Edited by Lucy Noakes, Rab Butler Professor in Modern History, University of Essex, Claire Langhamer, Professor of Modern British History, University of Sussex, and Claudia Siebrecht, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Sussex

Claire Langhamer is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sussex. She works on feelings, ordinariness and everyday life and makes particular use of the Mass Observation Archive, of which she is a Trustee. Her publications include articles on home, happiness, adultery, children's writing and women's work and the books Women's Leisure in England, 1920-1960 (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000) and The English in Love: the intimate story of an emotional revolution (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013). She is currently writing a history of Feelings at Work in Modern Britain.

Lucy Noakes is a social and cultural historian working at the University of Essex, where she holds the Rab Butler Chair in Modern History. Her work focuses on the two total wars of the twentieth century, and explores issues of gender, memory, selfhood and memory. Publications include War and the British (1998), War and the Gentle Sex (2006), and British Cultural Memory and the Second World War, edited with Juliette Pattinson. She is currently writing a history of death, grief and bereavement in Second World War Britain for Manchester University Press.

Dr Claudia Siebrecht is Senior Lecturer in modern history at the University of Sussex and her research interests include the cultural history of war, the history of emotions and visual history. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and has taught at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women's Art of the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2013), has recently co-edited Parenting and the State in Britain and Europe, 1870-1950: Raising the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and her current book project is a cultural history of concentration camps.

Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne
Martin Francis, University of Sussex
Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute
Susan R. Grayzel, Utah State University
Claire Langhamer, University of Sussex
Lucy Noakes, University of Essex
Michael Roper, University of Essex
Claudia Siebrecht, University of Sussex

"With its academic rigour and theoretical thoroughness, the book will certainly help scholars delve deeper into this important topic." - Birgit Schneider, War in History Book Reviews