al, Investigating Victorian Journalism, 63-70, op cit.
  • 'The British press, 1919-1945', opening essay in D. Griffiths (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422-1992, Macmillan, 1992, 47-55.

1990

  • Editor (with Laurel Brake and Lionel Madden), Investigating Victorian Journalism, Macmillan, 1990, 210.

1989

  • 'The Welsh Periodical Press', in R.T. VanArsdel and J.D.Vann, (eds.), Victorian Periodicals: a guide to research. Vol. 2, Modern Language Association of America, New York, 1989, 110-123.

1988

  • 'The New Journalism in Wales', in Joel H. Wiener (Ed.), Papers for the Millions: the New Journalism in Britain 1850-1914, Greenwood Press, New York, 1988, 165- 181.
  • 'Y Wasg Gymraeg yn y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg', in G.H.Jenkins, (Ed.), Cof Cenedl III, Gomer Press, Llandysul, 1988, 89-116.

1985

  • 'Making Television History - the contexts of 'The Dragon has Two Tongues', Screen, vol. 26, no. 6, November-December 1985, 65-69.

1984

  • 'Trade Unions and the Press: Journalism and the Red Dragon Revolt of 1874', Welsh History Review, vol. 12, no. 2, December 1984, 197-224.

1982

  • 'Workmen's Advocates: ideology and class in a mid-Victorian labour newspaper system', in J. Shattock, M. Wolff (eds.), The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings, Leicester University Press/Toronto University Press, 1982, 297- 316.