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Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
I joined The University of Manchester in 2000. Before that I lectured at the University of Keele and Worcester College, Oxford.
My research focuses largely on the late Georgian period and the early industrial revolution in Britain, and on the north of England in particular. However, an interest in local and community history means that I am also active in research on twentieth-century Britain. Some of my early publications were on print culture, popular politics and public opinion and examined the relationship between press and public, and specifically the degree to which social elites could control print and direct the nature of public debate.
More recent research has concentrated on issues of gender, work, family and religious faith in towns. I have assessed the impact of industrialisation on women's employment, and specifically the degree to which the advent of modern capitalism marginalised women workers in my book The Business of Women (2007). My most recent monograph, Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution (2017) builds upon this intervention and examines the concept of 'family strategy' in terms of small family businesses. Family and Business won the Social History Society Book of the Year for 2017. You can find more details of this project as well as an online searchable project website for family and local historians here.
I have recently completed a project on banknote forgery and retailers in London with Sarah Green, and you can find our Open Acess article in the Journal of British Studies. I am currently completing a monograph with Kate Gibson, Jeremy Gregory and Carys Brown on religion in northern English towns, 1740-1830. This will be published by Oxford University Press in 2024/5. The research for this book was funded by the AHRC and you can find further details and some initial findings here. I was also involved in a recent multi-disciplinary AHRC project on the Mary Hamilton papers with David Denison, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Sophie Coulombeau, Cassie Upph, Tino Oudesluijs and Christine Wallis, and am part of a team working on the AHRC-funded 'Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection’ based at the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester and The National Archives.
I have supervised PhD students working on:
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British history, or local and community histories post 1750.
I am chair of Manchester Histories, a charity based at the University of Manchester which works with people and groups in the Greater Manchester area on history and heritage projects.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Barker, H. (PI) & Denison, D. (CoI)
1/12/19 → 30/11/22
Project: Research
Barker, H. (PI)
2/12/18 → 1/12/21
Project: Research
Barker, H. (PI) & Gilmore, A. (CoI)
1/04/17 → 31/03/19
Project: Research
Barker, H. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Barker, H. (Secondee)
Activity: External visiting positions or secondments › Visiting an external non-academic organisation › Research
Barker, H. (Secondee)
Activity: External visiting positions or secondments › Visiting an external non-academic organisation › Research
Barker, H. (Participant)
Impact: Awareness and understanding, Economic, Society and culture
Denison, D. (Creator), Yáñez-Bouza, N. (Creator), Oudesluijs, T. (Creator), Ulph, C. (Creator), Wallis, C. (Creator), Barker, H. (Creator) & Coulombeau, S. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 4 Jan 2023
DOI: 10.48420/21687809, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/The_Mary_Hamilton_Papers_c_1740-c_1850_/21687809 and one more link, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/The_Mary_Hamilton_Papers_c_1740-c_1850_/21687809/2 (show fewer)
Dataset
18/05/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Barker, H., Bancroft, M., Olusoga, D. & Pressler, C.
6/04/22
9 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other