David Welsh is a retired railway worker, TUC tutor and part-time lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of All in a Day’s Work: Working Lives and Trade Unions in Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945- 1995 (2015) and Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf (2010). He is also the editor of Fortress Britain: Working Lives and Trade Unions in World War II (2005).