Nadine is a lecturer in British History at the Université Grenoble Alpes where she is a member of the Institut des langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie (ILCEA4, UFR SoCLE). She is the author of a PhD thesis entitled ‘Politique territoriale et enjeux stratégiques sous le mandat de Lord Dalhousie en Inde (1848-1856)’ (Université Lyon 3, 2003), published as L’Inde de Lord Dalhousie, 1848-1856. Le sous-continent indien, nation en devenir (Université Lyon 3, 2007). Her research has focused on the East India Company, British India and China in the first half of the nineteenth century and British expansionism in Asia in the nineteenth century. She translated into French and annotated Alexander Burnes’s Cabool (1842) as Mission à Kaboul. La relation de sir Alexander Burnes (1836-1838) (Chandeigne, 2012).
Aude has been a university lecturer at the Institut catholique d’études supérieures in Modern British and French History and is an associate researcher at the Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle (Panthéon-Sorbonne). She specialises in the history of ideas and in political science. She has taught British, American and French history and civilisation in France and in the United Kingdom (Université Paris-Est Créteil (AEI International School), Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Polytechnique, St Andrews). For the last few years, she’s been working on the links between religion and liberty in post-revolutionary Europe. Recent publications include a monograph on T. B. Macaulay et la Révolution française. La pensée libérale whig en débat (Michel Houdiard Éditeur, 2018), the aim of which was to propose a redefinition of British liberal thought in light of the French Revolution, an edited book on An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe 1789–1870 (Bloomsbury, 2024) and articles on Lord Acton.
Myriam , a professor of British History and Civilisation at the Université Le Havre Normandie and a member of the Groupe de recherche Identités et cultures (GRIC), is a specialist of British gender history and citizenship in the long nineteenth century and co-editor of Frontières de la citoyenneté (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024). Publishing on British women’s emancipation campaigns as an editor of Suffrage Outside Suffragism (Palgrave, 2007), she was a historic consultant featuring in a documentary film Les Suffragettes, ni paillassons, ni prostituées (Michèle Dominici, 2012). She has published on British women’s first internationalism and their congresses: in 1893 Chicago in Relations internationales 164 (Presses universitaires de France, 2016) and in 1908 Amsterdam. She co-edited Women in International and Universal Exhibitions 1876–1937 (Routledge, 2018) and with eleven other colleagues, L’Europe des femmes. XVIII-XXIe siècle (Perrin, 2017). She is currently working on self-writing and British masculinities before the First World War and has edited History and the Writing of the Self: Diaries and Diary-Keepers (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
Aris obtained his PhD in history from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the Université de Lausanne, with a thesis on political economy and reform projects in eighteenth-century Venice. His scholarly interests centre on the political utilisation, international dissemination, and epistemological underpinnings of political economy during the long eighteenth century. He collaborated on the research project Enlightenment Agrarian Republics (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) and has authored articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited volumes. He edited Histories of Trade as Histories of Civilisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) alongside Antonella Alimento, and Venezia e la Francia tra Medioevo ed età Moderna. Similitudini, specificità, interrelazioni (Cesati, 2024) with Enrico Castro and Enea Pezzini.
Alessandro D holds two PhDs in political sciences (University of Genoa, University of Pisa). He is actually a postdoc researcher with a project on contemporary dystopian literature and meritocracy, and an adjunct professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Turin. His research areas include history of political thought, utopian and dystopian studies, political philosophy, epistemology and ethics. He published several articles and essays, a monograph Politica e Coscienza. Thomas Hill Green e il Liberalismo Sociale (Genova University Press, 2020), and attended numerous international conferences.
John-Erik H is a lecturer in British History at Université Paris Cité and a member of the Laboratoire de recherches sur les cultures anglophones (LARCA, UMR 8225). He specialises in the intellectual, cultural and literary history of British radicalism, from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His work focuses particularly on William Godwin and his circle and on the history of anarchism.
Samuel H is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Sylvana Tomaselli. His work focuses on the intellectual history of the French Revolution and the history of the idea of dignity in Europe.
Ben J is professor of Modern History at Oxford University. He is a historian of modern Britain with a particular interest in the role of ideas in political debate and policymaking. He has written about the political thought of the British Left, the history of neoliberalism, and Scottish nationalism. He recently co-edited The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s (UCL Press, 2021).
