Author: Billy Frank

Billy Frank is a senior lecturer and course leader in the School of Education and Social Science at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). His doctoral thesis examined Britain”s colonial development policy in Central and Southern Africa in the trans-World War Two period with special reference to Barclays Bank. He is currently researching the lives and careers of empire bankers in the post-independence period. Craig Horner is co-editor and book reviews editor of the Manchester Region History Review. His doctoral thesis was on the middling sorts of eighteenth-century Manchester; and he has published The Diary of Edmund Harrold, a Manchester Wigmaker (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). He guest-edited the Manchester Region History Review special volume on early modern Manchester (2008) and is now researching early motoring and society in the United Kingdom prior to World War One.David Stewart is BA (Hons.) History course leader at UCLan and, through his position as joint UCLan-People”s History Museum Research Fellow, has played an integral role in developing their institutional partnership. His research interests traverse twentieth-century political history, labour history and Scottish history. An innovative research monograph, based upon his PhD thesis, The Path to Devolution and Change: A Political History of Scotland under Margaret Thatcher, was published by I. B. Tauris in 2009.