Claire Langhamer is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sussex and a Trustee of the Mass-Observation Archive. She has written on women's leisure, courtship and bigamy, happiness, children, domesticity and emotional politics. Her most recent book was The English in Love. The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution (OUP, 2013); her next will be Feelings at Work in Modern Britain (also OUP). She came to Brighton from East Yorkshire, via Manchester. Hester Barron is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex. Her first book was The 1926 Miners' Lockout. Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield (OUP, 2010). She has since published extensively on the history of childhood and education in modern Britain and is currently completing a monograph to be published by MUP, Classroom and Community: Elementary education in London, 1918-39. She grew up in Durham but now lives in Hurstpierpoint, a village near Brighton, with her family.