PEOPLE – RICHARD JONES
Richard read History and Archaeology at Exeter before moving on to Oxford where he completed his DPhil in 1994. He worked for the Sussex Archaeological Society for five years before taking up a research fellowship at Birmingham in 2000 working on the Whittlewood Project. In 2001 this project relocated to Leicester where he joined the Centre for English Local History. Briefly escaping to Cardiff in 2005 as a Lecturer in Archaeology he returned to ELH as Lecturer in Landscape History the following year and has been there ever since. In 2017 he became Director of the Centre. He is a medieval landscape and environmental historian whose research explores the complex relationships that developed between rural communities and their locales/environments in England, Wales, and France across the whole of the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500AD). His work sits within the interstices of several disciplines including history, archaeology, physical and historical geography, and toponomastics. His studies of place-making, agricultural practice, and responses to environmental threats in medieval England and Wales have been conducted at local, regional, and national scales.
Richard Jones Publications
| Author | Title | Type | Publication | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Dyer and R. Jones (eds.) | Deserted Villages Revisited | Book | Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010 | |
| P. Cullen, R. Jones and D.N. Parsons | Thorps in a Changing Landscape | Book | Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011) | |
| R. Jones | The Medieval Natural World | Book | London: Longman Pearson, 2013 | |
| R. Jones (ed.) | Manure Matters: historical, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives | Book | Farnham: Ashgate, 2012 | |
| R. Jones and M. Page | Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends | Book | Macclesfield: Windgather Press, 2006 | |
| R. Jones and S. Semple (eds.) | Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England | Book | Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2012 | |
| Ben Pears and Richard Jones | Rapid laminated clastic alluviation associated with increased Little Ice Age flooding co-driven by climate variability and historic land-use in the middle Severn catchment, UK. | Paper | The Holocene, 2023 | |
| Ben Pears and Richard Jones | A sub-centennial-scale OSL chronostratigraphy and Late-Holocene flood history from a temperate river confluence | Paper | ||
| B. Pears, A.G. Brown, J. Carroll, P. Toms, J. Wood and R. Jones | Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories: A New Approach and New Chronostratigraphic Records for Three English Rivers | Paper | European Journal of Archaeology, 2020 | |
| Carenza Lewis and Richard Jones | The Midlands: Medieval Settlements and Landscapes | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Responding to Modern Flooding: Old English Place-Names as a Repository of Traditional Ecological Knowledge | Paper | Journal of Ecological Anthropology 18 (2016) | |
| Richard Jones | Vers une comprehension du fumier et de la fumure médiévale: quelques enseignements d’Angleterre | Paper | in M. Conesa and N. Poirier (eds), Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets et Moderne, Flaran 38 (Toulouse: Presse Universitaires du Midi, 2019) | |
| Richard Jones | The Elemental (Re)turn: the Archaeology of Elemental Philosophy and Humoral Principles | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Gerard’s Herball and the treatment of the war-wounded and diseased during the English Civil War | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | The village and the butterfly: nucleation out of chaos and complexity | Paper | Landscapes, 11.1 (2010) | |
| Richard Jones | Manure and the medieval social order | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Place-names in Landscape Archaeology | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Archaeology and Place-Names | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Re-politicising Local History | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | The Nature of Things | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Signatures in the Soil: the use of pottery in manure scatters in the identification of medieval arable farming regimes | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Changing Settlements and Landscapes: Medieval Whittlewood, its Predecessors and Successors | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Contrasting patterns of village and hamlet desertion in England | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Rethinking Old English Toponyms | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Directional names in the early medieval landscape | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Hunting for the meaning of the place-name Upton | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Elemental theory in everyday practice: food disposal in the later medieval English countryside | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Thinking through the manorial affix: people and place in later medieval England | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | Oh Shit! | Paper | The published version of this paper can be accessed here | |
| Richard Jones | Landscape History and the Unmaking of the English Landscape | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones | L’impact des diasporas sur les Iles Britanniques: l’histoire, l’archeologie, et la genetique | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones and Paul Cullen | Thorps and the open fields: a new hypothesis from England | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones and Paul Cullen | Contrasting patterns of village and hamlet desertion in England | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones and Susan Kilby | Mitigating river flood risk in medieval England | Paper | ||
| Richard Jones, Rebecca Gregory, Susan Kilby, and Ben Pears | Living with a Trespasser: riparian names and medieval settlement on the River Trent floodplain | Paper | European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies, 7 (2017) | |
| R. Jones and C. Dyer (eds.) | Farmers, Innovators, Consumers: the World of Joan Thirsk | Book | Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017 | |
| Richard Jones | Settlement archaeology and place-names | Paper | n J. Carroll, & D. N. Parsons (eds.), Perceptions of Place: Twenty-first Century Interpretations of English Place-Name Studies (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2013) | |