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Alison Adam | Professor of Information Systems at Salford University | Artificial Intelligence |
Peter Adamson | Reader in Philosophy at King's College London | Averroes |
Jon Agar | Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge | Artificial Intelligence |
Jim Al | Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Surrey | Rutherford |
Jim Al-Khalili | Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Surrey | Graviton,Higgs Boson |
Fay Bound Alberti | Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester | Heart |
Igor Aleksander | Professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Imperial College, University of London | Artificial Intelligence |
Sally Alexander | Professor of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London | Psychoanalysis |
Dennis Almeida | Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Exeter University and the Open University | Indian Maths |
Michael Alpert | Emeritus Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Spain at the University of Westminster | Spanish Inquisition |
Richard Alston | Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
Rosemary Ashton | Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London | Faust |
Nigel Aston | Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester | Jesuits |
Peter Atkins | Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University | Second Law of Thermodynamics |
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David Bagchi | Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought at the University of Hull | Diet of Worms |
Julian Baggini | Editor, The Philosopher’s Magazine and co-editor of New British Philosophy: The Interviews | Pragmatism,Beauty,Mind/Body Problem,Examined Life |
Sarah Barber | Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University | Toleration |
Emma Barker | Lecturer in Art History at The Open University | Artist |
Tim Barrett | Professor of East Asian History at SOAS | Needham Question |
Caroline Barron | Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London | Peasants' Revolt |
John Barrow | Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University | Speed of Light |
John D. Barrow | Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge | Theories of Everything |
June Barrow-Green | Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open University | Poincare Conjecture |
Jonathan Bate | Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick | Christopher Marlowe,Later Romantics,Nature |
Mary Beard | Reader in Classics, Cambridge University and author of The Parthenon. | Oath,Roman Britain,Cultural Imperialism |
Lucy Beckett | Author of Richard Wagner: Parsifal | Richard Wagner |
Catherine Belsey | Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University | Originality |
Marina Benjamin | journalist and author of Living at the End of the World (Picador, 1999) | Apocalypse |
Jim Bennett | Director of the Museum of Science and Fellow of Linacre College at the University of Oxford | History of Optics,Renaissance Maths |
Amira Bennison | Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge | Averroes,Abbasid Caliphs |
Mike Benton | Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol | KT Boundary |
Carol Berkin | Professor of History at The City University of New York | George Washington and the American Revolution |
Celeste-Marie Bernier | Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Nottingham | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Sanjoy Bhattacharya | Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL | Search for Immunisation |
Dinah Birch | Fellow and tutor in English at Trinity College, Oxford. | John Ruskin,Sensation,Victorian Realism |
Jeremy Black | Professor of History, University of Exeter and author of The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century | Great Exhibition,Peterloo Massacre,Art of War,Grand Tour |
Tim Blanning | Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge | Goethe,Terror,Artist |
Peter de Bolla | Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge | Sublime |
Colin Bonwick | Professor Emeritus in American History at Keele University | George Washington and the American Revolution |
Huw Bowen | Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester | Tea,East India Co |
Malcolm Bowie | Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford | Proust,Psychoanalysis |
Rachel Bowlby | Professor of English at the University of York | Hysteria |
Nicola Bown | Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London | Faeries |
David Bradley | Professor of Tropical Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Disease |
Annabel Brett | Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, editor with Quentin Skinner of Liberty, Right and Nature (Cambridge University Press). | Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan' ,Duty,Freedom |
Alexander Broadie | Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow | Scottish Enlightenment |
Mike Broers | Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall | Terror |
John Brooke | Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University. | Chance and Design in Evolution |
Michelle Brown | Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library | Venerable Bede,Lindisfarne Gospels |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University | Speed of Light |
Ardis Butterfield | Reader in English at University College London | Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Jenni Calder | Author of There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The myth and reality of the American Wild West | American West |
Gemma Calvert | Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bath | Perception and the Senses |
David Cannadine | Director of the University of London’s Institute of Historical Research | Aristocracy |
John Carey | Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University | Heaven,Modernist Utopias,The Fall,Epic,John Milton |
Paul Cartledge | Professor of Greek History at the University of Cambridge | Greek Comedy,Oath,Heroism |
Nancy Cartwright | Professor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California | Karl Popper |
