GILLIAN LAMB holds an AHRC-Jesus doctoral scholarship at the University of Oxford. Her project focuses on the lives of poor working-class children and their families in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century Anglo-World. Through a concentration on families and children who encountered institutional care, she considers the impact of poverty, step-relationships and delinquency in this period, and explores the often long-lasting impact that welfare had on those who received it. Her work uncovers the significance of empire in creating social and geographical mobility for poor young people in nineteenth-century Britain and demonstrates how boys and girls were affected by their encounters with philanthropists.

GORDON LYNCH is Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on the history of UK child migration programmes, including Remembering Child Migration (London, 2015) and UK Child Migration to Australia, 1947–1970 (Basingstoke, 2021), and served as an expert witness on this history for two recent national child abuse inquiries in the United Kingdom. He has wider interests in both the moral framing of child welfare interventions and processes of investigation and redress for historic institutional abuse.

MARIA MARVEN obtained her PhD, entitled ‘Children’s convalescent homes, 1845–1970’, from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in British medical history and patients’ informed consent to treatment. Her current project explores the impact of printed and multimedia patient education material on patients’ understanding of their medical care and treatment decisions.

SIÂN POOLEY teaches modern British history at Magdalen College, Oxford. She is an associate professor in the History Faculty, University of Oxford and a director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for the History of Childhood. She is the co-author of Parenthood Between Generations: Transforming Reproductive Cultures (Oxford, 2016) and The Diary of Elizabeth Lee: Growing Up on Merseyside in the Late Nineteenth Century (Liverpool, 2010). Her research examines parenthood, children’s lives and welfare in modern Britain.

CAROLINE RUSTERHOLZ is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Her research interests include the history of sexuality, the history of reproductive politics and reproductive rights, the social history of medicine and the history of the family. Her publications include Women’s Medicine, Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective (1920–70) (Manchester, 2020); ‘Deux enfants c’est déjà pas mal’, Famille et fécondité en Suisse, 1955–1970 (Lausanne, 2017); ‘Youth sexuality, responsibility and the opening of the Brook Advisory Centre in London and Birmingham in the 1960s’, forthcoming Journal of British Studies. She is now writing a monograph provisionally entitled Responsible Adults: Youth Sexuality and the Brook Advisory Centres (1960s–1990s).

CLAUDIA SOARES is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, working on a project entitled ‘In care and after care: Emotions, institutions, and welfare in Britain, Australia, and Canada, 1820–1930’. She is writing her first monograph, A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her research interests include the family and childhood, poverty and welfare, the history of the emotions, migration and empire, and landscape and environment.

REBECCA SWARTZ is a postdoctoral research fellow in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State. She is researching histories of childhood, education and labour in the post-emancipation Cape Colony. Her first book, Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833–1880 (Cham, 2019) won the International Standing Conference on the History of Education first book prize and the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Grace Abbott book prize in 2020. She has published on histories of childhood and education in History of Education, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and Slavery & Abolition.

JONATHAN TAYLOR is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies and a keen proponent of interdisciplinary scholarship. Jonathan obtained his DPhil, entitled ‘Child protection, the family and the welfare state, 1933–1970’, from the University of Oxford. His most recent article, published in Medical Humanities, examines the impact of the evacuation of children on local welfare services during the Second World War. This work reflects a broader interest in understanding how external agencies have intervened in what are assumed to be very private relationships. Jonathan’s current work involves bringing together the insights of contemporary health and social work experts. This is in order to improve the health and well-being of care leavers through a training intervention designed for social work professionals.

LAURA TISDALL is a NUAcT Fellow in History at Newcastle University. Her publications include A Progressive Education? How Childhood Changed in Mid-Twentieth-Century English and Welsh Schools (Manchester, 2020) alongside journal articles on children in care in inter-war England, post-war education and parenting, and depictions of childhood in British horror and science fiction. Her current project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, uses British young people’s contemporary writing from c.1945 to c.1989 to examine how children and teenagers understood adulthood, youth and chronological age, and how this reflected a wider reconceptualization of both childhood and adulthood in Cold War Britain.

VALERIE WRIGHT is a historian of modern Scotland with particular expertise in gender, social and political history. She is currently a Research Associate in History at the University of Glasgow. She is the co-author of Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period (London, 2020) and Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955 (Edinburgh, 2021).