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B.A. (Hons), University of Stirling; Ph.D., University of Strathclyde Tel: (61 8) 6488 3401
Fax: (61 8) 6488 1069
Rm: G.16, Arts Building
Email: dbarrie@arts.uwa.edu.au
Teaching & Research
Interests
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century criminal justice history, British history and Scottish history; leisure and recreation; urban history; and the history of masculinity. Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Books:
David G. Barrie, Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland 1775-1865 (Willan Publishing, 2008), 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).
Book Chapters:
David G. Barrie, 'Urban Order in Georgian Dundee, c.1770-1820', in C.A. MacKean and B. Harris, eds, History of Dundee, 1500-1800 (Dundee University Press, publication date: September 2009).
Refereed Journal Articles:
David G. Barrie, Police in Civil Society: Police, Enlightenment and Civic Virtue in Scotland, 1780-1833', Urban History (accepted for publication in December 2008. Publication date December 2009/March 2010) David G. Barrie, 'Patrick Colquhoun, the Scottish Enlightenment and Police Reform in Glasgow in the Late Eighteenth Century', Crime, Histoire & Societes/Crime, History & Societies, 12:2 (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 (October 2007, Edinburgh University Press), pp.253-277. Current Research Projects Currently working with Susan Broomhall (with Joanne McEwan and Iain C. Hutchison as associate researchers) on police courts in nineteenth-century Scotland and an edited collection on the history of police and masculinity. These projects will result in the publication of two books, provisionally entitled: David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, eds, A History of Police and Masculinity, 1500-2000 (expected publication date: 2011). David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, Police Courts: The Scottish Experience, 1800-1800 (expected publication date: 2011). Also working on: Prosecution and punishment in Enlightenment Scotland.
The Scottish municipal police model and its relationship with other models.
Scottish county policing 1815-1859 (with Annie Tindley, Glasgow Caledonian University). Research Funding:
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 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. Memberships
Member of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Steering Committee.
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. Teaching:2009
Semester 2:
Pleasure and Pain: A Social History of Leisure and Recreation 1700-1914 (HIST7487 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'. | 
