Clare Midgley is Research Professor in History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and was President of the International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH) between 2010 and 2015. Her publications include Feminism and Empire (2007), Gender and Imperialism (1998) and Women Against Slavery (1992/1995). She is currently completing a new book on Liberal Religion and the Woman Question, which explores collaboration between Indian, British and American reformers.

Alison Twells is Reader in History at Sheffield Hallam University. Her publications include The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850 (2009). She has extensive experience of working with public and community-based historians and has written resources for school history.

Julie Carlier is the research coordinator of the Ghent Centre for Global Studies, an interdisciplinary research network at Ghent University in Belgium, where she also teaches on the transnational history of feminism. Between 2010 and 2015 she was a board member of the IFRWH. Her publications include contributions to Women's History Review and to the edited volume Gender History in a Transnational Perspective: Biographies, Networks, Gender Orders (2014).