Neville Kirk is Emeritus Professor of Labour and Social History. He has researched and taught at universities in Britain, the USA, Canada and Australia. He has published widely in the fields of modern British history and the comparative and transnational histories of workers and labour movements in Britain, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. His most recent book is entitled, Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross (Liverpool University Press, 2017). Kirk is editor of Liverpool University Press's series, Studies in Labour History and a member of the executive of the UK Society for the Study of Labour History. He is currently working on the theme of crisis with respect to the political and social crises gripping Britain since the financial crash of 2007-8.