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Quentin Outram Editor & Author

Quentin Outram is Senior Lecturer in Leeds University Business School in the University of Leeds, UK, a trained economist and also an economic, labour and social historian. He is the author with Roy Church of Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966 (1998). His most recent work, forthcoming in the Economic History Review, is on domestic service in Edwardian England.

Keith Laybourn is Diamond Jubilee Professor of the University of Huddersfield, UK, and has written extensively on British labour history, the history of policing, and gambling. He was co-author of The Battle for the Roads of Britain (2015), and is currently writing a history of greyhound racing in Britain.