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Dr. Barbara Crosbie is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Durham University, specializing in British social and cultural history with a focus on age relations. She is an active member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and convenes the Social History Society Life Cycle Strand.
Her research examines how age relations intersect with gender, rank, and place in eighteenth-century England, exploring concepts of authenticity, nationhood, and domesticity. Current work includes the microhistory Age and Masculinity: At Home with Ralph Jackson 1749-1791, tracing one man's life course through home construction as masculine performance. Future projects investigate 'youthquakes' and youth culture in the British Empire (1760-1820), analyzing age relations in identity construction across gender, class, race, and locality.
Her publications demonstrate consistent engagement with eighteenth-century British society, particularly Northeast England (Newcastle upon Tyne), revealing methodological innovation through microhistorical approaches to print culture, household dynamics, and popular politics. The corpus shows evolving focus from macro generational studies to intimate life-course analysis while maintaining thematic continuity in age-gender-place intersections.
Dr. Crosbie supervises postgraduate researchers including Jacqueline Brooks (examining non-conformity's impact on family status in seventeenth-eighteenth century Durham) and James Goodwin (analyzing Johan Zoffany's role in the late eighteenth-century British art market). Her academic leadership extends to convening the Social History Society's Life Cycle Strand.
As a core member of Durham's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, she contributes to interdisciplinary research communities focused on pre-modern and early modern historical analysis, particularly through regional studies of Northeast England.
