Penelope J. CorfieldPenelope J. Corfield is Professor Emeritus of History at Royal Holloway, University of London; Visiting Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Member of the Academia Europaea/ Academy of Europe; and President of the International Society fr Eighteenth-Century Studies (2019- the present). Her publications address British social, cultural and urban history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as general theories of time and history. She gained her own research experience at the Universities of Oxford and London (LSE); she has enjoyed supervising many MA and PhD students; and she welcomes the internationalization of scholarship. Read More Read Less