Roger Cashmore | former Research Director at CERN and now Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford | Graviton,Higgs Boson |
Justin Champion | Reader in the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway College, University of London | Toleration,Apocalypse |
Tim Champion | Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton | Archaeology and Imperialism |
Edward Chaney | Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Institute and author of A Traveller’s Companion to Florence | Grand Tour |
Allan Chapman | Historian of Science at the History Faculty at Oxford University | Astronomy and Empire |
Chloe Chard | Literary historian and author of Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour | Grand Tour |
Phil Charles | Professor of Astronomy at Southampton University | Supernovas |
Michael Clanchy | Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research | Abelard and Heloise |
Margaret Clegg | Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Anthropology at University College London | Human Evolution |
Linda Colley | School Professor of History, London School of Economics | East India Co,Slavery and empire,Cultural Imperialism |
Stefan Collini | Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge | John Ruskin |
Sarah Colvin | Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh | Goethe |
Steve Connor | Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London | Modernist Utopias |
Martin Conway | Professor of Psychology at Durham University | Dreams,Memory |
Helen Cooper | Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge | Pastoral Literature,Geoffrey Chaucer |
Richard Corfield | Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University | Rise of the Mammals,Cambrian Explosion,Origins of Life,Ageing the Earth |
Heather Couper | Space expert, co-author of Is Anybody Out There? | ET |
Carolin Crawford | Royal Society Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge | Galaxies,Asteroids,Dark Energy,Planets |
Roger Crisp | Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford. | Virtue |
Kate Crosby | Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, SOAS | Budhhism |
Roger Crowley | author and historian | Siege of Constantinople |
Chris Cullen | Director of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University | Needham Question,China: The Warring States Period |
Christopher Cullen | Director of the Needham Research Institute | Han Synthesis |
Barry Cunliffe | Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford University and author of Facing The Ocean | Celts |
Andrew Cunningham | Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the History of Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University | Anatomy |
Serafina Cuomo | Reader in the History of Science at Imperial College London | Archimedes |
Anne Curry | Professor of Medieval History at Southampton University | Agincourt |
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis | Curator of Ancient Iranian Coins in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum | Zoroastrianism |
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Gillian Darley | Architectural historian and biographer of John Soane | Architecture and power |
Richard Davenport-Hines | Historian and author of The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, Phoenix Press | History of drugs |
Laurence Davies | Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire | Heart of Darkness |
Norman Davies | Professor Emeritus, University of London, author of Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City | Bohemia |
Philip Davis | is Reader in English Literature at the University of Liverpool | Victorian Realism |
Richard Dawkins | Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University | Altruism,Origins of Life |
Mahinda Deagallee | Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Bath Spa University College and a Buddhist Monk from the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka. | Budhhism |
John Deathridge | King Edward the Seventh Professor of Music, Kings College London | Originality,Richard Wagner |
Tom Devine | Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen | Scottish Enlightenment |
Simon Ditchfield | Reader in History at the University of York | Jesuits |
Simon Dixon | Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds | Catherine the Great |
Phillip Dodd | Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts | Cultural Imperialism |
Fay Dowker | Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary, University of London | Schrödinger's Cat |
Hilary Downes | Professor of Geochemistry at Birkbeck, University of London | Vulcanology |
Katherine Duncan-Jones | Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty of Oxford University | Christopher Marlowe |
Alastair Dunn | author of The Peasants’ Revolt - England’s Failed Revolution of 1381 | Peasants' Revolt |
John Dupr | Professor of Philosophy of Science at Exeter University and director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society | Microbiology,Altruism |
Nadja Durbach | Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah | Search for Immunisation |
Osman Durrani | Professor of German at the University of Kent at Canterbury | Faust |
Chris Dye | epidemiologist with the World Health Organisation | Search for Immunisation,Disease |
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Catharine Edwards | Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, London University | Aeneid,Roman Britain |
John Edwards | Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford | Spanish Inquisition |
Karen Edwards | Lecturer in English at Exeter University | Nature,Epic |
Harold Ellis | Clinical Anatomist, School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London | Anatomy |
Clive Emsley | Professor of History at the Open University | Great Exhibition,Peterloo Massacre |
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Patricia Fara | Lecturer on the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University | Alexander von Humboldt,Electrickery,Rutherford,scientist in history |
