Sarah Barber - Research Portal | Lancaster University

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

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.

Current Teaching

HIST 100, 234, 236, 300, 363, 405, 421

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Publications & Outputs

Published
Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance
Barber, S. (ed.) & Peniston-Bird, C. (ed.), 28/04/2020, London: Routledge. 244 p. (Routledge Guides to using Historical Sources)
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Anthology
Published
Indigeneity and authority in the Lesser Antilles: The Warners revisited
Barber, S. E., 10/05/2018, The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and cultural Interaction in the long seventeenth Century. Roper, L. H. (ed.). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, p. 46-57, 195-197 12 p. (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Published
Fortune’s frowns and the finger of god: deciphering fear in the Caribbean (c. 1600–c. 1720)
Barber, S. E., 04/2016, Fear and the shaping of early American societies. Roper, L. & Henneton, L. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 60-75 16 p. (Early American History Series).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Activities

Scotland and the Wider World
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Summer Academy in Atlantic History
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
'Contested histories and poisoned heritage: the 17th-century legacy'
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

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Press

'In a museum and in everyday life, Washingtonians prepare to resist a racist era'
Press/Media: Research
History beyond the Text - New publication
Press/Media: Research
Dr Sarah Barber awarded funding by the British Academy for Caribbean research
Press/Media: Research

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Current Postgraduate Research Students

Amanda Ralph

Dr Sarah Barber

Research overview

PhD supervision

Current Teaching

Publications & Outputs

Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance

Indigeneity and authority in the Lesser Antilles: The Warners revisited

Fortune’s frowns and the finger of god: deciphering fear in the Caribbean (c. 1600–c. 1720)

Activities

Scotland and the Wider World

Summer Academy in Atlantic History

'Contested histories and poisoned heritage: the 17th-century legacy'

Press

'In a museum and in everyday life, Washingtonians prepare to resist a racist era'

History beyond the Text - New publication

Dr Sarah Barber awarded funding by the British Academy for Caribbean research

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