Dr Craig Horner
Lecturer in Community History at Manchester Metropolitan University
Deputy Director, MCRH, Manchester Metropolitan University
Co-editor and book reviews editor, Manchester Region History Review

Research interests:
Early modern Manchester
Craig Horner's doctoral thesis was on the middling sorts of eighteenth-century Manchester, 1730-60. He has transcribed and edited the Diary of Edmund Harrold (fl. 1712-5), wigmaker and bookseller (Ashgate, 2008). He guest-edited volume 19 (2008) of the Manchester Region History Review on early modern Manchester. Craig is working on a new edited transcription of Manchester Vindicated (1749) with Dr Tim Underhill of Cambridge University.

British motoring
Craig is also exploring aspects of society and early motoring in the UK and is researching the context of 'advice' writers (1900-1910) who encouraged a wider motoring experience before World War I. He has been awarded £2910 from the British Academy to undertake research at the National Motor Museum; has appeared on Radio 4's Eureka Years (July 2008), discussing the experience of early motoring; and on BBC4's The Fast Lady, a programme on Edwardian motoring (February 2009). Publications include (with Julian Greaves), ‘Mobility Spotting: Running of the Rails in the Transport Historiography of the UK’, in Gijs Mom (ed.): Mobility in History: Themes in Transport (2011); and '‘Modest Motoring’ and the Emergence of Automobility in the United Kingdom', Transfers (2011, forthcoming).

Craig has undertaken collaborative editorial work, notably (with Katy Layton-Jones and David Stewart) (eds), ‘Visual Collections as Historical Evidence’, Special volume of Visual Resources, 24(2), 2008; and (with David Stewart and Billy Frank) (eds), British labour movement and imperialism (Cambridge Scholar Press, 2010).

c.horner@mmu.ac.uk