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'''Barbara Chesterton''', née '''Wright''', ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'') was a [[companion]] of the [[First Doctor]].

Barbara was born and raised in [[London]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Unearthly Woman (audio story)|An Unearthly Woman]]'') She had a very close relationship with her mother, [[Joan Wright]], when she was growing up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Long Night (short story)|A Long Night]]'') According to one account, [[Barbara Wright's father|her father]] was killed in the early stages of [[World War II]] when she was a child and, after, she carried a [[photo]] of him with her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tell Me You Love Me (short story)|Tell Me You Love Me]]'', ''[[All I Want for Christmas (short story)|All I Want for Christmas]]'') Another account claimed that her father was still alive after the war. [[Barbara Wright's grandmother|Her grandmother]] made her [[honey]] [[pancake]]s when she was young. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Venusian Lullaby (novel)|Venusian Lullaby]]'')

As a child, Barbara spent her summers at the [[Malvern Hills]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (novelisation)|The Edge of Destruction]]'') Whilst sick with [[whooping cough]] at the age of ten, she read a [[Ladybird]] book about [[James Cook|Captain Cook]], sparking an interest in history. At age twelve, she was in Form 2A at [[Cricklewood Grammar School]]. In an exam, she wrote about life in [[Roman Empire|Roman]] cities. Her answer did not impress her teacher, [[Dolphin (Byzantium!)|Mr Dolphin]], whose methods of teaching history Barbara considered very dull. At age thirteen, she visited the [[Tower of London]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'')

She later attended [[Hampstead High School]] for girls. In [[1952]], she was in Class 5G and answered a question about the [[Gunpowder Plot]] in her second History O-levels exam paper. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Plotters (novel)|The Plotters]]'') In her teens, Barbara dated a boy who carried a [[knife|flick knife]]. Her mother called this her "rebellious phase". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963 (audio story)|1963]]'')

During her first year at [[university]], Barbara still lived in Cricklewood. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') Her specialities included the [[Aztec]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') who, according to one source, she wrote her dissertation on. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing at the End of the Lane (short story)|Nothing at the End of the Lane]]'') According to another, she wrote it on [[Japan]]'s period of exclusion and isolation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Barbarians and the Samurai (audio story)|The Barbarians and the Samurai]]'') During her teacher training course, her class took a one-day course in [[first aid]] from a retired army [[sergeant]] in the university gymnasium. The course involved giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a life-sized doll, an act which greatly embarrassed Barbara. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nine-Day Queen (short story)|The Nine-Day Queen]]'') In [[1954]], she was a student teacher in [[Cricklewood]], living in a rented room. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Witch Hunters (novel)|The Witch Hunters]]'')

She met with her mother every [[Sunday]] to discuss their week over [[tea]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Small Semblance of Home (audio story)|A Small Semblance of Home]]'') and met with an aunt named [[Cecilia]] every year in London on her aunt's birthday, [[23 November]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963 (audio story)|1963]]'')

In [[1962]], Barbara visited [[Toledo]], [[Spain]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Flames of Cadiz (audio story)|The Flames of Cadiz]]'') and, prior to [[1963]], she went on holiday to [[Somerset]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]]'')

She was a supporter of the [[Conservative Party]] whereas Ian supported the [[Liberal Party]]. She regarded his politics as "wrong but romantic." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing at the End of the Lane (short story)|Nothing at the End of the Lane]]'')

Barbara eventually moved into her own [[Barbara Wright's flat|flat]] in [[London]], ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'', ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') although according to some accounts she instead lived with her mother in [[Joan Wright's house|a house]] in [[Shoreditch]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Long Night (short story)|A Long Night]]'', ''[[The Time Travellers (novel)|The Time Travellers]]'') Whatever the case, she started working as a history teacher at [[Coal Hill School]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Unearthly Woman (audio story)|An Unearthly Woman]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') with her father taking her to [[Vincenzo's]] to celebrate getting the job. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Venusian Lullaby (novel)|Venusian Lullaby]]'')

Barbara would always start teaching a new class by drawing a line of chalk on the board, and marking out an 'x' for [[1066]] at one end and another 'x' for "today" at the other. To help the class to get a sense of history, she'd then get them to fill in the rest of the timeline with important dates, such as the signing of the [[Magna Carta]], the invasion of the [[Spanish Armada]] and the [[Battle of Waterloo]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Travellers (novel)|The Time Travellers]]'')

