Staff Profiles : Department of History & Welsh History , Aberystwyth University

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Dr David Ceri Jones BA PhD (Wales) is an historian of the early modern British Atlantic world. He is at present leading a major research project producing the first complete edition of the correspondence of the trans-Atlantic evangelical, George Whitefield (1714-70) for Oxford University Press. He has recently published A History of Christianity in Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022), the Oxford Handbook to Christian Fundamentalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), and War, Peace and the British Free Churches, 1914-1945 (London: Bloomsbury, 2026). In addition, he writes extensively on religion in modern and contemporary Wales, and is producing a monograph on Evangelicalism in Modern Wales: From 1948 to the Present (forthcoming).

David serves as President of the Wesley Historical Society, and is the editor of that society's Proceedings.

He is the co-editor of Studies in Church History, the annual publication of the Ecclesiastical History Society

He also edits the 'Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism' monograph series.

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HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

Research

David’s research is currently focused on the trans-Atlantic revivalist, George Whitefield (1714-70). He is the Director of a project entitled ‘George Whitefield and Trans-Atlantic Protestantism’, which aims to produce the first scholarly edition of the extensive correspondence of George Whitefield. This edition will be published in seven volumes by Oxford University Press. David co-organised the ‘George Whitefield at 300’ conference at Pembroke College, Oxford, and has co-edited George Whitefield: Life, Legacy and Context (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). David's first book - 'A Glorious Work in the World': Welsh Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival, 1735-50 (2004) was shortlisted for the inaugural Roland Mathias prize for Welsh writing in English, and his co-authored The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012) has established itself as one of the leading works on the early Methodist movement .

David has also recently published The Routledge Companion to the History of Evangelicalism (2018), Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (2019) and Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales (2020). He is also the co-author of A History of Christianity in Wales (2022), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (2023), and War, Peace and the British Free Churches, 1914-1945 (London: Bloomsbury, 2026). He is currently finishing a history of Evangelicalism in modern Wales to be published by the University of Wales Press, a new edition of the diaries of the Methodist martyr, William Seward (1702-40), and a new biography of British evangelical leader Martyn Lloyd-Jones for the Eerdmans Library of Religious Biography series.

David is the co-editor of Studies in Church History for the Ecclesiastical History Society, the Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, and the 'Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism' monograph imprint.

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Director of Postgraduate Studies

Office Hours (Student Contact Times)

Monday 2.00-3.00
Tuesday 2.00-3.00
Thursday 2.00-3.00

Publications

Jones, DC, Methuen, C & Marshall, P (eds) 2025, Margins and Peripheries in Christian History. Studies in Church History, vol. 61, vol. 61, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Jones, D 2025, Welsh Evangelical Historiography. in D Bebbington (ed.), The Gospel in the Past: Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement. Baylor University, Waco, TX, pp. 197-220.

Jones, D 2024, Secession, Stagnation and Survival: Evangelical Congregations in Wales, 1990–2022. in D Goodhew & M Smith (eds), Christianity in Britain Since 1914. Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000, Springer Nature, pp. 219-243. 10.1007/978-3-031-71311-8_10

Jones, D 2023, Defining and Interpreting Christian Fundamentalism. in DC Jones & A Atherstone (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism. 1 edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 3-24.

Jones, D 2023, Salvation and the 'Social Gospel'. in DC Jones & A Atherstone (eds), Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 305-23.

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