Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. She is an expert on Mary Wollstonecraft and a historian of both feminism and psychoanalysis. She is a contributor to Episode 5 and Episode 14 of ‘Five Hundred … Continue reading
Jenna Bailey is a writer and historian whose research at the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex led to her discovery of the surviving papers of the Co-operative Correspondence Club, which is featured in Episode 13 of ‘Five Hundred … Continue reading
Michael Kay is a historian of science and technology at the University of Leeds, where he is completing his PhD thesis on the early social history of the telephone in Britain, as part of a collaborative project between the University and … Continue reading
Dr Santanu Das is Reader in English Literature at King’s College London, and the author of Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature. In this blog post he explores the unique kind of male bonding that occurred in the trenches, … Continue reading
Professor Seth Koven of Rutgers University researches and teaches the social, economic and cultural history of Britain and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His award-winning book, Slumming: Social and Sexual Politics in Victorian London (Princeton University Press, 2004) analyzed the relationship … Continue reading
Paul Reed is a military historian with particular expertise in the battlefields of the Western Front. He is the author of several books, including Great War Lives and Walking the Somme. In this blog post he discusses how to interpret the … Continue reading
Dr Angharad Eyre is an expert on religion in Victorian Britain, including its impact on women’s lives, education, and careers. In this blog post she describes the emotional life of Westfield College Principal Constance Maynard, and the unusual friendship network she … Continue reading
Emma Townshend is a writer and journalist, and the author of Darwin’s Dogs: How Darwin’s Pets Helped Form a World-Changing Theory of Evolution. In this post for the History of Emotions blog she writes about new research she has been … Continue reading
Dr Helen Rogers is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. With her undergraduate students she has created Writing Lives: A Collaborative Research Project on Working-Class Autobiography. This blog post, written by Helen with Cleo Chalk, Steve Clark, John … Continue reading
Mark Vernon writes on the application of philosophical wisdom to modern life, and teaches at The Idler Academy and The School of Life in London. His many books on philosophical topics include The Meaning of Friendship. Here he asks what philosophy can tell us about … Continue reading