Since 2011, Margit van der Steen has been working at Huygens Institute as managing director of the national Political History Research School (OPG). In 2024 she became treasurer to the Association for Political History. 

Her research and publications are in the fields of political history, biography and gender issues. 

Recent publications include ‘Housewives in politics: Local pioneers in the Netherlands after the enfranchisement‘ Journal of Modern European History 18:3 (2020) 264-268; The Ideal of Parliament in Europe since 1800 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2019) edited with R. Aerts, et al.

Lauren Lauret is assistant professor in Dutch History at Leiden University. Between 2022 and 2024 she was a Dutch Research Council Rubicon post-doctoral fellow at University College London. She is the secretary of the APH.

Her research focuses on how the political elite (re)claimed power after experiencing disruption, with a particular focus on the impact of colonialism on Dutch and British political practice.

Recent publications include ‘No Emancipation without Compensation: Slave Owners’ Petitions and the End of Slavery in the Netherlands, c. 1833-1873‘ BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review (2024) 1-24; Serving the chain? De Nederlandsche Bank and the last decades of slavery, 1814-1863 (Leiden University Press 2023) with K. Fatah-Black and J. van den Tol; ‘Four Founding Fathers on the Road: New Government Design in the United States and the Netherlands, 1776-1815’ Revue Française d’Études Américaines 173:4 (2022) 78-96, with D. Alkemade.

Jon Lawrence is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Exeter. He works on British social, political and cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Between 2018-2023 he was a Co-I on the large, interdisciplinary UKRI/AHRC project Living with Machines based at the Turing Institute and British Library which seeks to transform our ability to study the history of modern Britain at scale.

Recent publications include Bias and representativeness in digitized newspaper collections: Introducing the environmental scan Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38:1 (2023) 1-22, with K. Beelen, et al.; Me, Me, Me? The Search for Community in Post-war England (Oxford University Press 2019);  ‘Inventing the “traditional working class”: a re-analysis of interview notes from Young and Willmott’s Family and Kinship in East London‘ The Historical Journal 59:2 (2016) 567-593.

Mathieu Fulla is a Faculty member at the Center for History at Sciences Po. His main research areas are the history of the European Left in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the history of the state, and the history of capitalism and its “financialization” from the 1970s onwards.

Recent publications include ‘The Neoliberal Turn that Never Was: Breaking with the Standard Narrative of Mitterrand’s tournant de la rigueur’ Contemporary European history 33 (2024) 763-784; European socialists and the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2020) edited with M. Lazar. He is also co-editor of the French journal Parlement(s). Revue d’histoire politique.

Silke Mende is a contemporary historian. From October 2019 to March 2021, she was deputy director at Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) in Berlin. Since April 2021 she is professor for modern and contemporary history (19th-21st century) at the University of Münster. She continues to be an associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch.

Her work focuses on German, French and European political history from the 19th century to the present day. Her research considers language and language policy as a political-cultural instrument and situates it amidst the complex interplay between the French nation-state, its empire, and the “international” arena. Her current research project deals with the European history of democracy and parliamentarism in the last third of the 20th century. Additional research interests include the history of representation, social movements and protest, as well as New Imperial History.

Recent publications include Ordnung durch Sprache: Francophonie zwischen Nationalstaat, Imperium und internationaler Politik, 1860–1960 (München: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020); ‘“Enemies at the Gate”: The West German Greens and Their Arrival at the Bundestag—Between Old Ideals and New Challenges’ German politics and society 33 (2015) 66-79.

Johanna Rainio-Niemi is Associate Professor in Political History at the University of Helsinki.

She is currently Co-PI in several research projects, e.g.: WelKnowHow: Compromise-building in a Welfare State: State Committees in Finland and Sweden as Inclusive Institutions; WelKnowHow: State Committees Institution in Finland and Sweden: A Case for Inclusive Democracy and Good Quality Policy Preparation?

Recent publications include ‘Neutrality Law in A Comparative Perspective: Austria, Switzerland, Finland‘ The Defence Horizon Journal (2023) with P. Hilpold et al.; ‘Social cohesion through policy coordination: The state, interests and institutions in Austria and Finland after 1945′, in: Ch. LIoyd, M. Hannikainen (ed.), Social Cohesion and Welfare States : From Fragmentation to Social Peace (Abingdon: Routledge 2022) 128-160.

Jaroslav Valkoun is an assistant professor of general history at the Department of Historical Sciences, University of West Bohemia and the Department of Global History, Charles University, Prague.

His research interests include the history of the British Empire and the British Commonwealth of Nations in the 19^th and the 20^th century, and the history British Imperialism and Colonialism in Africa, particularly Egypt and the Sudan.

Recent publications include ‘Accepting Dominion Status as a Way of Reconciliation of British-Irish Disputes?’ Britain and the world 14 (2021) 1-21; Great Britain, the Dominions and the Transformation of the British Empire, 1907-1931: The Road to the Statute of Westminster (New York, NY: Routledge 2021).