Barbara met [[Ian Chesterton]] during his first year teaching at Coal Hill. That year was also the first time the two of them met outside of the school, with one such occasion being when he helped her with a school history trip to the [[Tower of London]] at the end of the summer term in June. The school children found a plethora of ways to frustrate the two teachers, including getting lost, dripping [[ice lolly|ice lollies]] and screaming. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nine-Day Queen (short story)|The Nine-Day Queen]]'') On another occasion, Barbara took a group of 14-year-old students on a tour of [[Westminster Abbey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set in Stone (short story)|Set in Stone]]'')

On [[30 March]] 1963, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright saw the movie ''[[Saturday Night and Sunday Morning]]'' at the [[Rialto]]. Susan and her friend [[Gillian Roberts]] had snuck in to see the [[X-certificate]] film, and had to hide themselves from the two teachers to avoid having their ages given away. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'')

On one occasion, Barbara hosted a party which was attended by Ian, a fortune teller named [[Rosemary (The Splintered Gate)|Rosemary]], [[Robert (The Splintered Gate)|Robert]], and the [[Coal Hill School|Coal Hill]] [[headmaster]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Splintered Gate (short story)|The Splintered Gate]]'')

Ian introduced Barbara to [[River Song]], who had been hired at Coal Hill as a history teacher. The two got along well, with Barbara confiding in River that she would love to travel, but couldn't do it with their current salary. Barbara told Ian and River about her worries about a student, [[Sheila Page]], who seemed to be behaving strangely. Deciding to act upon it, Barbara went to see her foster parent, but the man was very rude and refused to help. She then enlisted the help of both Ian and River to come back and insist, but when they came to the house, they found the owner dead and Sheila and her adoptive brother, [[Lloyd Walker]], missing. Ian and Barbara came to fetch the police while River surveyed the area. When they returned, River announced she had found Lloyd. The four of them headed to the pub, where River left Ian and Barbara to take care of Lloyd as she went out looking for Sheila, turning down Ian's request to come with her. The two teachers eventually came out nonetheless, but River assured her it was all over. Before leaving Coal Hill, River said a fond goodbye to both. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Unearthly Woman (audio story)|An Unearthly Woman]]'')

Barbara met with [[Joan Wright|her mother]] every Sunday afternoon for [[tea]] and to discuss the events of the week. On the last Sunday before Barbara was abducted by the Doctor, she told her mother about Susan Foreman. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Small Semblance of Home (audio story)|A Small Semblance of Home]]'') Impressed with Susan's schoolwork, Barbara asked her if she would mind working with her at her house. When Susan refused becuase her grandfather didn't like strangers, Barbara asked the school secetary for her address and walked there after school. She was surprised to find a junkyard instead of a house. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')

In [[1963]], Barbara taught [[Susan|Susan Foreman]] history at [[Coal Hill School]] ([[TV]]: "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]") in [[Shoreditch]], [[London]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') in classroom [[Class C4]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing at the End of the Lane (short story)|Nothing at the End of the Lane]]'') She had a particular interest in the [[Aztec]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') The odd gaps in Susan's knowledge and her knowledge of things she could not know intrigued Barbara. Informing her colleague Ian Chesterton of the strange girl, together they followed Susan to [[76 Totter's Lane]], where they heard her voice from inside a [[police box]]. They forced their way inside, discovering the massive [[console room]] of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. Susan's grandfather, the [[First Doctor]], kidnapped Ian and Barbara in the TARDIS, which [[Time travel|travelled back in time]].

[[File:TARDIS doors open to the outside CaveofSkulls.jpg|thumb|left|Barbara and Susan look out across the plains of Stone Age Earth ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')]]

The TARDIS landed in [[Earth]]'s [[Stone Age]]. The Doctor was taken by [[Kal]], who believed the Doctor had produced [[fire]] from his fingers: the Doctor had been lighting his pipe using matches. The others tried to rescue the Doctor, but were taken to the [[Cave of Skulls]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') During their imprisonment, Barbara told the Doctor the story ''[[Godfather Death]]'' by the [[Brothers Grimm]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'') The [[Old Mother]] released the Doctor and his [[companion]]s because she did not want them to bring fire back to her tribe, and they escaped into [[Forest of Fear|a nearby forest]]. Ian and Barbara aided [[Za]]'s injuries from an animal when he tried to chase after them, but were returned to the cave. Ian produced fire for the tribe and devised a way of scaring the cavemen by setting the skulls on fire. The group escaped to the TARDIS, which took off again and landed on the ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') dead planet of [[Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child (novelisation)|Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child]]'')

According to a [[The Doctor's reality (Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks)|dissenting account]], Barbara had been personally tutoring Susan and only met Ian after he had a [[car crash]] on [[Barnes Common]]. This account claimed the TARDIS travelled directly to [[Skaro]] after they encountered the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'') During the [[Last Great Time War]], a "version" of the Doctor met [[the Barber-Surgeon]] and outlined this version of events as how they met Barbara and Ian. However, the [[War Doctor]] declared the version of events in Totter's Lane as the truth and remembered those as how they met. He outright said the events in Barnes Common "never happened" after the Barber-Surgeon recounted them. The Barber-Surgeon only responded by telling him "everything's happened somewhere". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Horror (audio story)|The Horror]]'')

