Hazel Conway (People’s Parks)

After a career in technical journalism Dr Hazel Conway moved into education where she specialised in architectural and design history, becoming Principal Lecturer, first at Gwent College of Higher Education, then in the School of Art History at Leicester Polytechnic. She was awarded her Ph.D. for her study of Victorian municipal parks. Her published works include Ernest Race, (1982), Design History: a Students’ Handbook, (1987 – as editor and contributor), People’s Parks: The Design and Development of Victorian Parks in Britain, (1991), Public Parks, (1996) and Understanding Architecture: An Introduction to Architecture and Architectural History, (2006), and she wrote for both learned and more popular journals. She lectured widely both in the UK and elsewhere and lead a number of architectural and garden study tours. She was Chair of the Design History Society and on the Executive Committee of the Association of Art Historians. Hazel was also an active member of the Victorian Society and the Garden History Society and later became an independent architectural historian specialising in historic municipal parks, and advising many organisations including the Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage.

Hazel died in December 2017.