Ian Miller is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Ulster, and the author of several books.

Janine Rogers is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada.

Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture at Newcastle University. He has written extensively on architectural history and theory. His books include Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2002) and, with Andrew Law, Tudoresque: In Pursuit of the Ideal Home (Reaktion, 2011).

Stephen Fender was born in San Francisco and is Honorary Professor of English at University College London. His previous books include 50 Facts that should Change the USA and 50 Facts You Need to Know: USA: A Tour through the Real America (both 2008).

Tara Moore is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the English Professional Writing and First Year Writing Program at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Victorian Christmas in Print (2009).

Brian Yarvin is a food photographer and author who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His three most recent books are A World of Noodles, The Ploughman’s Lunch and the Miser’s Feast and The Too Many Tomatoes Cookbook.

Adam Dodd is contributing co-editor of Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History (2013) and is currently Sessional Lecturer at the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia.

Melissa E. Feldman is a Seattle-based independent curator and writer who has contributed to Art in America, Frieze, Third Text, and Aperture, among other publications. She is the author of Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th Century Vision (1999).

Gregory Votolato is a Lecturer at the Victoria & Albert Museum and teaches on the Critical and Historical Studies Vehicle Design Programme at the Royal College of Art, London. He is the author of American Design in the Twentieth Century (1998), Transport Design: A Travel History (Reaktion, 2007) and Ship (Reaktion, 2011).

Heather Delancey Hunwick is a food consultant and researcher. Born in Canada, she now lives in Sydney, Australia.