Robert E. Bieder is Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Indiana, USA. He is the author of many books and articles on North American natural history, folklore and ethnology.
Nicola Humble is Professor of English Literature at Roehampton University. She is the author of Culinary Pleasures: Cook Books and the Transformation of British Food, as well as Victorian Heroines: Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art.
Robert Irwin is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and the Middle East editor of the The Times Literary Supplement. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Nichola Fletcher is a member of the Guild of Food Writers and has written six books on food history and cooking. She won the Gourmet Voice Silver award and was shortlisted for The Guild of Food Writers awards for her book about the history of feasting. In 2008 she won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best single-subject cookbook.
David Robins is the author of Tarnished Vision: Crime and Conflict in the Inner City (1992).
Dick Pountain is a non-executive director of Dennis Publishing and a former reviews editor on Ink and Oz magazines.
Jill Bough is a Conjoint Academic in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. She has published articles about the history of the donkey in Australian Zoologist (2006) and the Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (2009).
Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is the author and editor of many books, including Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body (2001).
Juan Antonio Ramírez is Professor of History of Art at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and the author of several books on art, architecture and film, including Duchamp: Love and Death, even (Reaktion, 1998).
Paul Greenhalgh is Deputy Curator, Department of Ceramics and Glass, at the Victoria & Albert Museum.