The Editors
SABINE FREITAG was Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London until 2002 and works now at the University of Cologne. She is co-editor of vol. 1 and vol. 2 of British Envoys to Germany, 1816-1866. Her latest publications include Mord und andere Kleinigkeiten (2001) and Refuges of Revolution. Political exiles in Mid-Victorian London (2003).
TORSTEN RIOTTE was Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London and is now wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He is author of a number of articles on British and European history and a revised version of his Ph.D. thesis has been published in German translation as Hannover in der britischen Politik (2005). He is co-editor of The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837 (2006) and British Envoys to Germany, 1816–1866, iii. 1848–1850 (2006).
HAGEN SCHULZE (Free University Berlin) was Director of the GHIL until 2006. Some of his more recent publications are: Nation-Building in Central Europe (1987); Is there a German History? (1988); The Course of German Nationalism. From Frederick the Great to Bismarck 1763-1867 (2nd ed. 1995); States, Nations and Nationalism. From the Middle Ages to the Present (1996); Phönix Europa. Die Moderne von 1740 bis heute (1998); Germany. A New History (2nd ed. 2001); and Deutsche Erinnerungsorte (3 vols, 2001).
PETER WENDE was Director of the German Historical Institute in London until 2000. He has co-edited vol. 1 and vol. 2 of British Envoys to Germany, 1816-1866 and has written extensively on 19th century German and English History.