Professor Jerry White teaches London history at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy of London (London in the Eighteenth Century, London in the Nineteenth Century and London in the Twentieth Century, which won the Wolfson History Prize) and Zeppelin Nights, a social history of London during the First World War. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.