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | Professorial Research Fellow, Queen Mary College London | Aristocracy,Slavery and empire |
Orlando Figes | Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London | Assassination of Tsar Alexander II |
Irving Finkel | Curator in the Department of the Ancient Near East at the British Museum | Babylon |
Evelyn Fishburn | Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London | Jorge Luis Borges |
Raymond Flood | Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at Kellogg College, Oxford | Negative numbers |
Sarah Foot | Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Sheffield | Alfred and the Battle of Edington,Venerable Bede |
Peter Forshaw | Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London | Merlin,Alchemy,Renaissance Magic |
Jane Francis | Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds | Rise of the Mammals,KT Boundary,Cambrian Explosion |
Robert Fraser | Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University | Proust |
Christopher Frayling | Rector of the Royal College of Art, author of Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone | American West |
Miranda Fricker | Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London | Altruism,Pragmatism,Virtue |
Karin Friedrich | Lecturer in History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London | Bohemia |
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Richard Gameson | Reader in Medieval History at Kent University | Alfred and the Battle of Edington,Venerable Bede,Lindisfarne Gospels |
Mary Garrison | Lecturer in History at the University of York | Carolingian Renaissance |
Malcolm Gaskill | Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge | Witchcraft |
Henry Gee | Senior Editor at Nature | Ageing the Earth |
Andrew George | Professor of Babylonian at the School of Oriental and African Studies | Babylon |
Val Gibson | particle physicist from the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge | Theories of Everything |
Sheridan Gilley | Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham | Oxford Movement |
Anne Glover | Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Aberdeen University | Microbiology |
Simon Goldhill | Professor in Greek Literature and Culture at King’s College, Cambridge | Aeschylus' Oresteia,Odyssey,Battle of Thermopylae |
Simon Goodwin | Researcher in Astronomy, Cardiff University | ET |
Monica Grady | Head of Petrology and Meteoritics at the Natural History Museum | Mars,Carbon,Asteroids,Second Law of Thermodynamics |
Elizabeth Graham | Senior Lecturer in Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London | Aztecs |
Helen Graham | Professor of Spanish History at Royal Holloway, University of London | Spanish Civil War |
Kim Graham | Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit | Memory |
John Gray | Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics | Human Nature |
Anthony Grayling | Reader in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London | John Stuart Mill,Pragmatism,Karl Marx,Abelard and Heloise,Mind/Body Problem,Heroism,Duty,Examined Life |
Miranda Aldhouse Green | Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales and authorof Dying for the Gods. | Celts |
Brian Greene | Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University | Theories of Everything |
Susan Greenfield | Senior Research Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford University | Chaos Theory |
Mark Greengrass | Professor of History at the University of Sheffield | St Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
Richard Gregory | Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Bristol University | Perception and the Senses |
John Gribbin | Visiting Fellow in Astronomy, University of Sussex, author of Science: A History 1543-2001 | Galaxies,Second Law of Thermodynamics,scientist in history |
Miriam Griffin | Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford | Cynicism |
Steven Gunn | Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University | Field of the Cloth of Gold |
John Guy | Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge | Field of the Cloth of Gold |
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Thomas Hahn | Professor of English Literature at the University of Rochester, New York | Robin Hood |
Joanna Haigh | Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London | James Clerk Maxwell |
John Haldane | Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews | Angels |
Catherine Hall | Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London, | Slavery and empire |
Edith Hall | Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham | Greek Comedy,Aeschylus' Oresteia,Aeneid,Odyssey,Battle of Thermopylae |
Richard Hamblyn | writer and author of The Invention of Clouds (Picador, 2002) | Meteorology |
Robert Hampson | Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London | Heart of Darkness |
Keith Hanley | Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University | John Ruskin |
Philip Hardie | Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford | Aeneid |
Anne Hardy | Reader in the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre at University College London | Blood,Disease |
Christina Hardyment | Social historian and journalist | Marriage |
Peter Harman | Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University and editor of The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell | James Clerk Maxwell |
Richard Harries | Bishop of Oxford | Redemption |
Janet Hartley | Professor of International History at the London School of Economics | Catherine the Great |
Peter Harvey | Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland | Budhhism |
Judith Hawley | Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London | Encyclopedie,Samuel Johnson and His Circle,Scriblerus Club,Empiricism |
Ronald Hayman | writer and biographer of Jung | Carl Gustav Jung |
Thomas Healy | Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck University of London | Rhetoric,Youth,Artist |
Tom Healy | Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London | Aeschylus' Oresteia,Paganism in the Renaissance |
