Lucy D. Curzonis Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Alabama, USA. She is the author ofVisual Culture and Mass Observation: Depicting Everyday Lives(2017), which was awarded the Historians of British Art Book Prize for a single-authored book with a subject after 1800. With Ben Jones, she co-editedThe Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation: 1930s to the Present(2025). She has previously published work on contemporary queer portrait painting and photography, British women war artists, the Ashington Group and Humphrey Spender.Benjamin Jonesteaches Modern British History at the University of East Anglia, UK. His research focuses on classed experiences and identities from the mid-twentieth century to the present with a particular emphasis on life histories, social research and social memory. He is the author ofThe Working Class in Mid-Twentieth Century England: Community, Identity and Social Memory(2012) and his latest research on football casuals, fanzines and the emotional politics of rave and acid house was published inModern British HistoryandContemporary British Historyin 2023 and 2024. He is currently drawing on Mass Observation material for a book manuscript entitled"Middle England" and its "Enemies Within": Class, Race and Feeling in Thatcher's Britain.