Jones, Heather


Dr Heather Jones  

Department

Position held

Department of International History

Lecturer in International History

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

International Society for First World War Studies

Board member

Trinity College, Dublin

Associate of the Centre for War Studies

Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne, France

Executive Board member

Experience keywords:

comparative history; 1916; 1914; First World War; 1917; 1918; blockade; prisoners of war; reprisals; violence; 1915

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The history of the First World War; prisoner of war history; comparative cultural history; the Weimar Republic; rising and war in Ireland 1914-1923; the siege of Kut-el-Amara, 1916; prisoner reprisals 1917; the blockade of Germany 1914-1920; violence against prisoners of war in Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920.

A short film about Dr Jones' research, 'A Very Modern Action: The Spring Reprisals of 1917', can be seen on the LSE website and YouTube channel.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

France; Britain; Germany; Ireland

Languages:

German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]; Italian [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7724

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Jones, Heather (2013) Church of Ireland great war remembrance in the south of Ireland: a personal reflection. In: Horne, John and Madigan, Edward, (eds.) Towards commemoration: Ireland in war and revolution 1912-1923. Royal Irish Acadeny, Dublin, Eire, pp. 74-82. ISBN 9781908996176

2012

Jones, Heather (2012) Droit international et prisonniers de guerre occidentaux lors de la Grande Guerre. In: Pathé, Anne-Marie and Théofilakis, Fabien, (eds.) La captivité de guerre au XXe siècle: des archives, des histoires, des mémoires. Armand Colin, Paris, France, pp. 48-58. ISBN 9782200286699

Jones, Heather (2012) Propaganda, trauma and remembrance: Trinity College Library’s collection of First World War memoirs. In: Vaughan, William , (ed.) The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, 1712–2012. Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781846823770

2011

Jones, Heather (2011) Blockades. In: Martel, Gordon, (ed.) The encyclopedia of war. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405190374

Jones, Heather (2011) Kriegsgefangenenlager: Der moderne Staat und die Radikalisierung der Gefangenschaft im Ersten Weltkrieg. Mittelweg 36, 20 (4). ISSN 0941-6382

Jones, Heather (2011) Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914–1920. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521117586

Jones, Heather (2011) Imperial captivities: colonial prisoners of war in Germany and the Ottoman Empire, 1914-1918. In: Das, Santanu, (ed.) Race, Empire and First World War writing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521509848

2010

Jones, Heather (2010) Book review: the ordeal of peace: demobilization and the urban experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921 - by Adam R. Seipp. English historical review, 125 (517). pp. 1571-1573. ISSN 0013-8266

Jones, Heather (2010) Un tournant dans la guerre: le typhus dans les camps de prisonniers de guerre allemands en 1915. In: Horne, John, (ed.) Vers la guerre totale: le tournant de 1914-1915. Tallandier , Paris, France, pp. 221-244. ISBN 9782847347166

2009

Jones, Heather (2009) Review of Uta Hinz, Gefangen im Großen Krieg. Kriegsgefangenschaft in Deutschland 1914-1921 (Essen, Klartext, 2006). German history, 27 (4). pp. 615-616. ISSN 0266-3554

Jones, Heather (2009) International or transnational?: humanitarian action during the First World War. European review of history, 16 (5). pp. 697-713. ISSN 1350-7486

2008

Jones, Heather (2008) A missing paradigm?: military captivity and the prisoner of war, 1914-18. Immigrants & minorities, 26 (1 & 2). pp. 19-48. ISSN 0261-9288

Jones, Heather (2008) The German spring reprisals of 1917: prisoners of war and the violence of the Western Front. German history, 26 (3). pp. 335-356. ISSN 0266-3554

Jones, Heather and O'Brien, Jennifer and Schmidt-Supprian, Christoph, (eds.) (2008) Untold war: new perspectives in First World War studies. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789004166592

Jones, Heather and O'Brien, Jennifer and Schmidt-Supprian, Christoph (2008) Untold war. In: Jones, Heather and O'Brien, Jennifer and Schmidt-Supprian, Christoph, (eds.) Untold war: new perspectives in First World War studies . Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9789004166592

2007

Jones, Heather (2007) The 1929 Geneva Convention. In: Pugliese, Elizabeth and Hufford, Larry, (eds.) War crimes and trials: a historical encyclopedia from 1850 to the present. ABC-CLIO Ltd, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781576078907

2006

Jones, Heather (2006) The final logic of sacrifice?: violence in German prisoner of war labor companies in 1918. Historian, 68 (4). pp. 770-792. ISSN 0018-2370

2005

Jones, Heather (2005) Encountering the 'enemy': prisoner of war transport and the development of war cultures in 1914. In: Purseigle, Pierre, (ed.) Warfare and belligerence: perspectives in the First World War studies. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 133-162. ISBN 9004143521

2000

Jones, Heather (2000) How do you assess Rapallo in the context of early German foreign policy. History studies : University of Limerick History Society journal, 2 pp. 84-93. ISSN 1393-7782

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In this groundbreaking new study, Heather Jones provides the first in-depth and comparative examination of violence against First World War prisoners.

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Awards

Max Weber Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence (2007);
Eda Sagarra Medal for excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2007);
Research bursary from the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne (2004);
T.C.D. Gold Medal (2000);
British Council Chevening Scholarship (2000);
Trinity College Dublin Foundation Scholarship (1998)

 

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