Hannah Barker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3603633 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hannah Barker |
| NOMBRES | Hannah |
| APELLIDO | Barker |
| FIRMA | BARKER H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0405-2209 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Tatars of the Sūdān
Scholars in the medieval Islamicate world occasionally compared peoples of the far south and the far north, referencing their barbarity to illustrate the effects of extreme climate on human bodies and societies. This article discusses a specific north-south comparison: the portrayal of the Damādim as “the Tatars of the Sūdān,” introduced by Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī in his thirteenth-century geography. He used it to connect the Chinggisid devastation…
Take nothing for granted
Special Issues can surprise and frustrate in equal measure. Editorial expectations are often upended. The submissions imagined are not always those received or in the numbers anticipated. The questions that frame the call for papers seldom carry the same weight at the beginning and end of the editorial process. Yet somehow the academic publishing industry survives and thrives, commodifying scholarly inquiry based on virtually free labour inputs. …
R. J. Morris
Effects of cigarette price and packaging on hypothetical quit-smoking behaviour
Results suggest raising cigarette prices to at least 30 000 VND, implementing larger graphic HWLs or plain packaging could decrease smoking rates in Vietnam
The Risk of Birth
Why did fifteenth-century Genoese slaveholders insure the lives of enslaved pregnant women? I argue that their assessment of the risks associated with childbirth reflected their views on the connection between slavery, property, and lineage. Genoese slaveholders saw the reproductive labor of enslaved women as a potential contribution to their lineage as well as their property. Because their children by enslaved women might become their heirs, Gen…
Laying the Corpses to Rest
When, how, and why did the Black Death reach Europe? Historians have relied on Gabriele de’ Mussi’s account of Tatars catapulting plague-infested bodies into the besieged city of Caffa on the Crimean Peninsula. Yet Mussi spent the 1340s in Piacenza; he had no direct knowledge of events in Caffa. Sources by people present in the Black Sea during the Second Pandemic, including Genoese colonial administrators, Venetian diplomats, Byzantine chronicle…
Taking Money from Strangers
Selling to strangers was a significant occupational hazard for retailers in late Georgian Britain, one that was hard to avoid. The dangers were especially great in larger towns and cities, where shopkeepers were dependent on a steady stream of passing trade composed of a large number of customers that they did not know. Though traders risked financial loss and even possible prosecution by accepting counterfeit banknotes, refusal to accept them me…
That Most Precious Merchandise
The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and…
Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity
Global economic inequality and health
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”- Martin Luther King Jr Martin Luther King Jr’s quote delineates the inhumanity of unjust and unequal he
A Companion to Medieval Genoa
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Slavery in Medieval Europe
Common knowledge would have it that slavery did not exist in medieval Europe. However, there is a thriving body of scholarship which demonstrates that slavery was practiced widely in various forms in Europe during the Middle Ages, alongside captivity, serfdom, and other types of unfreedom. Where then did the common knowledge come from? In the first instance, it derives from the late-18th- and 19th-century abolitionist assumption that as Christian…
Cooperation, Duty, and Love
This chapter explores the emotional life of families and suggests that familial relations were not governed solely or largely by duty and self-interest. An examination of the personal testimonies of men and women in trade reveals the extent to which close family members were bound together by emotional attachments, and, in particular, by love. This was most evident in relationships between spouses, and between parents and their children, though i…
Family and Business
This chapter explores the concept of ‘family strategy’ among those in trade, particularly concerning business. Although it shows that internal dynamics within families might sometimes be difficult, and that the possibility of unseemly fallings-out between individuals was very real, it also demonstrates the pervasive belief that familial relationships should be based on duty, love and trust and that family members should work together to ensure a …
Conclusion
The conclusion summarizes the main findings of the book, and explores the reasons why tradesmen and women appear to have been overlooked by historians. The lack of attention can be explained in part by their tendency not to leave a significant mark on the historical record. In addition, the failure of shopkeepers and small-scale manufacturers to excite subsequent scholars more interested in those obvious motors of social and economic change—the w…
Wealth-Holding and Investment
This chapter explores how traders managed and invested their wealth by examining their wills. Businesses and real estate tended to constitute their most valuable possessions, which might suggest an aversion to risk among those in trade. However, this seems likely to have been the result of pragmatism, based on rates of return and the paucity of other forms of investment. As other possibilities became more accessible to the trading classes from th…
Family and Inheritance
This chapter focuses on the beneficiaries of wills and the motivations of testators, arguing that will-making was primarily driven by a desire to control one’s property in accordance with a set of social norms that were powerfully influenced by religious belief and a sense of duty towards one’s immediate family, and particularly those who were considered to be dependants. This meant making sure that wives and children were provided for, that ther…
Home, Business, and Household
This chapter examines the buildings occupied by trading households, where the commercial and the domestic continued to coexist under the same roof throughout the period of the Industrial Revolution. It explores the numbers of individuals who lived and worked together in these households, the structures and internal layouts of the houses that they occupied, and the possible uses of the different rooms within them, as suggested by practices of room…
Family and Household
This chapter explores individual experiences of space by examining personal testimony. Hierarchies within trading households were often expressed in terms of access to different interior spaces. Though gender was a powerful organizational concept among those in trade, generational hierarchies seem more important in terms of the control of space. Variations between households were linked both to different understandings of the family, and to the p…
