June Edmunds is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Her research background is in ethnicity, nationalism and politics; professionalism; and generations and gender. She has also published The Left and Israel (2000) and various articles in journals including Twentieth Century British History, Politics, Ethnicities and Social Science and Medicine. She is currently editing Generations, Consciousness, Narrative and Politics with Bryan S. Turner. Bryan S. Turner, previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, returned to Britain in 1998 to take up the Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is the founding editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and the editor of a new journal, Journal of Classical Sociology. He has published widely on issues relating to medical sociology, sociology of religion and sociological theory. He has recently published a book entitled Classical Sociology and has co-edited a volume entitled Politics in Contemporary Social Theory with Anthony Elliott (2001). His current research projects are concerned with post-war generations and cultural change.