Dr Clare Horrocks
Humanities and Social Science
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: C.L.Horrocks@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 5035
I have worked at LJMU for over twenty years and am an established researcher in the field of Victorian Popular Culture. I am the MCC Employability Lead and Outreach Coordinator. I welcome applications for PhDs on any aspect of the Victorian Periodical Press, Punch and author attribution projects. My specialisms include working with Archives and enhancing the transition of Archival studies for the Digital Age; I am an Academic Advisor to Gale Cengage Learning and creator of the Punch Contributor Ledgers Project at LJMU, including an online Exhibition which identifies the women contributors to Punch for the first time. https://www.ljmuexhibitions.online/
Degrees
2009, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PhD
Academic appointments
Senior Lecturer in Cultural History, Humanities and Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, 2000 - present
Highlighted publications
Horrocks C. 2024. New Humour, New Dialogue: Ada Leverson's Contributions to Punch and The Yellow Book Gavin AE, Oulton CWDLL. British Women's Writing from Bronte to Bloomsbury Volume 3 1890s Palgrave Macmillan. Switzerland DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C, Moody N. 2020. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards's Comic Writing in Punch Gavin AE, Oulton CWDLL. British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury Volume 2 1860s and 1870s 2 :135-149 Palgrave Macmillan 978-3-030-38527-9 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2016. Digital Thackeray: Preserving the Legacy Salmon R. Thackeray in time: Modernity, History and Memory Ashgate. Hants
Internet publication
Horrocks C. 2025. Into the Archives: Pocket Books, Almanacks and the Punch Contributor Ledgers Publisher Url
Horrocks C. 2014. Studying Satire as a Form of Historical Communication: Teaching and Learning with Punch Publisher Url
Horrocks C. 2014. Case Study: Nineteenth Century Punch in the Seminar Room Publisher Url
Horrocks C. 2014. Case Study: Twentieth Century Punch in the Seminar Room Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2010. The Illustrated London News and Travel Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2010. The Illustrated London News and Health Publisher Url
Journal article
Horrocks C. 2024. Out of the Archives The Women of Punch Exhibition and Archive (Liverpool John Moores Special Collections & Archives) International Centre for Victorian Women Writers Newsletter, Publisher Url Public Url
Keates KE, Horrocks C. 2017. Dickens Quarterly Checklist Dickens Quarterly, 34 :76-79 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C. 2016. Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain Women's Writing, 23 :417-420 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C, Keates KE. 2015. The Dickens Quarterly Checklist Dickens Quarterly, 32 :265-271 DOI Publisher Url
Cayley S, Horrocks C. 2015. The Punch Historical Archive, 1841–1992 : A Sustainable Brand for the Digital Age Victorian Periodicals Review, 48 :238-243 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C, Keates KE. 2015. The Dickens Quarterly Checklist Dickens Quarterly, 32 :170-175 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C, Keates KE. 2015. The Dickens Quarterly Checklist Dickens Quarterly, 32 :89-93 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C. 2014. Social and Professional Networks in the Victorian Periodical Press Journal of Victorian Culture, 19 :247-251 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2013. Nineteenth Century Journalism Online: The Market versus Academia Media History, DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C. 2013. Review of Digitization Panels at the 2013 RSVP Conference Victorian Periodicals Review, 46 :562-565 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C. 2013. Periodical Girls Journal of Victorian Culture, 18 :305-307 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2013. 'Is there anybody there?' Examining Victorian Responses to Spiritualism and the Occult Journal of Victorian Culture,
Jones C, Cox P, Marren B, Walchester K, Horrocks C, Gritt A. 2013. Book Reviews Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 162 :235-251 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2012. Advances in Digitization: The Dickens Journals Online Project 2012 Victorian Periodicals Review, 45 :358-362 DOI 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
Williams L, Horrocks C, Gritt A, White NJ, Vernon K, Winstanley M, Caunce S, Wilson A, Pilkington SA, Stewart E, Hill J, Heywood C, Marren B. 2012. Book Reviews Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 161 :87-123 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
Chapters
Horrocks C. 2024. New Humour, New Dialogue: Ada Leverson's Contributions to Punch and The Yellow Book Gavin AE, Oulton CWDLL. British Women's Writing from Bronte to Bloomsbury Volume 3 1890s Palgrave Macmillan. Switzerland DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C, Moody N. 2020. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards's Comic Writing in Punch Gavin AE, Oulton CWDLL. British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury Volume 2 1860s and 1870s 2 :135-149 Palgrave Macmillan 978-3-030-38527-9 DOI Publisher Url
Horrocks C, Moody N. 2020. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards’s Comic Writing in Punch British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 :135-148 Springer International Publishing 9783030385279 DOI Publisher Url
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
Horrocks C. Kingsley, Charles :1-7 Wiley 9781118405383 DOI Publisher Url
Report
Horrocks C. 2023. An Introduction to the Punch Contributor Ledgers Project Publisher Url
Horrocks CL. 2013. Building a Special Collections Resource: A Few Reflections Building a Special Collections Resource: A Few Reflections Author Url
Editorial/letter to the editor
Horrocks C, Edwards Keates K. 2015. Digital Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals Horrocks C, Edwards Keates K. Victorian Periodicals Review, 48 :157-160 DOI Publisher Url
Book review
Horrocks CL. 2013. Comedy and the 'Middlebrow' Consumer Market 1820 - 1850 Journal of Victorian Culture, DOI 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
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.
