Dr Katie Barclay is Deputy-Director of the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions and Associate Professor in History, University of Adelaide. She is the author of ‘Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850’ (Manchester University Press, 2011), ‘Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Ireland, 1800-45’ (Manchester University Press, 2018) and numerous articles on the history of emotion, identity and family.

In her contribution to the Research Exchange, she discusses the eighteenth-century wedding certificates that were an important historical source for her most recently article ‘Doing the Paperwork: the Emotional World of Wedding Certificates’, published online with Cultural & Social History on 14 March 2019.

Dr Hannah Elizabeth is a cultural historian who received a PhD in 2016 from the University of Manchester on the history of the representation of HIV to children and adolescents in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s, and is now a research assistant on the ‘Placing the Public in Public Health’ project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looking into how the public’s emotions were imagined and how emotion figured in the success or failure of different health initiatives in post-war Britain.

In their contribution to the Research Exchange, they discuss the challenges of vacccination programmes reaching young people, which is also the focus of their recent article, ”Injections-While-You-Dance’: Press Advertisement and Poster Promotion of the Polio Vaccine to British Publics, 1956–1962′, with Dr Gareth Millward and Dr Alex Mold for Cultural & Social History.

Dr Susan Bayley holds a PhD from McGill University, Montreal and a PGCE from the University of Keele. She taught in the Faculty of Education at McGill and until retirement in 2009 in the Humanities Department at Dawson College, Montreal. Her special interest is the history of modern language teaching in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England. Her forthcoming article in Literature and History focuses on fictional images of German governesses in Edwardian popular culture.  

In her contribution to the Research Exchange, she explains how her latest article fits into her wider research on the history and literary representations of governesses. She is the author of ‘Votary, Vixen and Vulgarian: German governesses and English Domesticity in Novels by Charlotte Yonge, Charlotte Brontë and Mary Braddon’, Cultural and Social History, vol. 15, no. 5 (2018), pp. 643-661.

Dr Michelle Johansen is Interpretation Manager at the Bishopsgate Foundation in London and the author of ‘‘The Supposed Paradise of Pen and Ink’: Self-education and Social Mobility in the London Public Library (1880–1930)’, Cultural and Social History, published online on 5 February 2019.

In her contribution to the Research Exchange, she prompts us to think about the upward social mobility offered historically by embarking on a career as a librarian and to question where librarians fit in histories of ‘us’ and ‘them’.

Dr Daniel Jütte is Associate Professor at New York University and the author of ‘The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800’ (Yale University Press, 2015) and ‘The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History’ (Yale University Press, 2015). He is currently working on a history of transparency from antiquity to modern times.

In his contribution to the Research Exchange, he explains how the introduction of glass windows was bound up with broader social and cultural changes in early modern Europe, which he discusses further in his recent article ‘Comfort, Class and Climate Change: The Rise of Glass in Late Medieval and Early Modern Domestic Architecture’, Cultural and Social History, vol. 15, no. 5 (2018), pp. 621-641.

Dr Amy Palmer is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Roehampton. She is a former school teacher whose research interests lie in children’s literature and policy development in the history of early years education, including her doctoral research on ‘Nursery schools or nursery classes? An analysis of national and local policy in England 1918-1972’. She has published in the journals History of Education and Paedagogica Historica. 

In her contribution to the Research Exchange, Dr Pamer reflects on how she came to research the Peasant Arts Movement in her latest journal article ‘Radical Conservatism and International Nationalism: The Peasant Arts Movement and Its Search for the Country Heart of England’ in Cultural and Social History, vol. 15, no. 5 (2018), pp. 663-680.