When the TARDIS landed on Skaro, the Doctor lied about the [[fluid link]] needing more [[mercury (element)|mercury]], when there was nothing wrong, so he could explore [[Dalek City|a nearby city]]. The [[Dalek]]s imprisoned the Doctor and his companions inside the city, confiscating the fluid link they brought along. Having escaped, they assisted the [[Thal]]s in their attack on the Dalek city. The Daleks' power supply was damaged in the attack. The Daleks died and their plans to flood the [[atmosphere]] with [[radiation]] failed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'')

With the fluid link retrieved, the Doctor left Skaro for Earth, using the [[fast return switch]]. The spring in the switch was faulty, causing it to stick. The TARDIS was sent to the beginning of a solar system and everyone was knocked out in the trip. The TARDIS tried warning the crew about the [[atom]]s forming around them when they came to, but the Doctor assumed that this was Ian and Barbara's sabotage of the ship. Once Barbara figured out what was going on, the Doctor fixed the spring, ending the fault. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'')

Still heavily damaged and malfunctioning, the TARDIS found its way to Earth, but did not make it to Ian and Barbara's time, instead landing in the [[Plain of Pamir]] in [[1289]]. There, the Doctor and his companions met [[Marco Polo]]. Polo took the TARDIS along with its [[TARDIS key|keys]] on his caravan across [[China|Cathay]], to hand it to [[Kublai|Kublai Khan]] as part of a bargain for his return to [[Venice]]. Along the way, the [[Mongol]] warlord, [[Tegana]], also part of Polo's caravan, tried to take the TARDIS for [[Nogai]] as part of his plan to [[assassination|assassinate]] the Khan. In the chaos of Tegana and Polo's [[duel]] in [[Peking]], the Doctor and his companions escaped in his repaired TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'')

On the spaceship Vanguard she helped to explore the surroundings. She was taken by [[Benya]] to be examined by [[Olivan]] thinking they were Shifts. She helped to rescue the Doctor and Ian from the chains [[Arran]] had put them in but she was captured. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Age of Endurance (audio story)|The Age of Endurance]]'')

The Doctor and his companions returned to Arbitan's island, where Arbitan had been murdered. Ian handed the Voord the fake key, which destroyed the Conscience, along with the Voord. They were able to leave in the TARDIS once more. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]'')

[[File:Barbara Yetaxa.jpg|thumb|Barbara posing as the [[Aztec]] [[god]], [[Yetaxa]]. ([[TV]]: "[[The Day of Darkness]]")]]The Doctor and his companions arrived in an [[Aztec]] temple in [[Mexico]]. They went through a one-way passage that prevented access to the TARDIS. Barbara posed as the Aztec [[god]], [[Yetaxa]], with the others as her servants, to find a way back. Barbara tried and failed to change the Aztecs' history of [[human sacrifice]] for the better, which the Doctor strongly advised her against.

Susan was to be punished for denying marriage to the [[Perfect Victim]] and Ian to be executed when he was framed by the [[High Priest of Sacrifice]], [[Tlotoxl]], for attacking the [[High Priest of Knowledge]], [[Autloc]]. Autloc's faith in Yetaxa was shattered, and he left for the wilderness. The Doctor, Ian and the Doctor's accidental [[fiancée]], [[Cameca]], distracted Ian and Susan's [[Aztec captain|guard]] to escape. Ian prevented Tlotoxl's murder of Barbara and fought off the warrior [[Ixta]]. They worked on a wheel and pulley system to open the doorway back to the TARDIS, taking the wheel with them to avoid contaminating history (the Aztecs had never used wheels). As they departed, the sacrifice of the Perfect Victim continued as planned. Barbara was depressed at having failed to save the Aztec civilisation, but the Doctor assured her that she had at least helped Autloc find a better way of life. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'')

The TARDIS' lock was taken by the Sensorites, leaving the Doctor and his companions trapped on the spaceship. After the Doctor and his companions resisted the Sensorites, the Doctor, Ian and Susan agreed to go down to the Sense Sphere to treat the "disease" and cure John. Barbara had to stay behind as assurance for the Sensorites, but arrived on the Sense Sphere after the Doctor had discovered a cure for the poison. The Doctor and Ian, later followed by Barbara, went to the aqueducts where ''[[Atropa belladonna]]'' had been growing. They found the human expedition and pretended to be a welcoming party for them and that the "war" against the Sensorites was won. The expedition were taken into custody on [[Maitland's ship]]. Maitland's ship was free to leave and the TARDIS crew had regained their lock. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'')

