The Citizen Past and Present

Andrew Brown has taught medieval history at Massey University since 2010. Before then he was a senior lecturer at Edinburgh University. His main research interests are focused on religion, ceremony and society in late medieval Europe. His books include Popular Piety in Late Medieval England (OUP, 1995) and Civic Ceremony and Religion in Medieval Bruges (CUP, 2011). He is writing and co-editing a collection of essays on medieval urban cultures, and a new, multi-authored history of Bruges, 900-1550, to be published by CUP.

John Griffiths is a senior lecturer in history at Massey University. He is the author of Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities and several articles in internationally recognised journals, which examine urban and imperial citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His career has included a period acting as a tutor for the Workers Educational Association. He is currently working on a project Beyond Swinging London, which examines how far London life of the 1960s was replicated in the provincial context.