Notes on contributors
Lawrence Black teaches History at the University of York. Peter Mandler supervised Lawrence’s doctoral research between 1995 and 1999, which was later published as The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951–64: Old Labour, New Britain? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Laura Carter is an historian of modern Britain whose work focuses on histories of education, gender and social change. She currently teaches British History at Université Paris Cité in Paris, France. Her first book, Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918–1979 (Oxford University Press, 2021) was nominated for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Book Prize in 2022. This book was based on her PhD thesis, which was supervised by Professor Peter Mandler.
Deborah Cohen is the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Last Call at the Hotel Imperial (Random House/William Collins, 2022). She and Peter Mandler co-wrote ‘The History Manifesto: A Critique’ (American Historical Review, April 2015).
Heidi Egginton has been curator of political collections and archives of art and artists at the National Library of Scotland since 2019. She co-edited Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain with Zoë Thomas (Royal Historical Society in association with University of London Press, 2021), and has published articles on women bibliophiles and interwar antiques collecting in the Journal of Victorian Culture and Twentieth Century British History. She completed her PhD on the history of collecting, supervised by Peter Mandler, at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 2017.
Margot Finn is Astor Professor of British History at UCL. Peter Mandler’s successor as president of the Royal Historical Society (2016–20), she takes a lively interest in open access publication and open science policies, when not researching East India Company histories, circa 1750s–1850s.
Richard Fisher was managing director of academic publishing at Cambridge University Press and deputy chairman of Yale University Press. He has served two separate terms as vice president of the Royal Historical Society, and continues to advise both scholars and publishers about Open Access.
Freddy Foks is Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (University of California Press, 2023).
Rosie Germain is a lecturer in the history of education at Liverpool Hope University. She completed her fully funded PhD on the reception of French existentialism in Britain and the United States at the University of Cambridge in 2014 under the supervision of Professor Peter Mandler. Rosie has previously published on ideas of freedom and their implementation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Philip Harling is professor of history and director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami. He is the author of Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840–1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2024), The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction (Polity Press, 2001), and The Waning of ‘Old Corruption’: The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779–1846 (Clarendon Press, 1996), which began life as a PhD dissertation supervised by Peter Mandler and Lawrence Stone at Princeton University.
Christopher Hilliard is the Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney. His books include A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England (Princeton University Press, 2021) and The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Rebecca Lyons is based at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where she is the director of collections, library, archive and public programmes. Rebecca has worked for the National Trust, the National Gallery, Christie’s and most recently as the director of the Attingham Trust’s prestigious Royal Collection Studies course.
Ambreena Manji is professor of land law and development, and holds the position of Africa Dean at Cardiff University. Her research is in the area of African law and society.
Iwan Morgan is emeritus professor of US Studies at University College London. He joined City of London Polytechnic’s Politics and Government Department in 1973 and was head of department of London Guildhall University’s Politics and Modern History Department from 1994 to 2002. His teaching and research have focused on US political history. His most recent book is FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Guy Ortolano is professor of history and chair of the History Department at New York University. He is the author of Thatcher’s Progress (2019) and The Two Cultures Controversy (2009), both published by Cambridge University Press. He worked with Peter Mandler on the New York–Cambridge Training Collaboration from 2015 to 2024.
Susan Pedersen is Gouverneur Morris Professor of British History at Columbia University. She has written widely on British, European and international politics after 1900. Her most recent book is The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2015). She is now completing a book about love and politics in the Balfour family.
Otto Saumarez Smith teaches architectural and urban history at the University of Warwick. He is chair of the Twentieth Century Society’s Casework Committee, and the author of Boom Cities, Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Andrew Stacey-Chapman studied history and then for his PGCE in secondary history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He taught for ten years at Northallerton School and Sixth Form College, a comprehensive school in North Yorkshire. He was recently involved as a history teacher consultant for the ESRC-funded ‘Secondary Education and Social Change in the United Kingdom since 1945’ research project, led by Peter Mandler.
Rebecca Sullivan started her working life at Yale University Press in their publicity department before studying History at LSE. In 1992 she began a part-time research degree at Kings College London. Over the next few years Rebecca worked for the Society for Research into Higher Education, gave some thought to women in Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian society, taught briefly at Birkbeck and also taught some Workers’ Educational Association classes until realising the academic world was doing fine without her. In 1996 she joined the Historical Association as marketing and publications manager. She then joined an online publishing company for a while before going to Longman (Pearson Education) as senior humanities publisher in the schools division. Rebecca was appointed as CEO of the Historical Association in early 2007.
Chika Tonooka is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow and an academic associate at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She is an historian of modern Britain in a global context. Her forthcoming monograph, Rival Civilisations: The Rise of Japan and Ideas of World Order in Britain, c.1880–1945, examines British intellectual responses to the rise of Japan as the first modern Asian power.
Ben Weinstein is a lecturer in British history at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Liberal and Local Government in Early-Victorian London (Royal Historical Society, 2011). He is currently working on a study of British imperial thought during the 1820s and 1830s.
Sally Woodcock is an easel paintings conservator and technical art historian. Her longstanding interest in the trade in artists’ materials in nineteenth-century Britain began at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, examining the papers of the Victorian artists’ colourman Charles Roberson. She is currently preparing her PhD thesis, Charles Roberson, London Colourman, and the Trade in Artists’ Materials 1820–1939, for publication.