UH Press authors biographies

Neal Geach is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Hertfordshire with research interests in e-commerce, electronic communications and media law.

Dr Gillian Gear completed her PhD at the University of London in 1999 on the subject of Certified Industrial Schools.

She was co-editor of Herts Past and Present, secretary of the Hertfordshire Association for Local History and also the archivist for Barnet Museum.

Judy Glasman is Dean of the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire.

Nigel Goose is Professor of Social and Economic History and Director of the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Hertfordshire.

He is an authority on English urban history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and has also published in the area of early modern population history. He is a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal Urban History.

Mark Gorman was born and brought up in north London. He studied history at Cambridge University and subsequently qualified as a teacher. After teaching in Nigeria he returned to West Africa for several years as a Programme coordinator for VSO. He has spent his working life in the field of international aid, and in 2008 was awarded an MBE for his services to international development. He lives in east London, on the borders of Epping Forest, which has enabled him to foster his twin passions for history and the environment. In 2018 he received a PhD for his study of popular protest and open space in Victorian London. He speaks and writes regularly on local history topics, and in recent years has been involved in the organisation of the annual Newham Heritage Festivals.

Anne Green is Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick.

She is also a member of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills Expert Panel.

Dr Margaret Greenfields undertook a first degree in social anthropology and law before qualifying as a lawyer and subsequently transferring into the field of legal policy.

Her doctorate focused on Traveller family issues and engagement with legal processes.

She is Director of the Institute of Diversity Research, Inclusivity, Communities and Society at Buckinghamshire New University.

Elizabeth Griffiths was an honorary research fellow at University of Exeter and co-author, with Jane Whittle, of Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth Century Household: The World of Alice Le Strange (OUP, 2012). She passed away in April 2020 while this volume was in preparation. It has been compiled and edited by her friend and research collaborator, Jane Whittle, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter and Series Editor of Studies in Regional and Local History.

Karoline Gritzner is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University.

Her research interests include contemporary British drama, modern European theatre, gender and sexuality, aesthetics and Critical Theory.

In 2004 she co-organised a symposium on ‘Theatrical Aesthetics of Eroticism and Death’ at Aberystwyth University.

Professor Ian Grosvenor and Dr Nicola Gauld are historians from the University of Birmingham.