Harold Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 246273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2639-3503 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Good Friends Meet Again
In his fifteenth-century memoir, the Venetian patrician Giosafat Barbaro reflected on a pair of surprising turns in his friendships with Tatars and his experiences of identifying and being identified by them. These turns reflect a broader pattern of dynamic balance in the complex web of late medieval Tatar–Venetian power relations
R. J. Morris
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…
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
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
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…
Shorter notice. Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade… Ferdinand
Accepted
Newspapers, politics, and public opinion in late eighteenth-century England
Dating methods in archaeology
The accuracy of radiocarbon dates
This article deals in detail with the various factors which affect the accuracy of radiocarbon dates. The familiar “error term” associated with each date and which caused so much confusion to users of radiocarbon dates in the early days of the method is derived from the statistical uncertainties of the measurements of radioactivity from which the date is calculated and is the only source of error which is capable of strict mathematical treatment.…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements VII
Dates listed below are based on measurements made from June 1968 to May 1970 by the liquid scintillation technique using benzene. In general, the experimental procedure is as described previously (Barker, Burleigh, and Meeks, 1969a) with a few changes in detail. Data are now processed by computer using a comprehensive Algol program written by Andrew Barker, King's College, Univ. of London. There is no need to standardize on any particular sample …
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements VI
Dates listed below are based on measurements made up to May 1968, and cover a period during which the technique of gas proportional counting using CO 2 was gradually replaced by liquid scintillation counting using benzene. The gas counting measurements were carried out by the method and techniques previously described (Barker and Mackey, 1968) the only modifications being the replacement of some old electronic units by more stable solid-state equ…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements V
The dates detailed below are based on measurements made from September 1962 to August 1964. Work was often seriously interrupted due to difficulties with electronic equipment and also, from the late summer of 1963, high levels of tritium in the local water supplies used in the synthesis of acetylene (from nuclear weapons tests) made it difficult to obtain accurate measurements with acetylene as a filling gas for the proportional counter. The gas …
Collection of Specimens for Radiocarbon Dating and Interpretation of Results
Examination of the Ife Bronze Heads
During 1947-48, 17 metal heads from Ife, Nigeria, were cleaned in the British Museum Research Laboratory. Samples were removed which were later analyzed by Dr. A.A. Moss and Mr. H. Barker. The results are given in together with those of the analysis of the head in the British Museum Collection. None of the alloys is a tin bronze, 5 can be described as copper, while the remainder, with one exception, are brasses whose copper zinc rations are 85/15…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements IV
The following list comprises measurements made to the end of September 1961, when the equipment had to be dismantled for removal into new premises at 39 Russell Square, London W.C.1. The technique used is as described previously (Barker and Mackey, 1959) and as in previous lists, the error terms are not based solely on counting statistics but are widened to include contributions of ± 80 yr for possible isotopic fractionation effects and ± 100 yr …
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements III
The third series of radiocarbon measurements made at the British Museum Research Laboratory is reported in the following list. Equipment and method used are as described previously (British Museum I) and, as in previous lists, the error terms are not based solely on counting statistics, but are widened to include contributions of ±80 years for possible isotopic fractionation effects and ±100 years for the de Vries effect. Ages are calculated on a…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements VI
Dates listed below are based on measurements made up to May 1968, and cover a period during which the technique of gas proportional counting using CO 2 was gradually replaced by liquid scintillation counting using benzene. The gas counting measurements were carried out by the method and techniques previously described (Barker and Mackey, 1968) the only modifications being the replacement of some old electronic units by more stable solid-state equ…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements VII
Dates listed below are based on measurements made from June 1968 to May 1970 by the liquid scintillation technique using benzene. In general, the experimental procedure is as described previously (Barker, Burleigh, and Meeks, 1969a) with a few changes in detail. Data are now processed by computer using a comprehensive Algol program written by Andrew Barker, King's College, Univ. of London. There is no need to standardize on any particular sample …
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements III
The third series of radiocarbon measurements made at the British Museum Research Laboratory is reported in the following list. Equipment and method used are as described previously (British Museum I) and, as in previous lists, the error terms are not based solely on counting statistics, but are widened to include contributions of ±80 years for possible isotopic fractionation effects and ±100 years for the de Vries effect. Ages are calculated on a…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements IV
The following list comprises measurements made to the end of September 1961, when the equipment had to be dismantled for removal into new premises at 39 Russell Square, London W.C.1. The technique used is as described previously (Barker and Mackey, 1959) and as in previous lists, the error terms are not based solely on counting statistics but are widened to include contributions of ± 80 yr for possible isotopic fractionation effects and ± 100 yr …
