Doris Jones-Baker | |
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Born | 1925 or 1926 |
Died | (aged 94) |
Occupation(s) | Historian Folklorist |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History Folklore |
Sub-discipline | Medieval history Early modern history Folklore History of Hertfordshire |
Doris Whipple Jones-Baker FSA FRSA (c. 1926–7 June 2020) was a British-American historian and folklorist.[1]
Jones-Baker is a graduate of the University of California and George Washington University. She completed her PhD in history at University College London and held a fellowship at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.[2]
Doris initially worked for the US State Department as a historian before she moved to England with her husband, Lionel, in 1960. They settled in Whitwell, Hertfordshire.[3]
Jones-Baker published numerous articles and books on Hertfordshire history and folklore and English medieval graffiti.[1] She served on the council of the Hertfordshire Association for Local History, and the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society. She was a co-editor of Hertfordshire Archaeology and served as a councillor and editorial member of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland.[1]
She was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in March 1982 and was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[1]