Andrew Barber is a former British Diplomat who served in Africa and Asia before settling in KL 20 years ago to run a security company. He studied History at Pembroke College Cambridge (his father and daughter are alumni of the same college) before joining a division of the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Over the past ten years he has turned author, specialising in Malaysian history including Colonial Penang – 1786-1957; Penang at War; KL at War, 1939-1945; and Doris van der Stratten. He will discuss sources, historiography, and research, followed by a Q & A on the pleasure, pain, and peril of writing history!
‘Teasing out the Past. Unravelling the story of Doris van der Stratten’ by Andrew Barber
Andrew Barber is a former British Diplomat who served in Africa and Asia before settling in KL 20 years ago to run a security company. He studied History at Pembroke College Cambridge (his father and daughter are alumni of the same college) before joining a division of the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Over the past ten years he has turned author, specialising in Malaysian history including Colonial Penang – 1786-1957; Penang at War; KL at War, 1939-1945; and Doris van der Stratten. He will discuss sources, historiography, and research, followed by a Q & A on the pleasure, pain, and peril of writing history!