Dr Clare Horrocks
Humanities and Social Science

Email address: C.L.Horrocks@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 5035
Academic appointments
Senior Lecturer, Humanities and Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, 2000 - present
Highlighted publications
Horrocks CL. 2016. Digital Thackeray: Preserving the Legacy Salmon R. Thackeray in time: Modernity, History and Memory Ashgate. Hants
Horrocks CL, Maidment B, Stevenson V. Punch Re-Rooted: Comedy and the Periodical Press 1820 - 1850
Book
Horrocks CL. 2018. Reassessing the Dynamics of Punch: Reading Beyond the Main Cuts Bloomsbury History. UK
Chapters
Horrocks CL. 2016. Digital Thackeray: Preserving the Legacy Salmon R. Thackeray in time: Modernity, History and Memory Ashgate. Hants
Horrocks CL. 2013. Detecting Disease in London's Underworld: Household Words and the Campaign for Sanitary Reform Drew J, Winyard B, Mackenzie H. Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press University of Buckingham Press. UK
Journal article
Horrocks CL. 2013. Nineteenth Century Journalism Online: The Market versus Academia Media History, Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2013. 'Is there anybody there?' Examining Victorian Responses to Spiritualism and the Occult Journal of Victorian Culture,
Horrocks CL. 2012. Advances in Digitization: The Dickens Journals Online Project 2012 Victorian Periodicals Review, 45 :358-362 Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2012. Studying Nineteenth-Century Media: Marking the Shift from 'Reader' to 'User' Journal of Victorian Culture, 17 :376-379 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2012. Re-examining Thackeray through a 'Family Lens' Journal of Victorian Culture, 17 :262-264 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2011. The Punch Brotherhood Victorian Periodicals Review, 44 :404-406 Publisher Url
Horrocks CL, Simons G. 2011. "From Paris to Punch: William Makepeace Thackeray and a New Era in Social Satire" Victorians: a journal of culture and literature (formerly Victorian Newsletter), :4-22 Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2010. Online Resources for the Study of Nineteenth Century Pamphlets Journal of Victorian Culture, 15 :399-401 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2010. Punch and Shakespeare Victorian Periodicals Review, 43 :342-343 Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2009. "Introduction to the Special Issue" "Father Thames's Revenge: visualising reform through the characterisation of a social problem" "Discussion: Online Resources for the Study of Victorian Periodicals" "Interview with Patrick Leary" Popular Narrative Media, 2 Publisher Url
Book review
Horrocks CL. 2013. Comedy and the 'Middlebrow' Consumer Market 1820 - 1850 Journal of Victorian Culture, Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2013. The Diary of Elizabeth Lee Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 162 Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2013. 'Is There Anybody There?' Examining Victorian Responses to Spiritualism and the Occult Journal of Victorian Culture, 18 :167-170 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2012. Country Houses of Lancashire Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 161 Publisher Url
Report
Horrocks CL. 2013. Building a Special Collections Resource: A Few Reflections Building a Special Collections Resource: A Few Reflections Author Url
Other
Horrocks CL. 2012. Punch and the Victorian Periodical Press Collection Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2008. "Mark Lemon" and "Francis Burnand" Brake L, Demoor M.
Internet publication
Horrocks CL. 2010. The Illustrated London News and Travel Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2010. The Illustrated London News and Health Publisher Url
Thesis/Dissertation
Horrocks CL. 2009. Proselytising Public Health Reform in Punch 1841 1858 Rogers H, Norquay G. Liverpool John Moores University Public Url
Exhibition
Horrocks CL, Maidment B, Stevenson V. Punch Re-Rooted: Comedy and the Periodical Press 1820 - 1850
Horrocks C, White N, Parsons E, Stephenson V. Life on the Ocean Wave Author Url
Conference presentation:
Success Through the Ages: Punch and the Modernist Challenge 1874 - 1906, BAVS Annual conference - Victorian Ages, Leeds Trinity, Oral presentation. 2015
Other invited event:
Research Seminar, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Invited to deliver a paper at the Research Centre for Public Health. 2015
North West Nineteenth Century Seminar Series, Manchester Metropolitan University, Invited to deliver a paper on the Punch Contributor Ledgers Project at the quarterly meeting of the North West Nineteenth Century Seminar Series. 2014
AHRC Consultancy Workshop - "Lost Visions", Cardiff University, Invited to test a beta site for a new collaborative AHRC funded project between the University of Cardiff and the British Library tagging over 1 million images from the BL's Flickr account. 2014
W. T. Stead Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolution, British Library, London, Invited to give a paper on a Plenary Panel entitled "The Future of the Newspaper Archive". 2012
News of the World Colloquium, Kings College London, Invited Roundtable Plenary panel member. 2010
External collaboration:
http://www.cultureliverpool.co.uk/event/life-on-the-ocean-wave-an-exhibition-of-cunard-collectibles/, Liverpool John Moores University, Culture Liverpool. 2015
Liverpool John Moores University, Special Collections and Archives, Gale Cengage. 2013
British Library, Rachel Foss (Head of Modern Manuscripts). 2011
Conference organisation:
Working with Nineteenth Century Periodicals - A Symposium, Co-organiser. 2013
40th Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals - Work and Leisure, Conference Organiser, http://www.rs4vp.org/2011conf.html. 2011
Victorian Print and Popular Culture Seminar Series, Convenor, http://ljmu.ac.uk/HSS/121063.htm. 2011
Selling Cultures, Strand Co-ordinator: Victorian Cultures of Selling, http://victorianist.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/selling-culture-cultural-identities-in-the-victorian-periodical-press-20-21-november-2010/. 2010
Research Grants Awarded:
Cengage Learning (industry funder), Punch and the Victorian Periodical Press, Grant value (£): 74005.00, Duration of research project: 9 months. 2012
External PGR examinations performed:
Queens University, Ontario Canada, PhD. 2012
Fellowships:
Early Career Researcher Fellowship, Liverpool John Moores University. 2010
Curran Fellowship for Archival Research, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, http://www.rs4vp.org/prizes.html. 2009
Industrial connections:
Cengage Learning, Advisory Consultant. 2008
Membership of professional bodies:
Fellow, Higher Education Academy. 2001
Member, British Association of Victorian Studies, http://www.bavsuk.org/. 1999
Member, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, http://www.rs4vp.org/. 1999