Passionate about history, Barbara could see both sides to a story. When the travellers arrived in revolutionary France, she befriended [[Léon Colbert]]. When he died, she was distraught and defended his treachery. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]]'')

When the TARDIS landed on the planet [[Destination]], Barbara helped the Doctor investigate the conflict between the colonists and the [[Dalmari]] before she and Ian were [[hypnosis|hypnotised]] by {{Dreyfus}}, a once friend of the Doctor's who had taken control of the planet, as hostages while he seised the TARDIS. The two regained their faculties while the ship sailed through the time vortex, the Master struggling to properly work the modified controls, before they overpowered him and used the [[fast return switch]] to return to the Doctor and Susan, albeit two years after they'd left. After the Doctor had stranded the Master, the group left the planet and wound up in [[New York City]] in [[1888]] where they were caught in a gang war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')

The struggle ended with Ian being shot and Susan kidnapped. As the Doctor went to confront the police about his granddaughter's abduction, Barbara accompanied Ian to the hospital, befriending [[Rosalita (The Great White Hurricane)|Rosalita]]. When Ian awoke the next morning, Barbara realised that they were at risk of being caught in the [[Great White Hurricane]]. Though insisting that they get back to the TARDIS, Barbara helped Ian return Rosalita home only for her son Joseph to have been taken away by her husband [[Henry (The Great White Hurricane)|Henry]]. Following him to the train station, they found the tracks frozen over, Ian forcing an opportunist to use his ladder to rescue the people for free. After Rosalita had been reunited with her family, Ian and Barbara returned to the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great White Hurricane (audio story)|The Great White Hurricane]]'')

The Doctor attempted to use a temporal slingshot to return to 1963 only to wind up on the planet [[Ashtallah]], home of the [[Ashtallan]]s, an immortal race with prodigious healing abilities. Barbara found herself impaled by a spear as part of an Ashtallan game only for their cells to quickly heal her. The group then conversed with the Ashtallans, Ian and Barbara telling [[Brenna (The Invention of Death)|Brenna]] about [[love]] before a mysterious plague began killing the aliens. In short order, it was found, much to Barbara's horror, that [[Sharlan]] was using a sample of Barbara's blood to kill their people, having nearly killed Ian to cover their tracks. After Ian had been healed by Ashthallan cells and Sharlan had fallen victim to their own plague, the group left the planet. The Doctor mused on what effects Ashtallan biology might have on Ian and Barbara, wondering if they would ever age. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Invention of Death (audio story)|The Invention of Death]]'')

When the TARDIS landed in [[19th century]] [[Japan]] before it was opened to [[Westerner]]s, the Doctor and Barbara were taken prisoner at the orders of the daimyo [[Takagi Mamoru]], while Ian and Susan managed to escape, as Mamoru suspected the two of being spies from [[England]], sent to spy on his preparation for a revolt against the Emperor, who was about to open the country to strangers. The Doctor and Barbara tried to escape, but ended up being involved, together with Ian and Susan, in a battle between Mamoru's samurais and the Emperor's forces. After a hole had been blown in Mamoru's stronghold, the group retreated back to the TARDIS and fled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Barbarians and the Samurai (audio story)|The Barbarians and the Samurai]]'')

Soon afterwards, the TARDIS landed in [[Tyre]], where they, Ian in particular, won the favour of [[Princess]] [[Elissa]], to Barbara's visible [[jealousy]], and the ire of [[King]] [[Pygmalion]]. As Pygmalion was to bless his new ship, Ian was nearly killed before he was rescued by Elissa and brought aboard the ship as they sailed away from Tyre, though leaving the Doctor behind. As Ian fought off Elissa's flirtations, Barbara tried to reach out to the despondent Susan before they arrived at the site of the future [[Carthage]]. Along with Susan, Barbara was nearly conscripted into a temple before the Doctor caught up with them and painted him and his friends as emissaries of the gods. After defeating Pygmalion's fleet, the TARDIS crew took off again, Ian finding that he'd inspired [[Aeneas]], before the ship was drawn to [[Tick-Tock World|a temporally unstable planet]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Phoenicians (audio story)|The Phoenicians]]'')

As the ship hurled out of control, Susan suggested drawing power from the [[TARDIS force field]], being supported by an echo from a fading future version of herself, allowing the engines to break free. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tick-Tock World (audio story)|Tick-Tock World]]'')