Christianities in Conflict
Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution
Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet, despite their significance, we know surprisingly little about these firms and the people who ran them, for, while those engaged in craft-based manufacturing, …
Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855
This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated at every level of English life. Newspapers, Politics and English Society 1695-1855 provides a unique insight into the political and social history of e…
Inheritance and continuity in small family businesses during the early industrial revolution
Explanations for the rapid turnover rates of small businesses during the early years of British industrialisation are usually framed in terms of mismanagement or misfortune. More recently, the short lifespans of family businesses have been presented in the context of family ambitions and priorities. Whilst these explanations are persuasive, such studies tend to describe a reluctance to continue the family firm after the death of the head of house…
Women and their money 1700–1950
Women and their money 1700–1950: essays on women and finance, edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford, London and New York, Routledge, 2009, xvii + 309 pp., £80.00 (hardbac
Living above the Shop
This article explores the living arrangements and familial relations of small business households in northwest English towns between 1760 and 1820. Focusing on evidence from inventories and personal writing, it examines the homes that such households lived and worked in and the ways in which space was ordered and used: indicating that access to particular spaces was determined by status. This study suggests both the continuance of the ‘‘household…
Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution
Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet, despite their significance, we know surprisingly little about these firms and the people who ran them, for, while those engaged in craft-based manufacturing, …
Inheritance and continuity in small family businesses during the early industrial revolution
Explanations for the rapid turnover rates of small businesses during the early years of British industrialisation are usually framed in terms of mismanagement or misfortune. More recently, the short lifespans of family businesses have been presented in the context of family ambitions and priorities. Whilst these explanations are persuasive, such studies tend to describe a reluctance to continue the family firm after the death of the head of house…
Laying the Corpses to Rest
When, how, and why did the Black Death reach Europe? Historians have relied on Gabriele de’ Mussi’s account of Tatars catapulting plague-infested bodies into the besieged city of Caffa on the Crimean Peninsula. Yet Mussi spent the 1340s in Piacenza; he had no direct knowledge of events in Caffa. Sources by people present in the Black Sea during the Second Pandemic, including Genoese colonial administrators, Venetian diplomats, Byzantine chronicle…
Medical advertising and trust in late Georgian England
This article explores the nature of trust in the fast growing and rapidly changing urban environments of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England through an examination of medical advertisements published in newspapers in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield between 1760 and 1820. The ways in which medicines were promoted suggest not just a belief that the market in medicines operated both rationally and fairly, but also a conc…
Soul, purse and family
The historiography of British masculinity currently presents a rather abrupt picture of change during the modern era, with the 'long' eighteenth century differing fundamentally from the centuries that precede and follow it. While the majority of early modern historians, and many of those studying the period from 1800, pursue a social history approach and emphasize the importance of the household and religion in their descriptions of manliness, ma…
Smoke cities’
The industrial towns of northern England have been largely overlooked during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This article examines newspaper advertising, directories, public building and improvement in Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield and identifies a middling, consumerist society, where urban culture was firmly rooted in the localities in which it developed. The nature of this culture challenges simplistic understandings of me…
Take nothing for granted
Special Issues can surprise and frustrate in equal measure. Editorial expectations are often upended. The submissions imagined are not always those received or in the numbers anticipated. The questions that frame the call for papers seldom carry the same weight at the beginning and end of the editorial process. Yet somehow the academic publishing industry survives and thrives, commodifying scholarly inquiry based on virtually free labour inputs. …
The Risk of Birth
Why did fifteenth-century Genoese slaveholders insure the lives of enslaved pregnant women? I argue that their assessment of the risks associated with childbirth reflected their views on the connection between slavery, property, and lineage. Genoese slaveholders saw the reproductive labor of enslaved women as a potential contribution to their lineage as well as their property. Because their children by enslaved women might become their heirs, Gen…
Taking Money from Strangers
Selling to strangers was a significant occupational hazard for retailers in late Georgian Britain, one that was hard to avoid. The dangers were especially great in larger towns and cities, where shopkeepers were dependent on a steady stream of passing trade composed of a large number of customers that they did not know. Though traders risked financial loss and even possible prosecution by accepting counterfeit banknotes, refusal to accept them me…
Slavery in Medieval Europe
Common knowledge would have it that slavery did not exist in medieval Europe. However, there is a thriving body of scholarship which demonstrates that slavery was practiced widely in various forms in Europe during the Middle Ages, alongside captivity, serfdom, and other types of unfreedom. Where then did the common knowledge come from? In the first instance, it derives from the late-18th- and 19th-century abolitionist assumption that as Christian…
Women and their money 1700–1950
Women and their money 1700–1950: essays on women and finance, edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford, London and New York, Routledge, 2009, xvii + 309 pp., £80.00 (hardbac
Living above the Shop
This article explores the living arrangements and familial relations of small business households in northwest English towns between 1760 and 1820. Focusing on evidence from inventories and personal writing, it examines the homes that such households lived and worked in and the ways in which space was ordered and used: indicating that access to particular spaces was determined by status. This study suggests both the continuance of the ‘‘household…
