Peter Stansky is the honorary curator emeritus of the British Labour Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. He is also the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University, where he also served as Chair of the Department of History (1975-82), Director of the Stanford Humanities Center (2000-01), Chair of the Faculty Senate (1977-78), and Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences (1985-88). Stansky's scholarship addresses many of the main themes of modern British history: the dissipation of the Liberal and growth of the Labour parties; the rise of aesthetic modernism (and the central role played by the Bloomsbury Group); the impact of two world wars and the Spanish Civil War on British intellectuals; and postwar manifestations of an "austere," "swinging," and "cool" Britain.