| Doris Jones-Baker | |
| Occupation: | Historian Folklorist |
| Discipline: | History Folklore |
| Sub Discipline: | Medieval history Early modern history Folklore History of Hertfordshire |
Doris Whipple Jones-Baker (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. 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.
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.