BradBeavenis Reader in Social and Cultural History at the University of Portsmouth, UK.He has written widely on British popular culture in the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. He is the author of two monographs, Leisure, Citizenship and Working Class Men, 1850-1945 and Visions of Empire. Patriotism, PopularCulture and the City, 1870-1939.
Karl Bell is Senior Lecturerin History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research explores thesupernatural in nineteenth-century Britain. He is the author of two monographs,The Magical Imagination: Magic andModernity in Urban England, 1780-1914 and The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and PopularCultures.
RobertJamesis Senior Lecturer in History at the University ofPortsmouth, UK. He researches British society's leisure habits in thelate-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and is author of PopularCulture and Working-Class Taste in Britain 1930-39: a round of cheapdiversions? and co-editor of Hollywoodand the World.