Staff Profiles

My academic background is mainly as an empirical labour economist. I held academic posts at Newcastle and Durham before taking up the Jaffrey Chair of Political Economy at the University of Aberdeen which I held until 2016 when I retired and was made Emeritus. In the latter part of my formal career I developed an interest in economic history, and in particular the labour contracts of lead miners in Allendale and the Northern Pennines. I am now continuing to conduct research on the labour market of metal miners in the 18^th and 19^th centuries, and have an interest in how academic work can inform and be informed by Industrial Heritage and Industrial Archaeology.

• Barmby T. Labour Contract Auctions in 19th Century Cornish Tin Mining. In: Economic History Society Annual Conference. 2018, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme: Economic History Society.
• Barmby T. Bingtale and Fathomtale - Lead Miners' Earnings in 19th Century Allendale. In: Presented at the Institute of Historical Research Workshop on Wage Formation in Early Modern Labour Markets. 2016, Institute of Historical Research.
• Barmby T. Records Reunited: Killhope Bargain Books from 1847/8. Friends of Killhope Newsletter 2013, 81.