IAN GREGORY is Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Lancaster University. He mainly works on how computer technology, especially mapping technologies, can be used to better understand the past. As well as work on the First World War he works on projects involving a wide range of digitised historical sources including historical newspapers, public health reports, census data and Lake District literature. He has published four other books: Troubled Geographies: A spatial history of religion and society in Ireland; Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History; Historical GIS: Technologies, methodologies, scholarship; and A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research. He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters.
CORINNA PENISTON-BIRD is a senior lecturer in cultural and gender history in the Department of History at Lancaster University. Since 1998, her research and teaching has centred on gender dynamics in Britain in the world wars, with a particular interest in the relationship between memories and cultural representations, and on the emphases and omissions of war memorials. She is currently working on gendered commemoration, with a particular focus on British war memorials. Previous publications include, with Penny Summerfield, Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007) as well as three edited collections and numerous articles.
PETER DONNELLY is the Curator of the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, located within Lancaster City Museum. The Museum collection covers the history of the King’s Own, or 4th Regiment of Foot, from 1680 until 1959 when the regiment was amalgamated with the Border Regiment. The museum has hosted two major exhibitions on the First World War: ‘War! 1914’ and ‘141 Days: The Battle of the Somme.’ A third, ‘From Front Line to White Lund’, which will focus upon Lancaster and Morecambe’s home front and munitions works, is in preparation.
MICHAEL HUGHES is Professor of Modern History at Lancaster University. He has published numerous books and articles on Russian History and Anglo-Russian relations. He has also written extensively on the role of the churches in international relations, and has worked with a range of organisations on questions relating to the role of conscientious objectors in the First World War and other conflicts. Michael Hughes is one of the editors of the multi-volume series ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution’ which is being published to mark the centenary of the 1917 Revolution. He has recently completed a biography of Randall Davidson who served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the First World War.