Doris Jones-Baker

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]

• Jones-Baker, D. 1974. Old Hertfordshire Calendar.
• Jones-Baker, D. 1977. The Folklore of Hertfordshire.
• Jones-Baker, D. 1987. Tales of Old Hertfordshire.
• Jones-Baker, D. 1989. "Graffito drawing of a medieval window, Welbourn Church, Lincolnshire", Antiquaries Journal 69, 312-314.
• Jones-Baker, D. 1990 A history of the Parish Church of St. Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire
• Jones-Baker, D. (ed) 1991. Hertfordshire in History: Papers presented to Lionel Munby.