My name is Gwen Jones. Gwen is short for Gwenyth.
I am a historian, editor and researcher living in Berlin since 2015. Before that, I lived in Budapest and London. I work on public history and digital humanities projects such as exhibitions and online galleries.
Education
Certificate Managing Digital Archives, International Council on Archives, 2024
PhD in Hungarian literature, London, 2006
MA Central and South-East European Studies, London, 2001
BA Peace Studies, Bradford, 1994
Languages
English (mother tongue)
Advanced: Hungarian (C2), German (C1)
Basic knowledge: Arabic, French, Welsh
Header photo is my Welsh maternal grandparents, parents, aunt and uncle on a camping holiday in Czechoslovakia in 1966. I wrote an article in Hungarian about Western lefties who travelled East during the Cold War, you can read the English text here. Photo donated to Fortepan by me. Source
