Professor Sarah Barber
Professor in HistoryCurrent Teaching
HIST 100, 234, 236, 300, 363, 405, 421
Research Overview
Largely focusing on the seventeenth century, but stretching from 1500 to the present, my research concerns are with the nature of community, its formation and incorporation within or exclusion from community; with the nature of historical knowledge, and the role of the historian. This has been applied to the fields of British and Irish, Scandinavian, Dutch and Spanish European communities; those of the Eastern seaboard of the Americas; and to the exploration of non-traditional source materials to recover historical knowledge.
PhD Supervision Interests
Dr Barber is keen to hear from students interested in working on topics that would fall under the following headings:
The British Isles, especially England and Ireland, in the seventeenth century. Seventeenth-Century English Radicalism and Republicanism. Ethnic Minorities in Early-Modern Europe. The Caribbean in the seventeenth Century.
The Voyages of Abram
20/06/2022 → 20/07/2022
Consultancy
The church and religious worship in the British West Indies
20/10/2021 → …
Research
Being Barbuda - Global Challenges
01/10/2018 → 30/04/2019
Research
Being Black: History in a Box
05/12/2016 → 31/07/2017
Other
English Folk
01/10/2008 → …
Research
Disputatious Societies: The British Caribbean, c.1600-1720
01/01/2008 → …
Research
Ethnicity and the Construction of Prejudice in Premodern Europe c.1200-1700
01/01/2005 → …
Other
The Method of History
01/10/2004 → …
Research
'Digital Docklands'
01/01/1900 → …
Research
Henry Marten revisited
Invited talk
Scotland and the Wider World
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
External Examiner
Examination
Summer Academy in Atlantic History
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
'Contested histories and poisoned heritage: the 17th-century legacy'
Oral presentation
Durham University Medieval and Early Modern Student Association Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
'Naturals and primitives: native right and manorial authority in the Caribbean'
Invited talk
'Dictatorship, liberty, and fish-sticks. Suriname: 1667 and 2011'
Invited talk
'An historian in search of an idiom: Finding a language for the British Caribbean in the seventeenth century'.
Invited talk
Scotland and the 400th anniversary of the Ulster Plantation
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
PhD External Examiner
Examination
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Election to learned society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Election to learned society