Janet Douglas (historian)

Janet Douglas (February 1943 – 4 November 2024) was an English historian and academic whose later work focused on the city of Leeds in the modern period, particularly art history and architecture. She was Principal Lecturer of Politics and Social History at Leeds Polytechnic, later Leeds Metropolitan University and now Leeds Beckett University. She was active in local Leeds societies including The Victorian Society, the Ford-Maguire Society, the Thoresby Society, the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society and regularly gave lectures and guided walks on a wide range of subjects.

Selected publications

• India's democracy (with Albert Hanson (academic)) (1972)
• Leeds. 1, The Bank, Yorkshire Archaeological Society (with Ken Powell) (c1981)
• Cookridge Street, Gt. George Street & planning platitudes, Victorian Society West Yorkshire Group (with Ken Powell) (1982)
• Leeds: Three Suburban Walks (with Ken Powell and Chris Hammond) (1987)
• Leeds : three architectural walks, The Victorian Society (with Ken Powell) (1988).
• St John's Church Leeds : a history (with Ken Powell) (1993)
• Leeds places of worship trail, Leeds Civic Trust (1996)
• Leeds and the Public Patronage of Fine Art Act, 1809-1888, Publications of the Thoresby Society, 2nd series 11 (2001)
• Prince Alamayu (c2007)
• Sir Edward Baines (c2007)
• Lucy Beckett (c2007)
• Thomas Harding (c2007)
• John Hope Shaw (c2008)
• Blanche Legat Leigh (c2008)
• Elinor Lupton (c2008)
• Joseph Pickersgill (c2008)
• Lilian Stiles-Allen (c2008)
• Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (c2008)
• A lasting moment : Marc Riboud photographs Leeds 1954 (with Marc Riboud, Anna Douglas, Caryl Phillips (2008)
• Bibliography of the History of Leeds (with Jim Morgan) (2011)
• British Labour and the Russian Revolution: The Leeds Convention of 1917 (co-edited with Christian Hogsbjerg with Ken Coates's original introduction) about the Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates in 1917 (2017)
• Charles B Howdill (2018)
• 'Zionism in Leeds 1892-1939' in Leeds and its Jewish Community (edited by Derek Fraser) (2019)

External links

• Funeral notice
• Guardian contribution (2013)
• Pictures of Leeds (2014)
• Lady Members of the Leeds Library 1768-1914 (lecture by Janet Douglas to the Thoresby Society, 2021)
• The Irish in Leeds before 1914 (lecture by Janet Douglas to the Thoresby Society, 2023)