John Heilbron | Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley | Magnetism |
Judith Herrin | Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London | Siege of Constantinople |
John Hines | Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University | Alfred and the Battle of Edington,Norse Gods |
Angie Hobbs | Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick | Friendship,Cynicism,Beauty,Stoicism,Rhetoric,Heroism,Duty,Art of War |
Hermione Hobhouse | Architectural Historian and Writer | Great Exhibition |
Tom Holland | historian | Roman Republic,Battle of Thermopylae |
Charles Hope | Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at the University of London | Paganism in the Renaissance |
Norman Housley | Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leicester | Schism |
Sir Michael Howard | Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford | Art of War |
Christina Howells | Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College | Jean-Paul Sartre |
Sarah Hudspith | Lecturer in Russian, University of Leeds | Tolstoy |
Dame Olwen Hufton | Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford | Jesuits |
Ann Hughes | Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Keele | Seventeenth Century Print Culture |
Michael Hunter | Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London | Royal Society |
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Barry Ife | Cervantes Professor Emeritus at King's College London | Don Quixote |
Colin Imber | formerly Reader in Turkish at Manchester University | Siege of Constantinople |
Matthew Innes | Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London | Carolingian Renaissance |
Robert Graham Irwin | Senior Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | Abbasid Caliphs |
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Peter Jackson | Professor of Medieval History at Keele University | Genghis Khan |
Sue James | Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London | Mind/Body Problem |
Susan James | Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London | Beauty |
Vladimir Jankovic | Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Manchester University | Meteorology |
Annie Janowitz | Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary, University of London | Sublime |
Lisa Jardine | Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College, University of London and Honorary Fellow of King's College Cambridge. | Royal Society,Magnetism,Machiavelli and the Italian City States,Zero,Cryptography,John Milton |
Mike Jay | Historian and author of Emperors of Dreams, Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, Dedalus Ltd | History of drugs |
Neil Johnson | University Lecturer in Physics at Oxford University | Chaos Theory |
Gareth Stedman Jones | Professor of Political Science at Cambridge University | Karl Marx |
Hugh Jones | planet hunter and Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University | Planets |
Michael Jones | medieval historian and writer | Agincourt |
Peter Jones | Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham | Lunar Society |
Steve Jones | Professor of Genetics in the Galton Laboratory at University College London | Human Evolution,Rise of the Mammals,Lamarck and Natural Selection |
Susan Jones | Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford | Heart of Darkness |
George Gheverghese Joseph | Honorary Reader in Mathematics Education at Manchester University | Indian Maths |
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Brett Kahr | Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London | Carl Gustav Jung,Hysteria |
Robert Kaplan | co-founder of The Math Circle at Harvard University | Renaissance Maths,Pi,Zero,Infinity |
Lauren Kassell | Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge | Alchemy |
Chandrika Kaul | Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of St Andrews | Mughal Empire |
Margaret Kean | Tutor in English and Dame Helen Gardner Fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University | History of Hell |
John Keane | Professor of Politics, University of Westminster, author of a forthcoming history of democracy | Anarchism,Freedom |
Simon Kelley | Head of Department in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University | KT Boundary |
Catriona Kelly | Reader in Russian, Oxford University | Assassination of Tsar Alexander II,Tolstoy |
Hugh N. Kennedy | Professor of History at the University of St Andrews | Abbasid Caliphs |
Robert Kennicutt | Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge | Galaxies |
Anthony Kenny | philosopher and former Master of Balliol College, Oxford | Greyfriars and Blackfriars |
Sir Anthony Kenny | philosopher and former Master of Balliol College, Oxford | Averroes |
Ruth Kinna | Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University | Anarchism |
Sandy Knapp | botanist at the Natural History Museum | Lamarck and Natural Selection,Chance and Design in Evolution |
Alan Knight | Professor of the History of Latin America at Oxford University | Aztecs |
Frances Knight | Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Wales, Lampeter | Oxford Movement |
Stephen Knight | Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University | Merlin,Robin Hood |
Mike Kopelman | Professor of Neuropsychiatry at King's College London and St Thomas’ Hospital | Memory |
Efraín Kristal | Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles | Jorge Luis Borges |
Harry Kroto | Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University | Carbon |
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George Lane | Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies | Genghis Khan |
Carolyne Larrington | Tutor in Medieval English at St John’s College, Oxford | Geoffrey Chaucer,Norse Gods,Holy Grail |
Hermione Lee | Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford | Bohemianism |
Clare Lees | Professor of Medieval Literature at King's College London | Lindisfarne Gospels |
Kathleen Lennon | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull | Relativism |
Tony Lentin | Professor of History at the Open University | Catherine the Great |
