Helen Patricia Jones née Cashmore (5 September 1926 – July 2018) was a South Australian academic, historian, and author.
She passed her BA (honours) in Political Science and History at the University of Adelaide in 1948,[7] mentored by G. V. "Jerry" Portus.
[11] She returned to her studies in the mid-1960s, submitting her MA thesis The History of commercial education in South Australia with special reference to women in 1969.
She joined the staff of the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College (later to become De Lissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies of the University of South Australia) as History lecturer, and following Portus's example began writing and broadcasting for the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
In 1982 her thesis Women's education in South Australia: Institutional and social developments 1875–1915 was accepted for her PhD.