Inga Jones, BA (Osnabrueck), MPhil, PhD (Selwyn College, Cambridge)

Dr Williams's Centre Associate

Inga Jones is an early modern historian, whose main research interests include religious, political and military developments in early modern Europe, and especially the effect religion had on the conduct of war during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

From July 2008 until November 2011 she was a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Dissenting Academies Project, in which time together with Simon Dixon she created Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia. As well as contributing to the volume A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860, she is the author of a number of historical and biographical articles that form the Encyclopedia.

She is preparing her PhD dissertation for publication with Boydell Press within the Early Modern History Series of the Royal Historical Society, entitled 'A Sea of Blood?' - A Comparative Study of Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641-53, and is an associate editor of the Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, ed. Chad Van Dixhoorn, 6 vols. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

She is in the final stages of completing a Diploma in Library and Information Studies at University College London, and is particularly interested in the impact of digital developments on humanities research. From 2009 until 2011 she was one of the conveners of the London Digital Humanities Group, supported by Queen Mary University.

She is currently on maternity leave, while also working as a freelance researcher.

Principal publications include:

'A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641-53', in Theatres of Violence. The Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity in History, ed. P. Dwyer and L. Ryan (Berghahn, 2012), pp. 63-78
'Holy War'? Religion, Ethnicity and Massacre during the Irish Rebellion, 1641- 2', in The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion, ed. E. Darcy, A. Margey and E. Murphy (Pickering & Chatto, 2012)
Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-52, gen. ed. C. Van Dixhoorn, ass. eds. Mark Garcia, Joel Halcomb and Inga Jones, 6 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2012)
'War, Violence and Laws of War - Military Apprenticeship and Practice in Early Modern Britain and Ireland', Historical Journal, 53:3 (2010), 795-804