Beate Althammer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Trier, Germany. She is author of Das Bismarckreich 1871-1890 (2009) and co-editor with Christina Gerstenmayer of Bettler und Vaganten in der Neuzeit (1500-1933): eine kommentierte Quellenedition (2013).
Andreas Gestrich is Director of the German Historical Institute London, UK. He is co-editor with Lutz Raphael and Herbert Uerlings of Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe and the Mediterranean World from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day (2009).
Jens Grundler is Research Assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart, Germany. He recently published Armut und Wahnsinn. 'Arme Irre' und ihre Familien im Spannungsfeld von Psychiatrie und Armenfursorge in Glasgow, 1875-1921 (2013).
