Nicola Verdon's work on the social and economic history of the British countryside in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries focuses on rural work patterns, family life and gender relations

A fresh perspective on how the rise of the clerical sector changed the workplace in the twentieth century

Professor Clare Midgley draws on her expertise in the history of British women's public activism to bring women's historic achievements into the public eye

Matthew Stibbe's research on different aspects of World War I captivity and post-war reintegration of POWs into society offers new ways of looking at the legacy of the First World War in the 1920s and early 1930s