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1918-2018: Heather Jones appears on armistice documentary for Radio 4
12 November 2018
UCL History's Professor Heather Jones, who specialises in the history of the First World War, has made a programme for BBC Radio 4 marking the centenary of the armistice.
'Remembering the Silence' aired on Monday, 12 November as part of Armistice 2018. In the programme, Heather argues that although we nowadays tend to think of the armistice as marking the end of the First World War, it is, in fact, better understood as a pause. The war continued in Europe in forms which still shape our modern world: paramilitarism, political assassinations, ethnic cleansing and deportations. As the Supreme Allied Commander, Ferdinand Foch, commented in 1918, "This is not peace: it is an armistice for twenty years."
Armistice 1918 is a week-long series of programmes slated to air from Monday 12 to Friday 16 November. Each programme features a leading historian discussing the legacy and global impact of the 1918 armistice. After airing, the shows will be available to listeners via the BBC iPlayer site.
Heather Jones joined UCL from the London School of Economics in 2018, taking up a position as Professor in Modern and Contemporary European History. Heather works on war cultures 1880-1945 and has a particular expertise in prisoner-of-war studies. Her first monograph, Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Heather was recently made an Associate of the Imperial War Museum's new Institute for the Public Understanding of War.
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