Lucy Delap is a lecturer in Modern British History and a Director of History and Policy. She works on gender, labour and religion, and her current research focuses on masculinities and political activism in the late twentieth century. Her book The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the early twentieth century (Cambridge University Press, 2007) won the 2008 Women's History Network Prize, and explores the intellectual history of feminism, set within Anglo-American transatlantic exchanges of the early twentieth century. Her monograph, Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Other recent publications include The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain from 1800 (Palgrave 2009), Feminist Media History (Palgrave 2010), and Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth Century Britain (Palgrave, 2013).