Notes on contributors

Kristine Alexander is an associate professor of history at the University of Lethbridge, which is located on Blackfoot Territory in southern Alberta, Canada. Her publications include Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s (UBC Press, 2017) and the edited volumes Small Stories of War: Children, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) and A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2022). Her current research analyses concepts of age, race and development in the history of the Canadian settler state.

Maria Cannon is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research interests are family, gender, emotions and the life cycle in early modern England. Her current project, ‘Blending the Family: Affection, Obligation and Dynasty in Early Modern English Stepfamilies’, explores emotion and authority in blended families. She is a co-convener of the Life Cycles seminar at the Institute of Historical Research and a committee member of the Children’s History Society.

Barbara Crosbie is an associate professor in the Department of History, Durham University, UK. She specialises in British social and cultural history with a particular interest in age relations and the process of historical change. Her first monograph, Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England (2020), follows an age cohort from the nurseries and schoolrooms of the 1740s through the volatile terrain of adolescence and into the adult world, tracing the roots of a generational divide that spilled into the political arena in the 1770s. She is currently working on a second book that complements this macro approach with a micro study of the life cycle, At Home with Ralph Jackson 1749–1791: Age and Masculinity in Georgian England.

Lucy Delap teaches modern history at the University of Cambridge, UK and is a fellow of Murray Edwards College. She has published widely on the history of feminism, gender, sexuality, labour and religion, including the prize-winning The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century (2007), Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain (2011) and Feminisms: A Global History (2020). Her current research is in disability history and includes ‘Slow Workers: Labelling and Labouring in Britain, c. 1909–1955’ (Social History of Medicine, 2023).

Kristin Hay (she/her) is a historian of gender and medicine, with a particular focus on women’s reproductive health and rights and oral history. She is a recipient of the Neil Rafeek Oral History Prize and the Leah Leneman (Runner Up) Essay Prize. Her recent research examined the impact of changing birth control practices in Scotland between 1965 and 1980, exploring how heterosexual men and women learned about, accessed and accepted birth control following the so-called ‘sexual revolution’, and the subsequent impact it had on their lives.

Jack Hodgson is a lecturer in history at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He received his PhD from Northumbria University in 2022 and was previously awarded the Scottish Association for the Study of America’s Ellen Craft Prize. His research primarily examines the history of children’s rights and children’s political agency in American history. His first book, Young Reds in the Big Apple: The New York Young Pioneers of America, 1923–1934, is forthcoming with Fordham University Press.

Andrea Sofía Regueira Martín is a lecturer in the Department of English and German at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She received her PhD from the University of Zaragoza in 2022. Her research focuses on filmic representations of the transition to contemporary adulthood and on virtual spaces of girlhood in contemporary film. She is a member of the research project ‘From Social Space to Cinematic Space: Mise-en-Scènes of the Transnational in Contemporary Cinema’.

Emily E. Robson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her doctoral research explores early modern English representations of male prophets, as well as the blurred boundaries between extraordinary prophecy and exegesis. She is currently working on an article examining the activities of William Juniper, the ‘Gosfield Seer’. Emily’s research interests include ecclesiastical reform, early modern Protestantism and the interrelation of gender and religion.

Laura Tisdall is a senior lecturer in history at Newcastle University, UK. She is a historian of childhood, adolescence, adulthood and chronological age in modern Britain and the United States. Her first book, A Progressive Education?, was published by Manchester University Press in 2020, and her most recent publication is a ‘state of the field’ article on the history of childhood in History (2022). She is currently working on a book on age and adulthood in Britain between c.1956 and c.1989, which is under contract with Yale University Press London.

Holly N.S. White is an adjunct professor of history at William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA. She specialises in the history of age, childhood and youth in the early United States. She is the co-editor of Engaging Children in Vast Early America (Routledge, 2024). Her first authored book, Negotiating American Childhood: Age-Based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press in 2025.

Grace Whorrall-Campbell is a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK. Her doctoral research examined the application of psy-science to management and the workplace in postwar Britain. Grace’s work has been published in the edited collection Feelings and Work in Modern History: Emotional Labour and Emotions about Labour (Bloomsbury, 2022). Grace’s research interests include the history of labour, gender, sexuality, mental health and the psychosocial in modern Britain.

Deborah Youngs is a professor of late medieval and early Tudor British history who has published widely on gender, law, ageing and the life course in women’s experiences, 1350–1550. Her latest publications explore women’s litigation in the central law courts of Tudor England including (with Teresa Phipps) the edited book Litigating Women: Gender and Justice in Europe, c.1300–c.1800 (Routledge, 2021). She is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) at Swansea University, UK.