Goldsmiths - University of London

Jones, Dr Helen FRHistS

Academic qualifications

BA, Hons History, Queen Mary College, University of London 1976
MA, Modern History, Queen Mary College, University of London 1977
PGCE, Institute of Education, University of London 1979
PhD, Bedford College, University of London 1983

Teaching

Second and third year
HT52077A Britain Through the Lens
HT53006A Culture and Society in wartime Britain, 1939-45 (third year special subject)

MA
HT71090A Ways of Screening, Ways of Seeing

Research interests

Modern British History, especially culture and society in the Second World War. I welcome applications from prospective research students in these areas.

Employment

Research Fellow, University of Oxford 1983-85
Lecturer University of Liverpool 1985-1995
Lecturer Goldsmiths College University of London 1995-1999
Senior Lecturer Goldsmiths College University of London 1999-2007
Reader 2007-

Selected publications

British Civilians in the Front Line: Air raids, Productivity and Wartime Culture 1939-1945 (Manchester University Press, 2006). Comments from reviewers include:

‘This is a fascinating study that will do much to increase our understanding of civilian life during the war.’ (Contemporary Review)

‘Helen Jones has made significant use of primary sources to produce a fascinating account of the psychological impact of bombing on industrial workers, and the political imperatives which drove factory owners and government departments to demand continued work during raids to solve the problem of falling production…Overall, I learned as much about the actual experience of ordinary civilians and workers from reading this book, than I have in a number of more sanitised accounts and I would thoroughly recommend it…’ (History Teaching Review)

Women in British Public Life, 1914-1950 (Pearson Education, 2000)

Health and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (Longman, 1994)

Editor and written chapters in Duty and Citizenship: The Correspondence and Papers of Violet Markham, 1896-1953 (The Historians Press 1994)

Editor and contributed chapters in Towards a Classless Society? (Routledge 1997)

Co-edited with Susanne MacGregor and contributed to Social Issues and Party Politics (Routledge 1998)

Co-edited with Jane Millar and contributed to The Politics of the Family (Avebury 1996)

Co-edited with John Lansley and contributed to Social Policy and the City (Avebury 1994)

Professional activities

External
External examiner for BA and MA degrees
Departmental representative on History UK (HE) and member of steering committee
Member of Institute of Historical Research Advisory Council

Within Goldsmiths
Chair Library Users' Group
Member of Academic Board, Academic Development Committee and Human
Resources Committee