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Hester Barron Editor & Author

Hester Barron is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex, and is especially interested in the themes of identity, community, childhood, parenting and schooling. Her previous publications include The 1926 Miners' Lockout: Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield (2009).

Claudia Siebrecht is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex, with interests in  the cultural history of war and violence in 20th century Germany and Europe. Her previous work includes The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women’s Art of the First World War (2013).