Katie Barclay

Visiting Research Fellow, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Australia

Katie Barclay is a future fellow and professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and a visiting research fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, both in Australia. She is the author of Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 (Manchester, 2011); Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity, 1800-1845 (Manchester, 2019); A History of Emotions: A Student Guide to Sources and Methods (Basingstoke, 2020); Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self (Oxford, 2021), Academic Emotions: Feeling the Institution (Cambridge, 2021); and, with Leanne Downing, Memes, Emotions and the Making of History (Cambridge, 2023).

Written by Katie Barclay

Early 20th-century colour photo of a family sitting and standing outside a rustic building on a cobblestone street.

The history of family offers a liberating view of custom and love

Chronicling the families of the past shows just how much family values, feelings and decision-making can morph over time

by Katie Barclay