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements V
The dates detailed below are based on measurements made from September 1962 to August 1964. Work was often seriously interrupted due to difficulties with electronic equipment and also, from the late summer of 1963, high levels of tritium in the local water supplies used in the synthesis of acetylene (from nuclear weapons tests) made it difficult to obtain accurate measurements with acetylene as a filling gas for the proportional counter. The gas …
Examination of the Ife Bronze Heads
During 1947-48, 17 metal heads from Ife, Nigeria, were cleaned in the British Museum Research Laboratory. Samples were removed which were later analyzed by Dr. A.A. Moss and Mr. H. Barker. The results are given in together with those of the analysis of the head in the British Museum Collection. None of the alloys is a tin bronze, 5 can be described as copper, while the remainder, with one exception, are brasses whose copper zinc rations are 85/15…
Collection of Specimens for Radiocarbon Dating and Interpretation of Results
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…
The accuracy of radiocarbon dates
This article deals in detail with the various factors which affect the accuracy of radiocarbon dates. The familiar “error term” associated with each date and which caused so much confusion to users of radiocarbon dates in the early days of the method is derived from the statistical uncertainties of the measurements of radioactivity from which the date is calculated and is the only source of error which is capable of strict mathematical treatment.…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements III
The third series of radiocarbon measurements made at the British Museum Research Laboratory is reported in the following list. Equipment and method used are as described previously (British Museum I) and, as in previous lists, the error terms are not based solely on counting statistics, but are widened to include contributions of ±80 years for possible isotopic fractionation effects and ±100 years for the de Vries effect. Ages are calculated on a…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements IV
The following list comprises measurements made to the end of September 1961, when the equipment had to be dismantled for removal into new premises at 39 Russell Square, London W.C.1. The technique used is as described previously (Barker and Mackey, 1959) and as in previous lists, the error terms are not based solely on counting statistics but are widened to include contributions of ± 80 yr for possible isotopic fractionation effects and ± 100 yr …
Examination of the Ife Bronze Heads
During 1947-48, 17 metal heads from Ife, Nigeria, were cleaned in the British Museum Research Laboratory. Samples were removed which were later analyzed by Dr. A.A. Moss and Mr. H. Barker. The results are given in together with those of the analysis of the head in the British Museum Collection. None of the alloys is a tin bronze, 5 can be described as copper, while the remainder, with one exception, are brasses whose copper zinc rations are 85/15…
Collection of Specimens for Radiocarbon Dating and Interpretation of Results
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements V
The dates detailed below are based on measurements made from September 1962 to August 1964. Work was often seriously interrupted due to difficulties with electronic equipment and also, from the late summer of 1963, high levels of tritium in the local water supplies used in the synthesis of acetylene (from nuclear weapons tests) made it difficult to obtain accurate measurements with acetylene as a filling gas for the proportional counter. The gas …
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements VI
Dates listed below are based on measurements made up to May 1968, and cover a period during which the technique of gas proportional counting using CO 2 was gradually replaced by liquid scintillation counting using benzene. The gas counting measurements were carried out by the method and techniques previously described (Barker and Mackey, 1968) the only modifications being the replacement of some old electronic units by more stable solid-state equ…
British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements VII
Dates listed below are based on measurements made from June 1968 to May 1970 by the liquid scintillation technique using benzene. In general, the experimental procedure is as described previously (Barker, Burleigh, and Meeks, 1969a) with a few changes in detail. Data are now processed by computer using a comprehensive Algol program written by Andrew Barker, King's College, Univ. of London. There is no need to standardize on any particular sample …
The accuracy of radiocarbon dates
This article deals in detail with the various factors which affect the accuracy of radiocarbon dates. The familiar “error term” associated with each date and which caused so much confusion to users of radiocarbon dates in the early days of the method is derived from the statistical uncertainties of the measurements of radioactivity from which the date is calculated and is the only source of error which is capable of strict mathematical treatment.…
Dating methods in archaeology
Newspapers, politics, and public opinion in late eighteenth-century England
Shorter notice. Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade… Ferdinand
Accepted
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…
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
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
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…
R. J. Morris
Good Friends Meet Again
In his fifteenth-century memoir, the Venetian patrician Giosafat Barbaro reflected on a pair of surprising turns in his friendships with Tatars and his experiences of identifying and being identified by them. These turns reflect a broader pattern of dynamic balance in the complex web of late medieval Tatar–Venetian power relations
History (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Chemistry (6 works) · Geology (6 works) · Radiocarbon dating (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Nuclear physics (4 works)