Sleepless Souls. Suicide in early Modern England (Book)
Catering for Provisional Tastes
Journal Article Catering for Provisional Tastes: Newspapers, Readership and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century England Get access Hannah Barker Hannah Barker University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 69, Issue 168, February 1996, Pages 42–61, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1996.tb01841.x Published: 12 October 2007
Newspapers, politics, and public opinion in late eighteenth-century England
Newspaper Politics in the Capital
This chapter examines the ways in which the press was run and the degree to which its contents were politically manipulated. Looking at the newspapers' finances, it argues that attracting readers was of more importance to editors than receiving political bribes and that the contents of the capital's newspapers were shaped accordingly. London newspapers in the 1780s were overtly political and seemed obsessed with high politics. Meanwhile, the poli…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES HANNAH BARKER HANNAH BARKER University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 452, June 1998, Pages 751-b–753, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.452.751-b Published: 01 June 1998
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access HANNAH BARKER HANNAH BARKER University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 451, April 1998, Pages 499–500, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.451.499 Published: 01 April 1998
Gender in Eighteenth-Century England
Shorter notice. Newspapers and Nationalism
Journal Article Shorter notice. Newspapers and Nationalism: The Irish Provincial Press. Marie-Louise Legg Get access H Barker H Barker University of Keele, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 460, February 2000, Page 231, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.460.231 Published: 01 February 2000
Shorter notice. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. Don Herzog
Journal Article Shorter notice. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. Don Herzog Get access H Barker H Barker University of Keele, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 460, February 2000, Pages 221–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.460.221 Published: 01 February 2000
Macleod, A War of Ideas
Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870, Katrina Honeyman
Journal Article Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700–1870, Katrina Honeyman Get access Hannah Barker Hannah Barker University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 729–730, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.729 Published: 01 June 2001
Women's History, Britain 1700-1850
Smoke cities’
The industrial towns of northern England have been largely overlooked during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This article examines newspaper advertising, directories, public building and improvement in Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield and identifies a middling, consumerist society, where urban culture was firmly rooted in the localities in which it developed. The nature of this culture challenges simplistic understandings of me…
Women in business, 1700-1850 - Nicola Phillips
Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth‐Century Europe
Soul, purse and family
The historiography of British masculinity currently presents a rather abrupt picture of change during the modern era, with the 'long' eighteenth century differing fundamentally from the centuries that precede and follow it. While the majority of early modern historians, and many of those studying the period from 1800, pursue a social history approach and emphasize the importance of the household and religion in their descriptions of manliness, ma…
Medical advertising and trust in late Georgian England
This article explores the nature of trust in the fast growing and rapidly changing urban environments of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England through an examination of medical advertisements published in newspapers in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield between 1760 and 1820. The ways in which medicines were promoted suggest not just a belief that the market in medicines operated both rationally and fairly, but also a conc…
A Grocer's Tale
This article examines the diary of George Heywood, a journeyman grocer turned small shopkeeper, who moved to Manchester from Huddersfield in 1809. Heywood's modest lifetime ambitions were to own a grocery shop and find a companionable wife. As a lower‐middle‐class man of humble means and limited ambitions, Heywood does not fit the heroic mould of those working‐class diarists and autobiographers of the nineteenth century that have more readily cap…
A pleasing prospect
Women and their money 1700–1950
Women and their money 1700–1950: essays on women and finance, edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford, London and New York, Routledge, 2009, xvii + 309 pp., £80.00 (hardbac
Living above the Shop
This article explores the living arrangements and familial relations of small business households in northwest English towns between 1760 and 1820. Focusing on evidence from inventories and personal writing, it examines the homes that such households lived and worked in and the ways in which space was ordered and used: indicating that access to particular spaces was determined by status. This study suggests both the continuance of the ‘‘household…
Inheritance and continuity in small family businesses during the early industrial revolution
Explanations for the rapid turnover rates of small businesses during the early years of British industrialisation are usually framed in terms of mismanagement or misfortune. More recently, the short lifespans of family businesses have been presented in the context of family ambitions and priorities. Whilst these explanations are persuasive, such studies tend to describe a reluctance to continue the family firm after the death of the head of house…
Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855
This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated at every level of English life. Newspapers, Politics and English Society 1695-1855 provides a unique insight into the political and social history of e…
Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution
Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet, despite their significance, we know surprisingly little about these firms and the people who ran them, for, while those engaged in craft-based manufacturing, …
Cooperation, Duty, and Love
This chapter explores the emotional life of families and suggests that familial relations were not governed solely or largely by duty and self-interest. An examination of the personal testimonies of men and women in trade reveals the extent to which close family members were bound together by emotional attachments, and, in particular, by love. This was most evident in relationships between spouses, and between parents and their children, though i…
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