Tutor information
Sara Barker
Sara Barker is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on printing and news in the first age of print, with particular interests in French printing, translation and book design. She’s Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print at the University of Leeds, and has contributed to media programmes including In Our Time, You’re Dead To Me and Inside Versailles.
Courses
Explore how people and societies, from the ancient world to the 20th century, have understood and coped with crises caused by climatic events or climate change, using evidence from archaeology and economic, social and oral history.