Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, 1961 - 1970, Academic years: 1945 - 1946; 1946 - 1947; 1947 - 1948, 1950 - 1951; 1951 - 1952; 1952 - 1953; 1953 - 1954; 1954 - 1955; 1955 - 1956; 1957 - 1958; 1959 - 1960; 1960 - 1961; 1961 - 1962; 1962 - 1963; 1963 - 1964; 1964 - 1965; 1965 - 1966; 1966 - 1967; 1967 - 1968; 1968 - 1969

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Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Documents from this file include: correspondence with C. A. H. James (Secretary of FAHL) on various administrative issues, inclusive of financial support to BSR from Universities; excerpt of The Times (April 10, 1970) with obituary of Jones.

Reference number

AR-02.03.02/42

Dates

Record Keeping: 1961 - 1970
Academic years: 1945 - 1946; 1946 - 1947; 1947 - 1948
1950 - 1951; 1951 - 1952; 1952 - 1953; 1953 - 1954; 1954 - 1955; 1955 - 1956; 1957 - 1958; 1959 - 1960; 1960 - 1961; 1961 - 1962; 1962 - 1963; 1963 - 1964; 1964 - 1965; 1965 - 1966; 1966 - 1967; 1967 - 1968; 1968 - 1969

Conditions Governing Access

Materials in this sub-fonds are restricted until 40 years after creation.

Biographical / Historical

Arnold Hugh Martin Jones FBA (9 March 1904 – 9 April 1970) — known as A. H. M. Jones or Hugo Jones — was a prominent British historian of classical antiquity, particularly of the later Roman Empire. Jones's best-known work, The Later Roman Empire, 284–602 (1964), is considered the definitive narrative history of late Rome and early Byzantium. He published his first book, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, in 1937. In 1946, he was appointed to the chair of the Ancient History department at University College, London. In 1951, he moved to Cambridge University and assumed the same post there. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1947. Jones died of a heart attack in 1970 while traveling by boat to Thessaloniki to give a series of lectures. Nationality: British