SEAN BRADY Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His research interest focuses on gender, sexuality, politics and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland. His publications include
Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861 – 1913 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 & 2009), and
What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World, co-edited with John H. Arnold (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He is convening editor for Palgrave Macmillan's series,
Genders and Sexualities in History.