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Richard Price has his degrees from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is the author of many articles and papers in British social and labor history. His books include An Imperial War and the British Working Class 1899-1902 (London, 1972); Masters, Unions and Men: Work Control and the Rise of Labour in the Building Trades, 1830-1914 (Cambridge, 1980); Labour in British Society 1780-1980: An Interpretive History (London, 1986); British Society 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change (Cambridge, 1999). He is currently completing a book titled Encounters of Empire: the British and the Xhosa on the Eastern Cape Frontier 1820-1860 , which is about the creation of the British Empire in southern Africa.

Julie Anne Taddeo is a visiting assistant professor of British history and director of the undergraduate internship program. She received her Ph.D. in History at the University of Rochester in 1996. She has taught history and women's studies at Temple University in PA (1996-2002) and at University of California, Berkeley, where she also was the Assistant Director of the Center for British Studies (2002-2005). Her publications include Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity (2002) and articles on British modernism, gender, and sexuality. Her current projects examine the relationship between identity, gender, and class in post-WWII British popular culture. Her teaching specialties include Victorian culture, the history of sexuality, Modern British and European social and cultural history, and women's/gender studies.

Sabrina Alcorn Baron holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has published on censorship, book collectors, the book trade, and news writing, as well as the history of reading and culture of publication in early-seventeenth-century England. Baron co-edited (with Brendan Dooley) The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe (2001). Also in 2001 she was guest curator for the Folger Shakespeare Library Exhibition, The Reader Revealed , and compiled and edited the exhibition catalog of the same name. She wrote 13 biographies for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Baron was a Fulbright scholar in 1997-8 and has been awarded other fellowships, most recently at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies at the Library of Congress.

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