TomCrook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University, UK.He has published a number of edited collections, including (with Glen O'Hara) Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbersand the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000 (2011). He is currentlycompleting a study of modernity and the governance of public health inVictorian and Edwardian England.
MikeEsbester is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Hisresearch focuses on the history of risk, safety and accident prevention inmodern Britain, and has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Counciland the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.He co-edited the April 2015 issue ofTechnology & Culture, on the international history of road safety.