Författare: Logie Barrow Susan Finding

Susan Finding, Professor in British Studies, has taught at Poitiers Univerity since 1987, after gaining her DPhil from the University of Sussex. Her research interests lie in social and political history, notably on questions of education and family policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. She most recently edited Abolition in Britain (1787–1840): Debate and Dissension (Paris: Sedes, 2009).Logie Barrow taught the social history of all more or less English-speaking countries outside North America at the University of Bremen from 1980 to 2008. He retired so as to spend more time researching history. He is the author of Democratic Ideas And the British Labour Movement, 1880–1914, with Ian Bullock, (2nd edition; Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850–1910 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986).François Poirier (†2010) was Lecturer at Université Paris 8, before he was appointed to a professorship at neighbouring Université Paris 13 in 1993. He published extensively on issues related to British politics, English social history, and Franco-British interaction. He sat on numerous academic boards in France and abroad. Among other books, he edited Londres, 1939–1945 (Paris: Autrement, 1995); News from Nowhere: William Morris (Paris: Armand Colin, 2004) with Elizabeth Gaudin; and Cordiale Angleterre—Regards trans-manche à la belle époque (Paris: Ophrys, 2010). The present volume is one of many tributes to him.