I am a historian of the political economy of modern Europe and empire, with a particular focus on Britain. In research and in teaching I strive to uncover connections between the everyday, the domestic, the intimate, and the global processes that shape the world for all of us, using sources in English, French and German. My current book project, Family, Nation, Empire: Council Housing and the Imperial Political Economy of Modern Britain, is a history of how Britain’s distinctive form of public housing, council housing, was developed and managed according to imperial imperatives. I ask what happened to the people who called council housing home over the long twentieth century, following how they have fared as that empire disintegrated. Originally from Australia, I hold a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and have lived in the United Kingdom, France, and the USA.