Acknowledgements
We would like to extend our thanks to the director of the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies Morten Kyndrup and the fellows for allowing us to hold the meeting at the institute and their generous financial assistance. We should especially like to thank Pia Leth Andersen and Lena Bering for all of their amazing assistance in helping to organise and deliver the 57th SSHB Symposium. The meeting could not have taken place without them. We would also like to thank all of the presenters who gave papers and posters and the participants who helped to make the symposium such a great success. We should also like to thank Taylor & Francis for their help in producing this special issue and their financial contribution to the symposium’s opening reception. Finally we would like to thank Rachel Deevey and Noel Cameron for their help and support throughout the editorial process.
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