Chair of the History Honours Program

Associate Professor

Office: 456 Fletcher Argue Building
e-mail: Chris.Frank@ad.umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-9715

EDUCATION

Ph.D., York University
M.A., York University
B.A. (Hons.), Portland State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nineteenth century British labour/legal history

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Master and Servant Law:  Chartists, Trade Unions, Radical Lawyers and the Magistracy in England, 1840-1865 (Ashgate, 2010)

"Truck or Trade?  Anti-Truck Associations and the Campaign Against the Payment of Wages in Goods in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain." Historical Studies in Industrial Relations Vol. 27/28 (Spring/Autumn 2009), pp.1-40.

Contributions to The Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution (2 Vols), Ed: Christine Rider (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007) and The Encyclopedia of Abolitionism (2 Vols), Eds: Peter Hinks and John McKivigan (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007).

"'Let but one of them come before me, and I'll commit him": Trade Unions, Magistrates, and the Law in Mid-Nineteenth Century Staffordshire", Journal of British Studies 44:1 (January, 2005).

"The Defeat of the 1844 Master and Servants Bill", in Douglas Hay and Paul Craven, eds. Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and Empire, 1562-1955, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

"'He might almost as well be without trial': Trade Unions and the 1823 Master and Servant Act--the Warrington Cases, 1846-1847", Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 14 (Autumn 2002): 3-45.

COURSES TAUGHT

2012-2013
HIST 1200 Introduction to Western Civilization
HIST 2210 History of Britain, 1485-Present
HIST 2360 Europe, 1870-Present

Summer 2012
HIST 1200 Introduction to Western Civilization

2011-2012
HIST 1350 Introduction to Western Civlization to 1500
HIST 1360 Introduction to Westen Civilization from 1500
HIST 2220 The Shaping of Modern Ireland, 1500-Present

2010-2011
HIST 1350 A01 Introduction to Western Civilization to 1500
HIST 1350 A02 Introduction to Western Civilization to 1500
HIST 3110 Topics in History I: 20th Century Britain

2009-10
HIST 1350 Introduction to Western Civliziation to 1500
HIST 4110/7230 Topics in British History: 19th Century Britain

2008-09 (on leave Term 2)
HIST 1350 Introduction to Western Civilization to 1500
HIST 2210 History of Britain

2007-08
HIST 1200 Introduction to Western Civilization
HIST 2210 History of Britain

2006-07
HIST 1200 Introduction to Western Civilization
HIST 2900 Social Topics: Modern Ireland, 1600-Present