Autor/-in: Emelyne Godfrey

Dr Emelyne Godfrey studied the culture of self-defence in the Victorian and Edwardian eras and helped to popularise the subject of 'jujut-suffragettes' through articles for the TLS, BBC History Magazine and History Today, appearing on The One Show with Gyles Brandreth. She lectures widely and has previously written on crime and self-defence in Victorian literature for Palgrave Macmillan. She is chairman of the H.G. Wells Society and on the committee of the Metropolitan Police History Society. She lives in London.