Laurence Lerner | former Professor of English at the University of Sussex | Pastoral Literature |
Janna Levin | Advanced Fellow in Theoretical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge | Supernovas |
Henrietta Leyser | medieval historian and Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford | Greyfriars and Blackfriars,Abelard and Heloise,Schism |
Dominic Lieven | Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics | Assassination of Tsar Alexander II |
Kristen Lippincott | Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich | Astronomy and Empire,Calendar |
Vivienne Lo | Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine | China: The Warring States Period |
Adrian Locke | co-curator of the Aztecs exhibition currently at the Royal Academy of Arts | Aztecs |
Nick Lowe | Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London | Greek Comedy |
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Diarmaid MacCulloch | Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University | Diet of Worms,St Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
Neil MacGregor | Director of the British Museum | History of Hell |
Allan Macinnes | Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at Aberdeen University | Jacobite Rebellion |
Laura Marcus | Professor of English at the University of Sussex | Modernist Utopias |
Peter Marshall | philosopher and historian | Anarchism |
Marie McGinn | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York | Wittgenstein |
Bill McGuire | Benfield Professor of Geophysical Hazards at University College London | Vulcanology |
Jim McLaverty | Professor of English at Keele University | Alexander Pope - Alexander Pope,Samuel Johnson and His Circle |
Frank Mclynn | Visiting Professor in the Department of Literature, University of Strathclyde, author of a new book Wagon’s West - The Epic Story of America’s Overland Trails | American West |
Sarah Meer | Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Andrew Mendelsohn | Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College, University of London | Microbiology |
Charlotte Methuen | Lecturer in Reformation History at the University of Oxford | Diet of Worms |
Carol Michaelson | Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum | Han Synthesis,China: The Warring States Period |
Simon Middleton | Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia | George Washington and the American Revolution |
Alan Millard | Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at the University of Liverpool | Alphabet |
Maria Misra | Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Keble College, Oxford | East India Co |
Juliet Mitchell | Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge | Hysteria |
Steven Mithen | Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. | Imagination |
Alistair Moffat | Writer and Historian and author of The Sea Kingdoms - The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland | Celts |
John Moles | Professor of Latin at the University of Newcastle | Cynicism |
Ray Monk | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton | Wittgenstein |
David Moore | Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham | Perception and the Senses |
Simon Conway Morris | Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at Cambridge University | Cambrian Explosion,Lamarck and Natural Selection,Chance and Design in Evolution |
Iwan Morus | Lecturer in the History of Science at Queen's University Belfast | Speed of Light,Electrickery |
Stephen Mulhall | Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oxford University | Redemption |
John Mullan | Senior Lecturer in English at University College London | Alexander Pope - Alexander Pope,Friendship,Samuel Johnson and His Circle,Scriblerus Club,Politeness,Sensation |
Paul Murdin | Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge | Planets,Supernovas |
Alexander Murray | medieval historian and Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford | Spanish Inquisition,Greyfriars and Blackfriars |
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Stana Nenadic | Senior Lecturer in Social History at Edinburgh University | Jacobite Rebellion |
Virginia Nicholson | author | Bohemianism |
Mehri Niknam | Executive Director of the Maimonides Foundation, a joint Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Foundation in London. | Cordoba and Muslim Spain |
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Anthony O | Weston Professor of Philosophy at Buckingham University | Karl Popper |
Benedict O | Principal Lecturer in French at the University of the West of England and Secretary of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies | Jean-Paul Sartre |
Heather O | Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford University | Norse Gods |
Karen O | Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Warwick | Scottish Enlightenment |
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Ruth Padel | poet and author of In and Out of the Mind: Tragic Images of Self and Body | The Soul |
Martin Palmer | Theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture. | History of Hell,Heaven,Angels,The Fall,Devil,Apocalypse,Cordoba and Muslim Spain,The Soul |
David Papineau | Professor of the Philosophy of Science, Kings College, London | Chaos Theory |
Richard Parkinson | Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum | Archaeology and Imperialism |
Linda Partridge | Biology and Biotechnology Research Council Professor at University College London | Origins of Life |
Frederik Pedersen | Lecturer in History, Aberdeen University | Marriage |
Hugh Pennington | Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Aberdeen. | scientist in history |
Roger Penrose | Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University | Schrödinger's Cat |
Sir Roger Penrose | Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Maths at Oxford University | Dark Energy |
Adam Phillips | Author of Equals and general editor of the new Penguin translations of Freud | Psychoanalysis |
George Phillips | Honorary Reader in Mathematics at St Andrews | Archimedes |
