As part of our editorial process, every new collection is subjected to review by leading academics and experts. We would like to thank the following people for their advice and support:
Adrian Bingham
Professor of Modern British HistoryUniversity of Sheffield
Adrian's main research interests are in the political, social and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain. He has worked extensively on the national popular press in the decades after 1918, examining the ways in which newspapers both reflected and shaped British society and culture.
Chandrika Kaul
Professor of Modern HistoryUniversity of St Andrews
Chandrika Kaul, D. Phil (Oxon), is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. Her research is focused on the British media and popular culture, especially the British press and the BBC; the British empire and decolonisation; and the British monarchy. Amongst her books include Reporting the Raj, the British Press and India; Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience; Media and the British Empire; International Communications and Global News Networks; News of the World and the British Press; Media and the Portuguese Empire. She is Founding Co-Editor of the book series: “Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media” (Palgrave Macmillan). She sits on the Advisory and Editorial Boards of Media History (Routledge), Twentieth Century British History (OUP), and Studies in Imperialism (MUP).
Esme Cleall
Senior LecturerUniversity of Sheffield
Esme Cleall is a Senior Lecturer in the history of the British Empire at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Missionary Discourses: Negotiating Otherness in the British empire, c. 1840-1900 (Palgrave, 2012) and of Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness across Britain and its Empire, c. 1800-1914 (Cambridge, 2022). She works on the history of race, gender, and disability in British and imperial contexts, particularly in the nineteenth century.