A later attempt to use the [[fast return switch]] to get Ian and Barbara home, resulted in the group's return to Skaro, fifty [[cycle]]s after their last visit. Brought to the [[Thal City]], the group was shown some of their new inventions before it was found that Susan and [[Jyden]] had snuck off to the Dalek City. At the Doctor's request, Barbara stayed behind, in case Susan returned on her own, talking to [[Damadus]] about the Thals' evolution before Susan and Jyden returned with two active, yet unarmed, Dalek drones who claimed to want peace. When the Daleks were allowed to speak to the people however, they abandoned their ruse as the [[Dalek Supreme (Return to Skaro)|Dalek Supreme]] arrived with an army, striking the Thals with lightning from the ionising towers. Rallying the Thals once more, the group managed to free the Doctor who turned the towers against the Daleks, ending their invasion before the group left Skaro once again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return to Skaro (audio story)|Return to Skaro]]'')

The TARDIS then landed in [[Ekaterinburg]], shortly before the [[Russian Civil War|Russian Civil War.]] Susan and Barbara explored together for a while before finding that the ship had vanished. After speaking to Thomas Preston, the British Consul, Susan and Barbara posed as [[nun]]s to infiltrate the house of [[Nicholas II]] and his family, Susan befriending [[Anastasia Romanov]]. As Barbara questioned how useful she and Susan were, Ian and the Doctor returned only for Nicholas II to reveal that he had come to terms with death and encouraged them to flee. Running back to the TARDIS, Barbara spoke with Susan again, humouring her pupil's belief that Anastasia might have escaped execution. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Romanovs (audio story)|Last of the Romanovs]]'')

Following the ship suddenly losing power, the Doctor and Susan managed to force it to self-repair which necessitated an emergency landing. The travellers found themselves on a dystopian future Earth where they were taken prisoner and forced to submit to a genetic scan to prove they were human. Though the Doctor had sabotaged the machine to read Susan as human, intending for Ian and Barbara to look after her, humanity's genes had evolved so much over the aeons that Ian and Barbara did not read as human. As a result, they were sent to work in the mines with the gestalt being [[Brooskin]]. When Ian tried to escape, he wound up exposing himself to the vacuum of space with Brooskin informing the humans that they were not on Earth but on [[Urth]], a space habitat smaller than [[London]]. Following Susan currying the favour of the settlement's rulers, she managed to free her friends before representatives from the remainder of the human race arrived. Convinced that the problems would sort themselves out very shortly, the travellers made for the TARDIS and left. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[For the Glory of Urth (audio story)|For the Glory of Urth]]'')

When the Doctor was convinced that the ship had been fully repaired, the group found themselves in London [[1601]]. When they attempted to visit the [[Globe Theatre]], they instead found a volatile political climate before they met [[Judith Shakespeare]] who introduced them to [[William Shakespeare]] and hosted them for dinner. After Susan and Judith had bonded over being treated like children and escaped the house, Barbara was asked to stay behind in case Susan returned. Growing bored of this, Barbara eventually caught up with the group at the Globe when Susan had been drawn into [[Lady]] [[Penelope Rich]]'s plot to dethrone [[Elizabeth I]]. Though Barbara tried to deter Susan, the stunt resulted in Shakespeare's arrest. As the travellers scrambled to correct history, Queen Elizabeth returned and brought the conflict to a swift end. When the time came to leave, Susan, Barbara and Ian expressed a desire to stay and see a play before an outside source activated the TARDIS and sent it flying away from England. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hollow Crown (audio story)|The Hollow Crown]]'')

At some point during her travels with the Doctor, Susan and Ian, she visited [[Bob Dovie]] at [[59A Barnsfield Crescent]] in [[Totton]], [[Hampshire]] on [[23 November]] [[1963]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')

She liked watching plays when they were in [[Alexandria]]. When she discovered that Ian was talking to [[Hypathia]] she got angry. When the [[Library of Alexandria]] was burning down she tried to save the Books. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Library of Alexandria (audio story)|The Library of Alexandria]]'')

She was concerned for Ian when he was imprisoned by the [[Spanish Inquisition]]. She later helped him escape from being burnt alive. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Flames of Cadiz (audio story)|The Flames of Cadiz]]'')

They later landed in a flotilla of ships on the planet [[Hydra (planet)|Hydra]] where they were captured by [[Amyra Kaan]] and [[Pan Vexel]] for being stowaways. When Ian volunteered to help a rescue mission after a shipwreck, Barbara became concerned on what he would find in the wreckage of one of the ships. The Doctor ordered her to evacuate the sinking ship with Susan and the injured [[Jonas Kaan]] but she went back to get the Doctor. She was assumed to have died but was in fact imprisoned by [[Tarlak]] and maltreated for months. She also assumed the Doctor to have died. When Susan was to be converted into a Voord, Barbara was used as a bargaining chip to get Susan to comply with Tarlak's orders. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Domain of the Voord (audio story)|Domain of the Voord]]'')

