contributors

Gus Bambridge-Sutton is a freelance writer. He blogs at redguesthouse.co.uk. J S Barnes’s new novel, Dracula’s Child, an authentic sequel to Stoker’s original, will be published this month. Piers Brendon’s Churchill’s Bestiary was recently published in America under the title Churchill’s Menagerie. Michael Burleigh is Engelsberg Chair of History and Global Affairs at LSE IDEAS. He has recently finished a short book on populism and foreign policy and a major history of assassinations from Caesar to Khashoggi. Frances Cairncross is a former journalist on The Economist, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and Chair of the Court of HeriotWatt University. She is author of The Death of Distance. Davíd Carrasco is Neil L Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard University. He is editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. In 2004, he received the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle. Robert Chandler’s A Short Life of Pushkin is published by Pushkin Press. His translation of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad has just been published by Vintage Classics in paperback. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Ethan Croft is a journalist at The Economist. Anthony Cummins is a freelance writer. Alex Dean is senior editor at Prospect. Sophie Duncan is Fellow in English at Christ Church, Oxford. Her books include Shakespeare’s Women and the Fin de Siècle and Shakespeare’s Props: Memory & Cognition. Suzannah V Evans recently won the 2020 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment. Her second poetry pamphlet, Brightwork, is forthcoming from Guillemot Press in 2021. Caroline Finkel is author of Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire (1300-1923). Bradley Garrett is the author of Bunker: Building for the End Times, which was published last month by Allen Lane. Edith Hall’s latest book, A People’s History of Classics, was published earlier this year.

Tanya Harrod is completing an artisticpolitical study of the painter Ruskin Spear. Wendy Holden’s new novel, The Governess, was published by Welbeck last month. Thomas Kielinger was a long-time UK correspondent for the German national daily Die Welt. He has written biographies of Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill and Elizabeth I. Mia Levitin is a cultural and literary critic. The Future of Seduction will be published in November. Peter Marshall is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. His books include Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (2017). Candia McWilliam was born and lives in Scotland. Her books include the novels A Case of Knives and Debatable Land and a memoir, What to Look for in Winter. Keith Miller’s book on St Peter’s is published by Profile. Noonie Minogue is an artist, translator, critic and author of Nero: The Singing Emperor and Marcus Vamvakaris: The Man & the Bouzouki. Rana Mitter’s latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard University Press). Wendy Moore’s Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital is published by Atlantic. Sarah Moss teaches creative writing at University College Dublin. Summerwater, her new novel, is published by Picador. Malcolm Murfett is Professor of History in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Patricia T O’Conner has written several books about language, including Woe Is I and, most recently, Origins of the Specious, written with her husband, Stewart Kellerman. They blog at grammarphobia.com.

Lauren Alex O’Hagan is a research associate in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University. Her current project explores the book inscriptions of working-class Edwardians. Bijan Omrani edits the Asian Affairs Journal. Tomiwa Owolade is a writer based in London. Philip Parker is author of The Northmen’s Fury, The Empire Stops Here and History of Britain in Maps. John Phipps is a writer living in London. Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Levi Roach is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter. Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium will be published next year. Timothy W Ryback is director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He is coeditor of the forthcoming book Contested Histories in Public Spaces. Dominic Sandbrook’s most recent book, Who Dares Wins, is out in paperback this month. Nicholas Shakespeare is the author of seven novels, most recently The Sandpit. Richard Smyth’s latest book, An Indifference of Birds, was published earlier this year. Frances Spalding is currently writing The Real and the Romantic for Thames & Hudson. Daniel Todman is Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary University of London and author of Britain’s War 1942-47. Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. He is currently writing a book on popular attitudes to capitalism. Catriona Ward is the author of awardwinning novels Rawblood and Little Eve. Her new gothic thriller, The Last House on Needless Street, will be published next year. David Wheatley is a judge on this year’s Forward Poetry Prizes. David Willetts is president of the Resolution Foundation. He was Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014 and is the author of several books, including The Pinch and A University Education.

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