Penny Tinkler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her publications include Constructing Girlhood (1995), Smoke Signals: Women, Smoking and Visual Culture (2006) and Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research (2013). She currently holds an ESRC award: 'Transitions and Mobilities: Girls growing up in Britain 1954-76 and the implications for later-life experience and identity'.

Stephanie Spencer is Professor of the History of Women's Education at the University of Winchester, UK. Her publications include Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s (2005), and Alumni Voices: The Changing Experience of Higher Education (2015). She is currently researching British and American school stories for girls.

Claire Langhamer is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sussex, UK. Her publications include Women's Leisure in England, 1920-1960 (2000) and The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution (2013). She is currently researching feelings at work in post-war Britain.