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Dr Katie Barclay

Education

2004-2007:   PhD: Marital Relationships in Scotland 1650-1850, funded by the ESRC

(Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow)

2003-2004:   MPhil in Social History, funded by the ESRC

(Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow)

1999-2003: MA(Hons) in Economic and Social History, upper second class division

(Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow)

Awards and Grants

 2007-2008: Economic History Society Research Fellowship, administered by the Institute of Historical Research and affiliated with the University of Glasgow.

2003-2007:  ESRC 1+3 Research Grant.

2005:  Scottish Women’s History Network Essay Prize.

§  This prize was awarded at SWHN (now Women’s History Scotland) conference in October 2005 for my essay on ‘Marriage in Scottish Literature’ taken from my MPhil dissertation.

2003: Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, Dissertation Prize.

I received prize for best undergraduate dissertation in the Department of Economic and Social History.

 New Research

 I am currently working on a monograph, Love Intimacy and Power: Marital Relationships in Scotland, 1650-1850, based on my thesis, as well as a number of articles. My research interests lie in power relationships within the family, particularly the operation and practice of patriarchy in the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. I take a feminist and postmodern theoretical approach to my work and as such am interested in subjectivity and the presentation of self within historical documents. 

 Publications

 In Press/Forthcoming

§  ‘Negotiating Patriarchy: The Marriage of Anna Potts and Archibald Grant of Monymusk’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, (Forthcoming November 2008).

§   ‘“And Four Years Space they Loveingly Agreed”: Balladry and Early Modern Understandings of Marriage’ in Elizabeth Ewan and Janey Nugent, eds. Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, (Ashgate, Forthcoming September 2008).

§  With Catriona Haston and Rachel McAdams, eds. Historical Perspectives 5th Anniversary Special Edition, E-Sharp, (February 2008).

 Book Reviews

§  Brian Levack, Witch-hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion, Routledge, 2007, Paperback, ISBN 978-0-415-39943-2, pp. xiv + 217; £19.99’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies , (Forthcoming). 

§  Anne-Marie Kilday, Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2007, pp. x +183, Hardback, ISBN 978 0 86193 287 0, £50.00’, Review of Scottish Culture, (Forthcoming 2008).

§  Hugh V. McLachlan, The Kirk, Satan and Salem: A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire (Glasgow, The Grimsay Press, 2006. Pp. 580; Paperback ISBN 1-84530-034-3, £25.00), Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, (Forthcoming 2008). 

§  Mary Prior, Found Hopes Destroyed: Breach of Promise Cases in Shetland 1823-1900, (Lerwick, Shetland Times Ltd, 2005), 84 pp. ISBN 1 904746 09 8, £9.99’, Women’s History Review, 16 (2), (2007), pp. 246-247.

 Popular Works

§  The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1689-1968, (Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Council, Forthcoming), 100pp.

This illustrated book is a colourful, popular history of the Cameronian Regiment from their unique beginnings in the seventeenth century covenanting movement to their disbandment in 1968. This book was researched, written and designed by Katie Barclay and commissioned by South Lanarkshire Council.

 Contributions to Learned Societies 

December 2007 to Present. Economic and Social History Society for Scotland, Treasurer and Secretary. The society produces the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies.

§  January 2004-December 2007. Economic and Social History Society for Scotland, Postgraduate Committee Member.

§  2007-Present Member of the Centre for Gender History, University of Glasgow.

§  2007- Present Women’s History Scotland, Member.

§  June 2006- January 2008. Committee member of Historical Perspectives Postgraduate Society.

§  January 2004- June 2006 Treasurer, website administrator and founding member of Historical Perspectives Postgraduate Society.