I really enjoyed this collective longitudinal biographical study and refreshing approach to history.
Lyndsey Jenkins is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Britain with a particular interest in gender, politics, and social change. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Her doctoral research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and undertaken at Wolfson College, Oxford. She holds degrees from the University of Warwick, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University
of East Anglia. She has taught at Mansfield, Magdalen and St John's Colleges, Oxford, as well as the University of Reading, King's College, London, and Queen Mary. She was a civil servant for ten years, and spent most of that time as a government speechwriter, working for cabinet ministers on issues
relating to education, housing, and local government.