The University of Western Australia

Dr David Barrie

Lecturer
History

Contact details

Address

History
The University of Western Australia (M208)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 3401

Fax

6488 1069

Email

david.barrie@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room G16, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BA Stir., PhD Strath.

Biography

B.A. (Hons), University of Stirling; Ph.D., University of Strathclyde.
Previously, I lectured in history at Glasgow Caledonian University and held a research fellowship with the Economic and Social Research Council. My teaching interests include Industrial Britain, crime and punishment and leisure.

Key research

My research interests include:

eighteenth- and nineteenth-century criminal justice history, British history and Scottish history; leisure and recreation; urban history; and the history of masculinity.

Publications

Books:
•David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Crime, Control and Community (Ashgate, 2012)
•David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, eds, A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010 (Routledge, 2012).
•David G. Barrie, Police in the Age of Improvement. Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865 (Willan Publishing, Cullompton, 2008), 307 pages, pp.1-307. Awarded ‘Best First Book’ by the International Judging Committee of the Frank Watson Prize for Best Book in Scottish History (2008-09).

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
•David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, ‘Public Men, Private Interests? The Development, Structure and Practice of Police Courts in Scotland, 1800 to 1833’, Continuity and Change, Cambridge University Press (to be published in 27:1, 2012).
•David G. Barrie, ‘Anglicisation and Autonomy: Scottish Policing, Governance and the State, 1833 to 1885’, Law and History Review, Cambridge University Press (to be published in Volume 30, 2012).
•David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, ‘The Changing of the Guard: Policing and Masculinity in Enlightenment Scotland’, Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Western Australia Press, UWA Press, 28:1 (March, 2011).
•David G. Barrie, ‘A Typology of British Police: Locating the Scottish Municipal Police Model in its British Context, 1800-1835’, British Journal of Criminology, Oxford University Press, Volume 50, No.2 (March, 2010), pp.259-277.
•David G. Barrie, ‘Police in Civil Society: Police, Enlightenment and Civic Virtue in Scotland, 1780-1833’, Urban History, Cambridge University Press, Volume 37:1 (May, 2010), pp.45-65.
•David G. Barrie, ‘Scottish Police Records and their Value for the Historian’, Scottish Archives: The Journal of the Scottish Records Association, Edinburgh University Press (Volume 16, 2010), pp.51-69.
•David G. Barrie, ‘Patrick Colquhoun, the Scottish Enlightenment and Police Reform in Glasgow in the Late Eighteenth Century’, Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/Crime, History & Societies, 12:2 (Published by the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Paris, 2008), pp.59-79.
•David G. Barrie, ‘Epoch-Making Beginnings to Lingering Death: The Struggle for Control of the Glasgow Police Commission, 1833-46’, Scottish Historical Review, Volume LXXXVI, 2: No. 222 (Edinburgh University Press, October 2007), pp.253-277.

Chapters in Edited Collections:
•David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, ‘Making Men: Media, Magistrates and the Representation of Masculinity in Scottish Police Courts, 1800-1835’, in David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, eds, A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010 (contracted to Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, forthcoming 2011).
•David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, ‘Policing Bodies in Urban Scotland, 1780-1850,’ in Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent, eds, Governing Masculinities: Regulating Selves and Others in the Early Modern Period (Ashgate, 2011).
•David G. Barrie, ‘Urban Order in Georgian Dundee, c.1770-1820’, in C.A. MacKean, B. Harris and Chris Whatley eds, Dundee: From Renaissance to Enlightenment (Dundee University Press, 2009), pp.216-242.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Lecturer/Researcher with expertise in nineteenth-century urban history, Scottish history and criminal justice history.

Funding received

I have attracted over $250,000 in competitive research funding, the most recent of which includes:
• $30,000 from the University of Western Australia, Research Development Awards Scheme (2010) for a project entitled ‘Prosecution and Punishment in the Age of Enlightenment: The Scottish Experience 1747-87’.
• $150,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom for a project entitled ‘The Origins and Development of Police in Scotland and its Impact upon Urban Governance, 1799-1859’ (2006-07). Reference: RES-000-22 1758.
• July 2006 to July 2007:
£78,000: Economic and Social Research Council Grant in the UK (£62,000 contribution) for project entitled ‘The Origins and Development of Police in Scotland and its Impact upon Urban Governance, 1799-1859’ (Reference: RES-000-22-1758).
• October 1997 to May 2000:
Postgraduate Studentship: Economic and Social Research Council (R00429734381).

Memberships

• Member of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Steering Committee, University of Western Australia.
• Member of Editorial Committee of the A-Ranked Journal Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
• Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Early Modern Studies.
• Member of the Organising Committee for the XXIInd Biennial Australasian Association for European History Conference.

Honours and awards

Prosecution and Punishment in Enlightenment Scotland

Previous positions

January 2004 to July 2007:
•Lecturer/Researcher in History and Criminology, School of Law and Social Sciences, Division of History and Division of Law, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Before then, I held a number of part-time teaching contracts at different universities.

Teaching

My teaching interests include Industrial Britain, crime and punishment and leisure in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Current Teaching:
2009 Semester 2:
Pleasure and Pain: A Social History of Leisure and Recreation 1700-1914 (HIST7484 and MEMS8405); Plagues, Pox and Pandemics: The History of Death and Disease (IMEDD2207); and Medieval Europe c.750-1250 (HIST1111).
2010 Semester 1:
Crime and Punishment in Britain 1700-1900 (HIST2248); Texts and Approaches: Reading the Pre-Modern World: Module entitled ‘Legal Readings and Criminal Records’ (MEMS8401); and Historiography: Module 2 ‘Social History’.

Current PhD Supervision:
• Chris Owen, ‘“Weather Hot, Flies…” Police in the Kimberley District, 1883-1905’.
•Margaret Dorey, ‘“Poison in the pot”: English concerns about food purity and regulation c. 1500-1800’.

Current projects

Currently working with Susan Broomhall on police courts in nineteenth-century Scotland.

Research profile

Research profile and publications