BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers take to stage

The full list of 2014 New Generation Thinkers, as announced by the BBC, is as follows:

Will Abberley (University of Oxford) is exploring how “natural deception” complicated the scientific facts for Alfred Russel Wallace and his contemporaries.

Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield) is looking at how international politics might take the rights of animals into consideration.

Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary University of London) is researching how Americans turned consumerism into an act of good citizenship.

Tom Charlton (University of Stirling) is working on the 17th-century printer John Twyn, executed for publishing a seditious tract.

Sophie Coulombeau (University of York) is studying personal naming and identity in England.

Daisy Hay (University of Exeter) is writing a biography of Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli.

Naomi Paxton (University of Manchester) is examining the suffrage campaign and the Actresses’ Franchise League.

Preti Taneja (Jesus College, Cambridge University) is analysing what it means to rewrite Shakespeare for the 21st century.

Tiffany Watt-Smith (Queen Mary University of London) is conducting research on the cultural history of our compulsion to imitate each other’s expressions and gestures.

Alun Withey (University of Exeter)’s work on the medical world of early modern England includes a special focus on the cultural history of the beard.