Christopher Plumb is a cultural historian and his first book was The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-century London (2015).
Samuel Shaw is an artist, writer and art historian. He teaches at the University of Birmingham.
Alison Green is an art historian, critic and curator and Course Leader of ma Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, London.
Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at Cambridge University. His previous books include Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (2002) and The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination (2014). You can find out more about Matthew via his website and blog.
Priscilla Mary Işın is a food historian based in Istanbul, Turkey. Her publications include A King’s Confectioner in the Orient (2003) and Sherbet and Spice (2013), which traces the history of Turkish confectionery and desserts.
Philip Matyszak teaches ancient history for Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education. He has written extensively on the ancient world, including Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day (2008), Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories (2010) and most recently Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation (2017).
Christopher Pinney is Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London. His publications include Camera Indica (1997), Photos of the Gods (2004) and Photography and Anthropology (2011), all published by Reaktion.
Markman Ellis is Professor of Eighteenth-century Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.
Richard Coulton is a lecturer in the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London.
Matthew Mauger is a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London.