Samantha Wolstencroft is Senior Lecturer in British Political History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and lectures on modern British politics, war and political violence, British foreign policy since 1918, and the politicisation of popular music in 1980s Britain. Prior to this, she taught economic history at the University of Manchester, and has lectured at a number of other British universities.She is currently writing a book onpopular music and protest culture in Britain during the 1980s.