Anna Marie Roos is Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln. Her previous books include Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters: The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century (2018) and The Salt of the Earth: Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650-1750 (2007).
Simon Franklin is Emeritus Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Russian Graphosphere, 1450–1850 (2019) and co-editor of The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature (2024).
Richard Wendorf was previously Professor of English and of Art History at Northwestern University, as well as Director of Harvard’s Houghton Library, the Boston Athenaeum and the American Museum and Gardens, Bath. He is the author of the award-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (1996).
Maria Taroutina is Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University. She is the author of The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival (2018), which was awarded the 2019 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies.
Joanne Paul is Honorary Associate Professor in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. She has published extensively on the life and work of Thomas More, including Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England (2025).
Jessica Keating is Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History at Carleton College, Minnesota. She is the author of Animating Empire: Automata, The Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World (2018).
Biancamaria Fontana is Emeritus Professor of the History of Political Ideas at the University of Lausanne. Her books include Montaigne’s Politics (2008) and Germaine de Staël (2016).
Charlotte Bigg is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris. She has published widely on the visual and material cultures of science from the late eighteenth century to now.
Peter Bond is a lifelong space and astronomy enthusiast. He was previously Space Science Advisor/Press Officer for the Royal Astronomical Society and a consultant and writer for the European Space Agency. He is the author of fourteen books, including Rosetta: The Remarkable Story of Europe’s Comet Explorer (2020) and Solar Surveyors (2022).