Staff profile

Barbara specialises in British social and cultural history, with a particular interest in age relations. A monograph published in May 2020 investigates generational transition in eighteenth-century England, looking at how experiences of age were enmeshed with perceptions of gender, rank, and place, and the extent to which these conflated social categories influenced attitudes towards concepts of authenticity, nationhood, patriarchy, domesticity, and progress. Two current projects look at the use of domestic space over the life course and the longevity of sibling relationship. Her future research plans are focused on youth culture and the concept of ‘youthquakes’, and will investigate the part age relations played in the construction of identities in the British Empire c.1760-1820, with specific reference to gender, class, race, nationhood, and locality. 

Barbara is Book Review Editor for Continuity and Change and is also a convenor of the Social History Society Life Cycle Strand.　

• Age relations, life cycle, youth transition
• Household and family
• Print culture, education, geo-social relations, popular politics
• Gender and Sexuality

• Britain and Continental Europe
• Early Modern
• Gender and Sexuality

Authored book

• Crosbie, Barbara (2020). Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England. Boydell & Brewer.

Chapter in book

• Crosbie, Barbara (2020). Between the Broadside Ballad and the Folksong: Print and Popular Songs in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle upon Tyne. In Music in North East England, 1500-1800. Carter, Stephanie, Gibson, Kirsten & Southey, Roz Boydell.
• Green, Adrian & Crosbie, Barbara (2019). Beyond Coal and Class: Culture and the Economy. In The Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800. Crosbie, Barbara & Green, Adrian Boydell Press. 1-20.
• Crosbie, Barbara (2018). Provincial Purveyors of Culture: the Print Trade in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle upon Tyne. In Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800. Crosbie, Barbara & Green, Adrian Boydell & Brewer.

Edited book

• Crosbie, Barbara & Green, Adrian (2018). The Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800. Boydell Press.

Journal Article

• Crosbie, Barbara (2013). Anne Fisher's New Grammar: Textbooks and Teaching in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle Upon Tyne. Publishing History LXXIV: 49-65.
• Crosbie, Barbara (2013). Half-Penny Ballads and the Soundscape of Eighteenth-Century Electioneering. Publishing History LXX: 9-31.