Dr Jonathan Moss, Associate Professor of Politics, University of Sussex

Jonathan is a political historian of modern Britain. His first book focused on the relationship between feminism, workplace activism, and trade unionism during the years 1968-1985. He is also co-author (with Nick Clarke, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker) of The Good Politician: Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. The book takes a longer view of contemporary concerns about political dissaffection by focusing on the voices of ‘ordinary’ citizens found in the Mass Observation Archive from the 1940s to the present. 

His latest book is The Politics of Feeling in Brexit Britain: Stories from the Mass Observation Project, (co-authored with Emily Robinson and Jake Watts, Manchester University Press, 2024), which explores popular understandings of the role of emotion and feelings in political debates about Brexit.

Professor Nick Clarke, Professor of Political Geography, Unversity of Southampton

Nick Clarke is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Southampton. His research and teaching focus on governance and citizenship. His publications include Globalising Responsibility (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), The Good Politician (OUP, 2018), and Everyday Life in the Covid-19 Pandemic (Bloomsbury, 2024).

Dr Alex Hill, Research Fellow in Politics, University of Sussex

Alex is a social and political historian of modern Britain. His PhD investigated the politics of ‘ordinary’ people’s perceptions of the future from 1940 to 1979. He is interested in the history of the vernacular, the development of non-elite political languages over time. These languages often defy the easy categorisation of ‘left’ or ‘right’; nonetheless, they prove very important for people making sense of their lives. He explored these ideas in a journal article forModern British History, ‘Brains, Breeding, and Knowingness: The Politics of Meritocracy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain’ (2024).