Staff
 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). His email address is agj@aber.ac.uk.
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