National Service Life Stories Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain

Peter Gurney, Professor of British Social History, University of Essex,Joel Morley, Professor of British History, University of Bristol,Matthew Grant, Reader in History, University of Essex

Peter Gurney is Professor of British Social History at the University of Essex, where he has taught since 1999.

Matthew Grant has taught history at the University of Essex since 2013, having previously worked at the Universities of Sheffield, Manchester, and Teesside.

Joel Morley specialises in the social and cultural history of war in twentieth-century Britain, and oral history. He was awarded a PhD in History at Queen Mary University of London, and has since taught at QMUL and the University of Birmingham, and held post-doctoral research positions at the University of Essex and the University of Bristol.