Clarisse Berthezène is Professor of Modern History at the University of Paris, France, and she has published widely on conservatism in Britain and abroad in the 20th century, including Training minds for ideas. Ashridge College, the Conservative Party and the cultural politics of Britain, 1929-54 (2015).

Julie V. Gottlieb is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK, and she has published extensively in the field of women and politics in the first half of the 20th century, including 'Guilty Women', Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Interwar Britain (2015).

Together the co-editors of this volume organised the Rethinking Right-Wing Women conference in Oxford in 2015.