Lisa J. Hackett is a cultural historian at the University of New England, New South Wales. With Jo Coghlan, she is co-author of The British Royals in Popular Culture (2025) and co-editor of the two-volume The Barbie Phenomenon (2025–6).
Jo Coghlan is a political sociologist at the University of New England, New South Wales. She is the co-author of Breaking Television: How Breaking Bad Redefined Morality, Genre and the Antihero (2026).
Piers Baker-Bates is Visiting Research Associate at the Open University. His books include Sebastiano del Piombo and the World of Spanish Rome (2016) and Artistic Exchanges between Spain and Italy, 1516–1621 (2024).
Jacqueline A. Nowakowski is an archaeologist and educator based in Cornwall. She is a contributing author to Archaeology and Landscape at the Land’s End (2016) and Tintagel Revisited: New Excavations at a Royal Citadel (2026).
Oliver Ready is Lecturer in Russian at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. He is a prize-winning translator and the author of Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013 (2017).
Christiana Payne is Professor Emerita of History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. Her books include John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter (2010) and In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825–1876 (2025).
Gregory Forth is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. His books include Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid (2022) and A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society (2019).
Miranda Aldhouse-Green is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University and a former president of the Prehistoric Society. She has published more than twenty books on Iron Age and Romano-British religion and ritual, including Sacred Britannia (2023) and Bog Bodies Uncovered (2016), winner of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Felicia Holton Book Award.
Peter Laufer is a former award-winning correspondent for NBC News and holds the inaugural James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon. His books include Up Against the Wall (2020) and We Are All Americans (2026).