On [[22nd century]] Earth, the travellers found the Daleks had invaded and occupied the planet. Barbara helped a small resistance group in their plotting and, with [[Jenny Chaplin|Jenny]], took [[Dortmun]] through [[London]]. With the Daleks defeated, Susan left their company to marry freedom fighter [[David Campbell]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')

When they arrived on the [[planet]] [[Dido]], Barbara was pushed off a cliff by [[Bennett (The Rescue)|Bennett]], one of two surviving passengers of the crash landed Earth ship the ''[[UK-201]]'' as part of Bennett's plan to get away with his murder of the crew and many of the Dido people. The other surviving passenger, [[Vicki Pallister|Vicki]], brought Barbara to the ''UK-201'' after she survived her fall, but was upset when Barbara killed Vicki's pet [[sand beast]], [[Sandy]], thinking it to be dangerous. After Barbara offered an apology, the two got on well and, following Bennett's death and the revelation he murdered her father, Vicki joined the TARDIS to travel in time and space. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'')

The travellers stayed in a villa in [[Assisium]] near [[Rome]] for several weeks in the year [[64]]. Ian and Barbara were taken as [[slave]]s by the slave traders [[Sevcheria]] and [[Didius]], with Barbara sold into [[Nero]]'s palace to serve Nero's wife, the Empress [[Poppaea]]. While at the palace, Barbara received a bracelet from Nero as a present. After believing Barbara had ambitions to become Empress, Poppaea tried poisoning Barbara, but she was unwittingly saved by Vicki, who didn't know Barbara was in the palace. With the help of Ian, [[Tavius]] and [[Delos]], Barbara escaped, and Ian and Barbara returned to the villa before the Doctor and Vicki returned from their own adventures in Rome. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Romans (TV story)|The Romans]]'')

While on [[Vortis]], Barbara survived working for the [[Zarbi]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'')

The Doctor, Ian, Barbara, Vicki and [[Jospa]] had to escape from laser fire after rescuing some slaves. She found her former pursuers technology disgusting. She observed that the birds who were eating the fruits looked like they were getting intoxicated. When one of the birds attacked Vicki she realised this was because Vicki smelled like fruit. She helped Vicki back to the TARDIS, but when Jospa's device was connected to the console she experienced some pain. She then forgot who Jospa was. She devised a plan to attack the Jospa controlled [[Arunde]] using the fruit and the birds who had already attacked her earlier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fifth Traveller (audio story)|The Fifth Traveller]]'')

She was captured by a [[Saracen]] band led by [[El Akir]], she had the strength of mind to survive this as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crusade (TV story)|The Crusade]]'')

[[File:1st Doctor and companions.jpg|thumb|left|Barbara with the Doctor and the others in 1868 ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Selection (comic story)|Unnatural Selection]]'')]]

The Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki then travelled to [[1868]], where they attended a [[lecture]] by [[Thomas Huxley]]. The four of them travelled into the [[London Underground]] to investigate a group of missing students and discovered that the Zarbi had populated themselves in the there. Travelling further into the sewers, they found the [[Animus]], who had reformed itself and had moved to [[Earth]] to take revenge on the human race. Ian was able to kill it by driving a [[train]] into it. The Doctor and his companions prepared to leave, but the Doctor discovered that his companions were missing, having been pulled out of time by [[Adam Mitchell]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Selection (comic story)|Unnatural Selection]]'')

Along with the Doctor's other companions, she was placed in suspended animation, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Choice (comic story)|The Choice]]'') but was freed soon afterwards to fight {{Ainley}}'s [[Auton]] army, being returned to her proper time and place when Adam stood down. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]'')

When Vicki told Barbara that the siesta machines that were being used on [[Hisk]] were like her teaching machines, Barbara got annoyed at the fact that her job was replaced by a machine. When she realised a local was severely depressed she helped to try and overcome the feeling by helping to bake some cakes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sleeping City (audio story)|The Sleeping City]]'')

On one place they landed on, she became a food preparation worker but took a leave day to research the planet they were on. She was later arrested for unauthorised research. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Unwinding World (audio story)|The Unwinding World]]'')

When Barbara and her friends landed near [[Sonning Palace]], the Doctor asked her to use her historical expertise to guess where they were. She was slightly disappointed at being in the reign of [[Henry IV]]. She spent her time making some clothing for the Doctor. She later went on a pilgrimage with the Doctor to [[Canterbury]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]'')

[[File:Lon-don nine-teen sixty-five.jpg|thumb|right|Barbara and Ian, in their own time once more ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')]]

