Dr David Jones
BA Ph.D. (Cymru) FRHistS
Reader
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: dmj@aber.ac.uk
- Office:3.08 International Politics Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 2840
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/b9d1a416-5d3b-45d4-a9a7-002c390c70ca)
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.
Director of Postgraduate Studies
- AB1 The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution (HQ35020)
- AB2 The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict (HQ35620)
- AB2 The European Reformation (HY26520)
- AB2 The European Reformation (HY36520)
- AB1 Research Methods and Professional Skills in History (HYM0120)
- AB3 Dissertation (HYM1160)
- AB2 People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999 (WH11720)
Module Coordinator
- AB2 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians (HY10420)
- AB1 Dissertation (HY30340)
- AB2 Europe and the World, 1000-2000 (HY12420)
- AB1 Introduction to History (HY12120)
- AB1 Making History (HY20120)
- AB1 Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800 (HY11420)
- AB2 People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999 (WH11720)
- AB1 Principles of Research Design (PGM0210)
- AB2 The European Reformation (HY26520)
- AB2 The European Reformation (HY36520)
Lecturer
- AB2 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians (HY10420)
- AB2 Borders and borderlands in modern Asia (HYM5920)
- AB2 Collective resistance of peasant communities in twentieth-century Latin America and the Caribbean (HYM0420)
- AB1 Concepts and Sources in Heritage Studies (HYM5120)
- AB1 England in Context in the Long Thirteenth Century (HYM2020)
- AB2 Europe and the World, 1000-2000 (HY12420)
- AB2 Gerald of Wales (HYM2820)
- AB1 Key Themes in Modern History (HYM0520)
- AB1 Latin for Postgraduate Study (HYM2120)
- AB2 Medieval London c. 1200 – 1500 (HYM0020)
- AB1 Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800 (HY11420)
- AB2 People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999 (WH11720)
- AB2 Representations of the Holocaust 1945-2020 (HYM6320)
- AB1 Research Methods and Professional Skills in History (HYM0120)
- AB2 Science, Place and Victorian Culture (HYM6220)
- AB1 Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences (HYM1220)
- AB1 Texts that made the Middle Ages: advanced Latin reading for postgraduate students (HYM2220)
- AB2 The European Reformation (HY36520)
- AB2 The European Reformation (HY26520)
- AB1 The Making of Wales (WHM1920)
- AB1 Working with History (HYM9920)
Tutor
- AB1 Culture, Society and the Victorians (HY29320)
- AB1 Culture, Society and the Victorians (HY39320)
- AB1 England in Context in the Long Thirteenth Century (HYM2020)
- AB2 Representations of the Holocaust 1945-2020 (HYM6320)
- AB1 Wales under the Tudors (WH33520)
- AB1 Wales under the Tudors (WH23520)
Moderator
- Tuesday 2.00-3.00
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.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 638 p. (Studies in Church History; Vol. 61).
Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
War, Peace and the British Free Churches, 1914-1945. ed. / Andrew Chandler; David Ceri Jones. London: Bloomsbury, 2025. p. 259-275.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
London: Bloomsbury, 2025. 294 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
The Gospel in the Past: Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement. ed. / David Bebbington. Waco, TX: Baylor University, 2025. p. 197-220.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Christianity in Britain Since 1914. ed. / David Goodhew; Mark Smith. Springer Nature, 2024. p. 219-243 (Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter