William Doyle is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Bristol, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989, third edition 2018).
Rik Smits is a linguist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His books include The Puzzle of Left-handedness (Reaktion, 2011) and Dawn: The Origins of Language and the Modern Human Mind (2016).
Jeremy Myerson is a design writer and Professor Emeritus in the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. He co-founded Worktech with Philip Ross in 2003 and in 2016 they created the Worktech Academy, an online knowledge platform and network on the future of work and the workplace.
Philip Ross is a futurist, commentator and advisor specializing on the impact of emerging technology on people and their ways of working. He founded Worktech in 2003 with Jeremy Myerson and in 2016 they created the Worktech Academy, an online knowledge platform and network on the future of work and the workplace.
Alex Harvey is a producer and director of programmes including Panorama and The Late Show for the BBC. His later films include The Lives of Animals (2002) and Enter the Jungle (2014). Based in Los Angeles, he regularly writes on literature, film and music for London Review of Books and LA Review of Books.
Ritchie Robertson is a Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford, and Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. His books include Friedrich Nietzsche (Reaktion Books, 2022) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024).
Colin Burgess is the author or editor of almost forty books on the military and spaceflight, including Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America’s First Astronauts (2011) and Soviets in Space (Reaktion, 2022).
Robert Black is Professor Emeritus of Renaissance History at the University of Leeds. His books include Machiavelli (2013), a Times Literary Supplement ‘Book of the Year’.
Christopher S. Celenza is James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include Machiavelli: A Portrait (2015) and The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance (2018).
Colleen Taylor Sen lives in Chicago, and is the author of Reaktion’s Curry: A Global History and Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India, named one of the best food books of the year by Vogue and the Smithsonian Magazine.