Following the [[Mechonoid Incident]], she was the first to realise that she and Ian might be able to return home in [[Dalek time machine (The Chase)|the Dalek time machine]]. Determined to get home, she was willing to risk her life in the Dalek ship. On returning home, Barbara and Ian were thrilled to have safely arrived. Once they had left the Dalek ship, and it had self-destructed, the two friends realised that they had some explaining to do, as they had arrived home in [[1965]] — two years after they had left. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') Barbara and Ian claimed to have been missionaries in Africa to account for the time gap, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') an explanation that was not readily accepted. As Barbara grew more fed up with having to offer excuses, she openly told the headmaster the truth about her and Ian's travels with the Doctor, mentioning several alien species by name. The outburst caused her to be put on leave for a time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[After the Daleks (audio story)|After the Daleks]]'')

By one account, a sliver of [[Animus]] remained in Barbara's mind, giving her psychic powers during her first year back on Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[London, 1965 (audio story)|London, 1965]]'')

[[File:Ian_&_Barbara_wedding.jpg|thumb|Ian and Barbara are wed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'')]]

As the Tribe of Gum instructed the primitive humans to worship the Prometheans, the Doctor returned, having planted the image of the TARDIS throughout human history, and using that image to alter the neural platform, reversing the effect, destroying the platform, and "locking" the minds of the human race from being altered again. Incensed, the Tribe of Gum, at the Prometheans' urging, attacked the Doctor. Barbara and Ian landed their ship on a fragment of the neural platform, and convinced the Tribe to stop by telling them of love and sacrifice, and how the Doctor protected the people of Earth for years. When the Tribe of Gum ceased their assault, the Prometheans attacked Barbara and Ian. The Tribe of Gum then turned on the Prometheans. Both sides were destroyed in the ensuing struggle. Barbara and Ian returned to their own time, and married, with the Doctor attending their wedding. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'')

In [[1966]], Barbara and Ian embarked on a cruise aboard the ''[[SS Jolly Wanderer]]'' at the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. They became embroiled in a [[Cold War]] plot involving an alien supercomputer and time travelling [[assassin]] [[Doom]] who accidentally unleashed a swarm of [[nanoform]]s that took over the ship. Barbara went with Doom to the engine room to scuttle the ship. Ian found his way onto a lifeboat with Barbara and Doom escaping the sinking ship and joining him. Doom then disappeared using her [[Doom's vortex manipulator|vortex manipulator]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Steel Cascade (audio story)|The Steel Cascade]]'')

At some point, Barbara was taken to the [[Black Archive]] by [[UNIT]] to have her record as a [[companion]] of the Doctor taken. Her memories of the visit were subsequently erased and she was sent on her way. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')

The [[Fifth Doctor]] was aware Barbara became a housewife, and made excellent upside-down cake. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'')

She began a career as a university [[lecturer]], specialising in Aztec history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') Her and Ian had a child, [[Johnny Chess|John Alydon Ganatus Chesterton]], who grew up to be a famous musician under the name Johnny Chess. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'', ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]]'s companion [[Ace]] was a fan of Johnny Chess. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Maker of Demons (audio story)|Maker of Dreams]]'')

Barbara kept a diary which she planned to leave for Susan when the Doctor's granddaughter came to live on 22nd century Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')

According to a rumour [[Sarah Jane Smith]] shared with [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]], Barbara and Ian had become professors at the [[University of Cambridge]] by at least the [[2010s]] and had not aged since the [[1960s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')

In [[November]] [[1973]], Barbara took her son John to the [[Roman]] exhibit in the [[British Museum]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'')

In [[1985]], Barbara wrote a GCSE textbook called ''[[Journeys Through History: A Sourcebook for GCSE]]'' with [[Ian Martin]] which included an extract from a biography of Lady [[Jane Grey]] by [[Joan Stevenson]]. Barbara, the Doctor and Ian had met Lady Jane in the months before she was deposed by [[Mary I|Queen Mary I]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nine-Day Queen (short story)|The Nine-Day Queen]]'')

When Barbara was out doing groceries, Ian was called away by the [[Time Lord]]s to aid Susan on a mission to the [[Sense Sphere]]. Though he wished to wait for Barbara, the Time Lords refused to do so, taking him away and returning him just as Barbara returned home. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sphere of Influence (audio story)|Sphere of Influence]]'')

On the [[23 November|23rd of November]] [[2013]], Ian and Barbara were on their fourth honeymoon. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')

Ian and Barbara attended [[Sarah Jane Smith]]'s memorial on a "bright, cold [[Spring]] day", where they discussed Sarah Jane with other guests, and helped fight the [[Jackals of the Backwards Clock]] to foil [[the Trickster]]'s revenge plot. ([[WC]]: ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]'')

