Ruth Davidson is an Institute of Historical Research Fellow 2024/5 at the Institute of Historical Research, London. She has published widely on gender, politics, voluntary action, and social policy. She is currently completing her first monograph, Women's Welfare Activism: Everyday Power and Politics in Twentieth-century Britain (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).


Farah Hussain is a political science PhD researcher at Queen Mary, University of London. Farah's research focuses on the experience of Muslim women in local politics, especially the Labour Party. Alongside her research, she works in Parliament and was previously a local councillor in London 2014-2022.


Lyndsey Jenkins is associate professor and tutorial fellow in history at Mansfield College Oxford. She is a historian of women, politics, and activism in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a particular interest in feminism and socialism. She has held teaching positions at Kings College, London and the University of Reading, as well as various Oxford colleges.


Anna Muggeridge is a historian of women's activism in twentieth-century Britain. She held a variety of teaching posts at the University of Worcester before securing a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2024. She is currently completing her first monograph, on women and local government in the interwar years, and undertaking her FLF, entitled 'Voices of Motherhood: A History of Maternal Activism from the Women's Co-Operative Guild to Pregnant then Screwed'.