Stephen Barker
Author, Presenter and Tour Guide.
Buckinghamshire
info@stephen-barker.co.uk
07775 974 976
ABOUT
My interest lies in promoting people’s understanding of their military heritage, specialising in work relating to the First World War and British Civil Wars. I am a writer, make over fifty presentations per year to a range of different audiences in the south midlands area and operate a number of British Civil Wars tours.
I have worked on behalf of the University of Oxford, the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Banbury Museum and over thirty different organisations over the last twenty years. I am an Arts Council Accreditation Mentor, Advisor to the Museum Memories Project in India and a Trustee of the Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust, here in the UK.
I am the author of two books on First World War themes.
SPEAKING: Presentations and Tours
I give presentations to local history societies, universities and military heritage groups. Here are the details of my latest presentations:
'Women in the
First World War'
Women played many roles in the First World War, including in the military, on the home front, and in factories. This talk aims to highlight these well-trodden paths, but also some lesser-known themes.
'Indians at Victorian Oxford'
The first Indian students to attend the University of Oxford arrived in 1871, and the bridge between Oxford and India has grown stronger ever since. But why did Indian students begin to attend British universities from the middle of the 19th century?
‘ 'Watershed:
Mahatma Gandhi
and the First World War’
In 1914, Mahatma Gandhi considered himself to be a patriotic British Subject. As late as the summer of 1918, Gandhi supported the largest recruitment of Indian soldiers of the war, to fight on behalf of the Empire.