Neil Gregor is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton, where he has worked since 1994. He has published widely on the economic, social and cultural history of twentieth century Germany, including two prize-winning monographs with Yale University Press (1998; 2009) and, most recently, The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany with the University of Chicago Press (2025). Alongside his academic work he serves on the academic advisory boards of the Documentation Centre at the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the Leo Baeck Institute, London; he has also served on the academic advisory boards of the Wiener Holocaust Library, London, and the German Historical Institute London. For the society itself, Neil has served as co-editor of German History (2009-2015) and, together with Professor Len Scales, was founding co-editor of the society’s OUP book series ‘Studies in German History’.

Sebastian Gehrig is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sheffield. His research interests focus on the politics of law during the Cold War, the history of political dissent and militancy, and the emergence of the national security state. Sebastian's current major research project explores the history of treason in twentieth century Germany. 

Craig Griffiths is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and a co-founder and co-convenor of the Seminar Series in the History of Sexuality at the IHR in London. His book The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany was published with Oxford University Press in 2021 and won the Waterloo Centre for German Studies book prize. He is currently working on a book project on the queer history of human rights in the German-speaking world across the Twentieth Century.

Dr Caroline Sharples is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Roehampton, UK.  She specialises in twentieth century Germany history, specifically the history of Nazi Germany and representations of the Holocaust.  She is the author of West Germans and the Nazi Legacy (Routledge, 2012), Postwar Germany and the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor, with Olaf Jensen, of Britain and the Holocaust; Remembering and Representing War and Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Sharples was awarded her PhD in History by the University of Southampton in 2007 and has since taught a wide range of Modern European History modules at the Universities of Central Lancashire, Leicester, Liverpool and Sheffield and held a research fellowship at the University of Sussex, working on the current state of Holocaust education in England. She is an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, based in Leicester, and was a 2010 Fellow of the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Róisín joined the Open University in 2023 as Lecturer in Early Modern History. Following the completion of her PhD at the University of St Andrews in 2015, she taught at the University of Winchester and King’s College London. From 2018-2023 Róisín was a Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford. She has held research fellowships from the Institute of Historical Research, the Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, and the Society for Renaissance Studies.

Emily Steinhauer is an intellectual historian and Research Fellow in Modern History at the German Historical Institute London. She is interested in histories of exile and migration, as well as the production and transfer of knowledge. Her current work explores how a better understanding of ‘intellectual labour’ can provide new insights into women intellectuals and their contributions to 20th century sociology and social research in particular. 

Anna Ross is Senior Lecturer of Modern European History at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the 1848 revolutions, state-building, empire, and internationalisation. At present, she is writing about the internationalisation of territory after the First World War in the form of international zones.

Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern German History emeritus at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on German History from 1880 to 1980, with a special emphasis on the First World War, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich. He is currently completing, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Nazi Germany, and is finishing a monograph on German workers and the labour movement during the First World War for a book series published with J.H.W. Dietz Nachf. at Bonn, commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Tim Grady is Professor of Modern European History and also Director of the Culture and Society Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute (RKEI) at the University of Chester. The RKEI is an interdisciplinary institute that brings together over 200 researchers, providing a platform for collaborations, public events and external partnerships. Professor Grady is an international scholar of twentieth century British and German history, who has received major funding awards, published extensively in academic and public forums. He currently leads the MA History and teaches at all levels of the undergraduate programme.

Head of School of History at the University of St Andrews. Bridget's research focuses on the long-term impact of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations on German society and culture.

Charlie Knight is an Honorary Fellow at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, and a Research Fellow on the ISF funded project 'The Nature of German Jews: Environmental Identities in Transition, 1870-1945'. He has held fellowships at the Weidenfeld Institute, University of Sussex, and the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He completed his PhD entitled ‘German-Jewish Letters and the Holocaust, 1933-45’ at the University of Southampton in 2025. Charlie is author of numerous articles on German-Jewish and Holocaust history, and is the co-editor on a number of special issues and edited collections including Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases, and Reflections (Bloomsbury, 2026). He is a member of the Board of the Leo Baeck Institute London.