contributors
Oliver Balch is the author of Viva South America!, India Rising and Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders. Eleanor Barraclough is Associate Professor in Medieval History and Literature at Durham University and the author of Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages & the Old Norse Sagas (OUP). David Blow was assistant director of the British Institute of Persian Studies and worked for the BBC. His books include Persia through Writers’ Eyes and Shah Abbas. He is currently writing a history of Iran. Piers Brendon’s book Churchill’s Bestiary was recently published in America under the title Churchill’s Menagerie. Paul Broks is a clinical neuropsychologist turned writer. His most recent book is The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars. Shaun Bythell is the owner and manager of The Bookshop in Wigtown. His latest book, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, is published this month. Frances Cairncross is a former journalist at The Economist, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and Chair of the Court of HeriotWatt University. She is author of The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution is Changing our Lives. Robert Colls’s This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760–1960 was published in August (OUP). Cressida Connolly has just finished a new novel. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Michael Cox is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) and founding director of LSE IDEAS. Andrew Crumey’s latest book is The Great Chain of Unbeing. Anthony Cummins is a freelance writer. Richard Davenport-Hines is a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, currently selfisolated in the Massif Central. Michael Delgado works at Literary Review.
David Gelber is managing editor of The Court Historian. Laura Hackett has an MSt from Oxford in English. She is currently working in communications. James Hamilton, a biographer of Gainsborough and Turner, is writing a life of Constable. He was brought up in Derby. Tom Holland is the author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. Kathryn Hughes’s last book was about Victorian bodies. She is now writing about Victorian cats. Peter Jones urges readers to support the appeal of the charity Classics for All (https://classicsforall.org.uk/). Jonathan Keates is working on a biography of the composer Gaetano Donizetti. Stephen Knight’s most recent collection is Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge (CB Editions). Lucy Lethbridge’s next book, Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, will be published next year. Dmitri Levitin studies the history of knowledge. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Mia Levitin is a cultural and literary critic. She is the author of The Future of Seduction, published this month. Margarette Lincoln’s London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World’s Greatest City will be published next year. Keith Lowe is the author of Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History & Ourselves (William Collins). John Maier is a freelance writer.
Alberto Manguel is the director of the new Centre for the Study of the History of Reading in Lisbon. Robert Mayhew is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Bristol. He is currently working on attitudes to migrants in the English Enlightenment. Josie Mitchell is assistant editor at Granta magazine. Gill Partington is a writer and academic, researching strange books and unconventional reading practices. Currently based at the University of Exeter, she is busy compiling the index to a nonexistent book (www.indexofevidence.org). John Phipps is a freelance writer. Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call to Home. Tanjil Rashid works as a freelance producer for the BBC. Dan Richards’s latest book is Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth (Canongate). Stephen Romer’s anthology French Decadent Tales, a collection of fin-de-siècle short stories, was published in 2013. His collection Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems came out in 2017. He lectures in French at Brasenose College, Oxford. Peter Rose is editor of Australian Book Review and the author of several books of poetry. Hannah Rosefield teaches at Harvard. Farzana Shaikh is the author of Making Sense of Pakistan. Sam Sheldon lives in London. Michael Tanner is a philosopher at Cambridge and a Wagnerian music critic. D J Taylor is working away at Orwell. Adrian Tinniswood’s The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science is published by Head of Zeus. Michael White is a former lobby correspondent. Kate Wiles is senior editor at History Today.
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