Seth Alexander Thévoz is a political, cultural, and social historian of Europe from 1800 on. He holds degrees in history and politics from the Universities of Cambridge, London, and Warwick. His doctoral thesis, supervised by the History of Parliament Trust, was on the political impact of London gentlemen’s clubs in the nineteenth century, and his current research is on the history of British legislators’ outside financial interests from World War II to the present. He has first-hand experience of having worked with all political parties at Westminster over the last decade; and in his spare time he is Honorary Librarian of London’s National Liberal Club, where he curates a significant collection of rare political material covering the last two hundred years.