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 C, White N, Parsons E, Stephenson V. Life on the Ocean Wave Author Url
Horrocks CL, Maidment B, Stevenson V. Punch Re-Rooted: Comedy and the Periodical Press 1820 - 1850
Horrocks C, Parsons E, Waters S. The Women of the Nineteenth Century Press
Horrocks C, Foulkes A, Parsons E. The Women of Punch
Highlighted activities
Research Grants Awarded:
Laboratoire Partenaire International - Caen University, Normandy, The Punch Pocket Book Archive, Prof Francoise Baillet, Caen, Grant value (£): £12, 815.78, Duration of research project: 2 years. 2024
Cengage Learning (industry funder), Punch and the Victorian Periodical Press, Grant value (£): 74005.00, Duration of research project: 9 months. 2012
Professional activities
Other Professional Activity:
Awarded a place, through competitive application, on a 12 week NCCPE (National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement) Training programme. 2025
External committees:
Digital Events Committee, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Committee Member. 2025
Forum for Historical Manuscripts and Academic Research, The National Archives, Shortlisted, Pending Interview Decision.
Conference organisation:
We Are Amused: Victorian Humour in the Digital Age (University of Caen, Normandie), Co-Investigator, https://eribia.unicaen.fr/evenement/we-are-amused-victorian-humour-in-the-digital-age/. 2024
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
External collaboration:
https://www.maritimehistory.org.uk/news/items/cpmh-talks-about-cunards-queen-anne, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, City of Liverpool Calendar of Events for the Launch of Cunard's Queen Anne. 2024
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 presentation:
The Power of Wit to Educate and Inform: Punch's Women Contributors, VPFA Study Day: Knowledge in the Victorian Periodical, Manchester Metropolitan University, Other. 2024
The Women of Punch and the Nineteenth Century Periodical Press,, LJMU Special Collections & Archives Launch Event, Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, Oral presentation. 2024
The Women of Punch. A Digital Exhibition, RSVP Digital Event Calendar, Online, Oral presentation. 2024
Success Through the Ages: Punch and the Modernist Challenge 1874 - 1906, BAVS Annual conference - Victorian Ages, Leeds Trinity, Oral presentation. 2015
Keynote Speaker - Punch and its Emerging "Sisterhood" of Contributors 1868 - 1880, ICVWW - Bronte to Bloomsbury, Canterbury Christchurch University, Oral presentation. 2015
Research Grants Awarded:
Laboratoire Partenaire International - Caen University, Normandy, The Punch Pocket Book Archive, Prof Francoise Baillet, Caen, Grant value (£): £12, 815.78, Duration of research project: 2 years. 2024
Cengage Learning (industry funder), Punch and the Victorian Periodical Press, Grant value (£): 74005.00, Duration of research project: 9 months. 2012
Editorial boards:
Victorian Periodicals Review, Submissions Editor, https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review?srsltid=AfmBOoo9XM_dBU8eoEGeA74kwJON4NFwGZ_GYGDj43xJmDD61kwJORXD. 2023
Media Coverage:
Specialist Advisor for Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys BBC 1 2016
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 PGR examinations performed:
Queens University, Ontario Canada, Shannon Smith, 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