When the TARDIS was drawn to and destroyed [[Tick-Tock World|on a world where time was in a constant state of flux]], Barbara, along with Ian and the Doctor, was devoured by the [[Xesto]], creatures that consumed time and all other possible futures, Barbara throwing herself to them out of despair after Ian was killed. When a future Susan managed to make contact with her past self, the resulting explosion caused by their violation of the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] allowed the future Susan to reach back in time and help the Doctor avert the original crash. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tick-Tock World (audio story)|Tick-Tock World]]'')

In an aborted timeline created by {{Pratt}}, Ian, Barbara, Susan, and the First Doctor were dragged to the [[23 November|same]] [[1963|date]] and [[59A Barnsfield Crescent|location]] as the Doctor’s other selves and companions. Later, Barbara’s adventures and first meeting with the Doctor were erased. This timeline was later negated primarily by the [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]], [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]], [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]], and First Doctors. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')

The [[Barbara Wright Building|main building]] at [[Coal Hill Academy]] was named after Barbara. It was completed in Spring [[2016]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'')

An [[oak]] tree was planted at the Coal Hill quad in memory of Ian and Barbara. Surviving two [[Dalek]] invasions, it remained to at least the end of the [[22nd century]] when it was found by Susan, who lived in the block of flats which Coal Hill had been converted to over a hundred years prior. Realising that the commemorative plaque had since been replaced more than once, Susan found it did not say when they ultimately [[died]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[All Hands on Deck (audio story)|All Hands on Deck]]'')

The [[Seventh Doctor]] chanted Barbara's name, amongst those of other companions, when under attack by the [[Haemovore]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') He also slightly remembered her in Rome after he turned himself human. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')

[[File:BarbaraHoldsSusanTKOM2.jpg|thumb|Barbara comforts [[Susan]] when she is distraught. ([[TV]]: "[[The Screaming Jungle]]")]]

Barbara was keen to see the good in all things and believed that there was sometimes more to situations than met the eye. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Romans (TV story)|The Romans]]'')She was frequently protected by Ian, and at times felt he treated her like a [[Dresden China|China doll]], keeping her from independence. ([[TV]]: "[[The Screaming Jungle]]") Nonetheless, the pair felt [[love]] for one another, early on. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Invention of Death (audio story)|The Invention of Death]]'') She protected Susan in turn, giving care and attention, and holding her close, before focusing on the task ahead. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]'')

Susan once described Barbara as "brave and kind". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Domain of the Voord (audio story)|Domain of the Voord]]'') She was capable of great endurance and feats of bravery. She killed [[Sandy]] with a [[flare gun]] in shock, after which she was keen to make it up with Vicki. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'') While a prisoner, Barbara looked after her fellow captives at risk to herself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Romans (TV story)|The Romans]]'')

Barbara had a strong conviction that she knew what was best, not only for herself but for everyone else. It suited her temperament to be in charge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child (novelisation)|Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child]]'')

Barbara would take her aggression out on the [[Dalek]]s. Despite her initial fear, she overcame it and fought them to save her group and the [[Thal]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') In her second encounter with them, when one of the Doctor's experiments to get back to 1963 resulted in them returning to Skaro, Barbara was quick to point out to the Thals the danger of the Daleks, and not to trust them despite being surprised they had survived. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return to Skaro (audio story)|Return to Skaro]]'') Barbara drove a truck through a roadblock of Daleks, crushing one of them, and chose to help the resistance defy their commanders. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') The next time she met the Daleks, Barbara was eager to violently attack them as soon as the Doctor gained the weaponry they needed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')

Barbara was extremely fond of [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]'') She was a supporter of the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] and participated in the [[Aldermaston]] marches. It was on the marches that she and Ian first became friends. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]'')

Barbara once described travelling in the TARDIS as "the most adventurous, terrifying, exhilarating thing" that she had ever done. She admitted to Ian that she would find it hard to say goodbye to it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mother Road (short story)|The Mother Road]]'')

Barbara was tall, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sensorites (novelisation)|The Sensorites]]'') dark-haired and slim and extremely beautiful ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child (novelisation)|Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child]]'') Ian believed that her face was "deceptive", being attractive but with strong character. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'') She was always neatly dressed, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child (novelisation)|Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child]]'') usually in mature, conservative clothes, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sensorites (novelisation)|The Sensorites]]'') and often wore a [[beige]] turtle-neck [[jumper]] and [[black]] [[trousers]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]'', ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'', ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'', ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'', etc.) Someone had once unkindly said that she looked like a "typical [[teacher|schoolmistress]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child (novelisation)|Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child]]'')