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Oliver Betts is Research Lead at the National Railway Museum in York. He specializes in the history of technology and class, exploring how working-class worlds across the Anglophone world were reshaped by technologies. He has published on workers, communities, and industry in history and museums.

Laura Harrison is an Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of the West of England. She specializes in histories of youth and youth culture and is the author of Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class, and urban space in Britain, c.1870-1939 (2022).

Laura Christine Price is a historian, teacher and writer. Her PhD thesis, completed at the University of York, explored wool textile workers’ relationships to trade unionism. She is an independent researcher and teaches at a secondary school in West Yorkshire.