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About the Authors.
Angela Ranson (amr524@york.ac.uk) is a doctoral student at the
University of York. Her research interests focus on the Church of
England and the English Reformation. In 2012, she published an article about recantation strategies in the inaugural issue of the Journal
of History and Cultures. This followed a 2011 article about the contributions of the Nicodemites to the Elizabethan church, published in
the University of Limerick’s journal History Studies. In 2009, she acted as co-editor and contributing author for a book about adult illiteracy entitled Breaking the Word Barrier.
Jennifer Crane (j.m.crane@warwick.ac.uk) is a first-year doctoral
student at the University of Warwick researching the emergence of
the concept of 'child abuse' in the British context between 1960 and
2012. She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from
the University of Oxford, and an MA in the History of Medicine
from the University of Warwick. This article is based on the research conducted for her Masters dissertation on the evacuation of
British children during World War Two.
Niall MacGalloway (njm23@st-andrews.ac.uk) is currently a doctoral student at the University of St Andrews, having completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis is entitled, ‘The Italian Occupation of
South-Eastern France, 1940-1943’. His research interests include
Italian Fascism, the Second World War, societies under occupation,
collaboration and resistance, inter-war Europe, post-war Italy and
twentieth-century France.
Stewart McCain (stewart.mccain@history.ox.ac.uk) has degrees in
History from the universities of Sussex and Oxford. He is currently
completing his doctorate, entitled ‘The Language Question under
Napoleon’ at Worcester College, Oxford, and is interested in diverse
aspects of the social, cultural and political history of France during
the ‘long’ nineteenth century.
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Caitlin Scott (C.Scott@warwick.ac.uk) is currently a Masters student
in History at the University of Warwick, having graduated from
Warwick with a BA (Hons) in History. Her research interests include
the social, cultural and religious history of seventeenth-century England. Her current dissertation project investigates the three-way interaction between central government at Whitehall, local magistrates, populations and radical religious sects during the Interregnum of 1649-1660, focusing on the practical implementation and limits of official policies at local level.
Will Riddington (wr245@cam.ac.uk) is a first-year History doctoral
student at the University of Cambridge. He studied at the University
of Leeds for his undergraduate and Masters degrees. This paper is an
extract from his MA dissertation, a rhetorical analysis of the New
Right that also explored the Iran-Contra affair and President Clinton's healthcare reforms. His current research focuses on the relationship between rhetoric and policy formation in the Reagan Administration, with a particular focus on the extent of grassroots influence in this process.
Adam Timmins (a.d.timmins@lboro.ac.uk) is a final-year postgraduate student at Loughborough University.
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