Dr Emma Robertson is Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, Australia. Her first book, Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History, was published in 2009. Additional publications from her research on the chocolate industry have appeared in the edited collection Women and Work Cultures, Britain 1850 1950 (ed. Krista Cowman and Louise Jackson, 2005); Business History; BBC History Magazine (April 2010) and online at www.cocoareworks.co.uk. She has also published on the history of radio in relation to the BBC Empire/World Service and is writing a co-authored book on this topic