Pushpa K is a lecturer in Foundation Year Studies at Birmingham Newman University. She has published articles about adult education and the labour movement in the Women’s History Review (2022), Socialist History (2021), Urban History (2020), the History of Education Journal (2020) and the Journal of Co-operative Studies (2016).
Julie M is an associate professor of US Studies and Media Studies at the Université de Lorraine and a researcher at the Interdisciplinarité dans les études anglophones (IDEA) centre. She received her PhD from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she wrote her dissertation From the ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ to the Long Now Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area: Coevolution on the Creative ‘Frontier’ (1955–2020). A visiting researcher at the University of California Berkeley from 2014 to 2017 and research fellow at the Long Now Foundation since 2015, she focuses on pioneers and thinkers within the San Francisco Bay Area counterculture and cyberculture spheres. From the authors of the Beat Generation to do-it-yourself hackers, she studies the emergence of technology as a social tool on a creative territory rooted in utopian and libertarian ideologies. Her research also explores connections between offline and virtual communities within a context of Braudelian longue durée and human-machine coevolution.
Edmund N is an associate professor of Modern History at Northeastern University, London, and head of the Faculty of History and Art History. He is the author of Michael Oakeshott (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Conservatism (Polity, 2021), which won the Political Studies Association Conservatism Group Prize (2022). He has also written extensively on modern British history and the history of political thought for journals such as Twentieth Century British History, History of European Ideas, Political Studies Review and Revue française de civilisation britannique. He is currently editing a collection of essays investigating the conceptual relationship of conservatism to ‘the Right’ for Manchester University Press, and a special issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of History comparing the historical methodologies of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault.
Bianca is a lecturer in British and European Politics at the Institut des relations internationales at the Université de Strasbourg and a member of the Savoirs dans l’espace anglophone : représentations, culture, histoire (SEARCH) research unit. Her work focuses on UK-EU relations, Europeanisation, and Euroscepticism.
Marlyse P is lecturer emeritus in Economics at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne and a member of the Centre lillois d’études et de recherches sociologiques et économiques (Clersé) laboratory, UMR CNRS 8019 at the Université de Lille. She began her career researching the place of women in economic theory: Travail domestique et pouvoir masculin, in collaboration with Michèle Severs (Cerf, 1983). Then she turned her attention to the question of politics in economic theories, co-editing two books: Économie et démocratie (L’Harmattan, 2003). Influenced by the analysis of Hannah Arendt, she has pursued a critical study of the history of economic thought, resulting in a series of articles in several journals, in particular the Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique.
Roberto R is associate professor of Economic History at the University of Palermo, teaches history of management and history of global economic scenarios. His scientific interests lie in the study of pre-capitalist enterprises and organisational and management models between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular, he studied the work organisation and managerial models of textile enterprises in the eighteenth century and the institutions for social control through labour discipline. Among his latest publications are: ‘The Real Junta Particular de Comercio of Barcelona: A Model of Mediation between Central Power and Local Economic Bodies (18th-19th Centuries)’, Journal of European Economic History, 1, 2024; ‘Accounting and Accountability Practices in the Obraje of San Ildefonso of Quito: An Eighteenth Century Productive Proto-Capitalist Model’, Accounting History, 1 (32), 2022.
Richard S is a lecturer at the Université de Lorraine. He is primarily interested in the concept of historicity in the nineteenth century as manifested in the fields of natural science, historiography and literature. This interdisciplinary work naturally led to an interest in the history of disciplines and disciplinarity, and to the co-editing of two collections of essays: Mapping Fields of Study: The Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies (Presses universitaires de Nancy, 2019) and Ordering Knowledge: Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity (Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023). He has also published articles on evolutionary thought and evolutionary popularisation in France and in Britain, and on illustration and narrative form used as argumentative strategy in popular science and popular history writing; as well as pieces on specific nineteenth-century authors, both French and British.
Iason Z is a historian. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and his research project is the reinterpretation of climate inaction through the history of contemporary ideologies across the Atlantic space. He has taught American history at the University of Piraeus and worked in Greek and EU-funded research projects. He has also published papers on the history of liberalism, conservatism and climate change as well as the theory of ideology and consumerism. He is the co-editor of the two-volume project The Making of the Atlantic Monarchy, to be published by Bloomsbury and has co-authored a monograph on contemporary Greek history.