Biographical note

Chris Cook is a former Senior Research Officer and Head of the Modern Archives Survey at the London School of Economics and Poltiical Science. He has combined the careers of academic historian and distinguished compiler of reference works. His many publications include the Dictionary of Historical Terms (1998), the European Political Facts series and the standard Short History of the Liberal Party (2010). With John Stevenson he has co-edited the Routledge Historical Companions as well as co-authoring The Slump (2009), a major study of Britain in the 1930s. John Stevenson is a former Reader and Fellow of Worcester College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on British, European and World history, including works on both political and social history. His publications include A History of Europe (2005), The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914 (2005, with Chris Cook), A History of British Elections since 1688 (2014, with Chris Cook), and William Cobbett: Romanticism and Enlightenment (2015, edited with J. Grande). He is currently editing a volume of English historical documents for the period 1914–57.