contributors

David Abulafia is the author of The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (Allen Lane), which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2020. John Adamson’s books include The Princely Courts of Europe, 1500–1750 and The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I. David Armitage is Lloyd C Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent books are Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017) and, as co-editor, A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (2020). Julian Baggini’s latest book is The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human & Living Well. Simon Baker is a freelance writer. Piers Brendon is writing a personal memoir of Tom Sharpe. Fergus Butler-Gallie’s Priests de la Résistance! is out in paperback. Frances Cairncross is a former journalist for The Economist, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and Chair of the Court of Heriot-Watt University. Richard Canning’s most recent book is Brigid Brophy: Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist (co-edited with Gerri Kimber). Clare Clark’s seventh novel, Trespass, will be published by Virago in August. Tom Conaghan is publisher of Scratch Books. Peter Conrad’s The Mysteries of Cinema: Movies & Imagination (Thames & Hudson) was published last year. Jude Cook’s latest novel was Jacob’s Advice. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Ethan Croft works at The Economist. Charles Darwent’s most recent book is Josef Albers: Life & Work (Thames & Hudson). Richard Davenport-Hines’s essays on Oxford conservatism, Emblems of Extinction, will be published later this year. Michael Delgado works at Literary Review. Patricia Fara is an emeritus fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and winner of the 2022 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics.

Andrew Gailey has written a number of works on Irish history. His latest book, Portrait of a Muse, is a study of Frances Horner, the muse of Edward Burne-Jones. Sarah Harper is Clore Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, and author of How Population Change will Transform our World (OUP, 2019). Her new book, Ageing Societies: Risk and Resilience, will be published later this year by Taylor Francis. Martin Johnes is Professor of History at Swansea University and author of Wales Since 1939 (Manchester University Press). Joanna Kavenna’s most recent novel is Zed. Jonathan Keates is working on a biography of the composer Gaetano Donizetti. Alexander Larman is books editor at The Spectator World. His most recent book, The Crown in Crisis (W&N), was a revisionist account of the 1936 abdication crisis. Elizabeth Lowry’s Dark Water was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2019. Her novel about Thomas Hardy, The Chosen, will be published later this year. John Maier is a freelance writer. Thomas Marks is an associate fellow of the Warburg Institute. Cathy Mason is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is currently working on a project exploring Iris Murdoch’s ethics. Geoff Mills is a writer, editor, course designer and performer. He holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Birmingham University. Noonie Minogue is an artist, translator and author of Nero the Singing Emperor and Markos Vamvakaris: The Man & the Bouzouki. Philip Parker’s books includeThe Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World andThe Empire Stops Here: A Journey around the Frontiers of the Roman World (both Jonathan Cape).

Francesca Peacock is deputy literary editor at The Critic, and a freelance writer. Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Richard V Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Dream Hoarders. Levi Roach is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter. His next book, Empires of the Normans, will be published by John Murray in June. Stephen Romer is a lecturer in French at Brasenose College, Oxford. His bilingual collection of poems, Le Fauteuil jaune, was published last year. Last Autumn he was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Daisy Sainsbury is the author of Contemporary French Poetry (Legenda, 2021). She is currently working on her first novel. Anthony Sattin’s latest book, Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World, will be published by John Murray in May. Guy Stevenson’s first book, Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture, was published in 2020, and he is currently working on a second, about the culture wars and the 1960s. Gillian Tindall’s latest book, The Pulse Glass, about time and chance survival, is available now in paperback (Virago). Edward Vallance is writing a new history of the trial and execution of Charles I very slowly. Judith Vidal-Hall was formerly editor of Index on Censorship. Richard Vinen teaches history at King’s College London. Melanie White is a freelance writer and editor, and publisher of Shooter Literary Magazine. Philip Womack’s latest novel for the young, Wildlord, is out now. William Wootten’s poetry pamphlet Looking at the Horsemen (New Walk) and his annotated selection of de la Mare’s poems, Reading Walter de la Mare (Faber), have both been recently published. Roderic Wye is a retired diplomat who specialised in China throughout his career.

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