Colin Pillinger | Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University and leader of the Beagle 2 expedition to Mars | Mars |
Steven Pinker | Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT | Human Nature |
Fred Piper | Director of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London | Cryptography |
Murray Pittock | Professor of English Literature at the University of Strathclyde | Empiricism,Jacobite Rebellion |
Sadie Plant | Author of Writing on Drugs, Faber and Faber | History of drugs |
Griselda Pollock | Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds | The Fall |
Robert Poole | Reader in History at St Martin’s College Lancaster | Calendar |
Paul Preston | Principe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary Spanish History at the London School of Economics | Spanish Civil War |
Stephen Pumfrey | Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster | Royal Society,Magnetism,Alchemy |
Diane Purkiss | Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford | Faeries |
Lyn Pykett | Professor of English and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth | Sensation |
Robert Pynsent | Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature, University College London | Bohemia |
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Jonathan R | philosopher | Relativism,Stoicism,Jean-Paul Sartre,Empiricism,Originality |
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran | Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego | Dreams |
Joad Raymond | Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia | Seventeenth Century Print Culture |
Sarah Rees | Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Newcastle | Infinity |
Sir Martin Rees | Astronomer Royal and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at Cambridge University | Dark Energy |
Valery Rees | Renaissance historian and a translator of Ficino’s letters | Heaven,Angels,Renaissance Magic |
Janet Radcliffe Richards | Philosopher of Science and Reader in Bioethics, University College, London | John Stuart Mill,Human Nature,Examined Life |
Ruth Richardson | Historian, and author of Death, Dissection and the Destitute, Phoenix Press | Anatomy |
Sarah Richardson | Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick | Peterloo Massacre |
Jonathan Riley-Smith | Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University | Holy Grail |
Graham Robb | writer and biographer of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud | Bohemianism |
Penny Roberts | Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick | Field of the Cloth of Gold,St Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
Eleanor Robson | historian of Ancient Iraq and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford | Archaeology and Imperialism,Pi,Babylon,Alphabet |
Colva Roney-Dougal | Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews | Indian Maths,Negative numbers |
Lyndal Roper | Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, University of Oxford and | Witchcraft |
Jacqueline Rose | Professor of English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London | Proust |
Charlotte Rouech | historian of late antiquity at Kings College London | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
Sheila Rowan | Reader in Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow | Graviton |
Alison Rowlands | Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex | Witchcraft,Devil |
Miri Rubin | Professor of European History at Queen Mary, University of London | Peasants' Revolt,Blood |
Valerie Rumbold | Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University | Alexander Pope - Alexander Pope |
Alan Ryan | Professor of Politics at Oxford University | John Stuart Mill |
Hazel Rymer | Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University | Ageing the Earth |
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Andrew Samuels | Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex and a Jungian analyst in clinical practice | Carl Gustav Jung |
Julie Sanders | Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham | Pastoral Literature |
Marcus du Sautoy | Professor of Mathematics and Fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford | Poincare Conjecture,Mathematics and Music,Prime Numbers |
Jonathan Sawday | Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde | Heart,Renaissance Magic,Blood |
Simon Schaffer | Reader in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge | History of Optics,Astronomy and Empire,Electrickery,Rutherford,James Clerk Maxwell,Lunar Society |
Roger Scruton | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham | Nature |
Jim Secord | Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project | Alexander von Humboldt |
David Sedley | Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge | Stoicism |
Steve Self | Professor of Vulcanology at the Open University | Vulcanology |
Kevin Sharpe | Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London | Seventeenth Century Print Culture |
Jonathan Shepard | co-editor of Byzantine Diplomacy | Schism |
Simon Singh | science writer | Cryptography |
Quentin Skinner | Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge | Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan' ,Machiavelli and the Italian City States |
Simon Skinner | Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford | Oxford Movement |
Barry Smith | Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London | Relativism,Wittgenstein |
Emma J. Smith | Lecturer in English at Oxford University | Christopher Marlowe |
Julia Smith | Edwards Professor of Medieval History at Glasgow University | Carolingian Renaissance |
Mark Solms | Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town | Dreams |
Alan Sommerstein | Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham | Oath |
Richard Sorabji | Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College | The Soul |
Janet Soskice | Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology, Cambridge University | Redemption,Marriage |
Rebecca Spang | Lecturer in Modern History at University College London | Terror |
Fred Spoor | Professor of Evolutionary Anatomy at University College London | Human Evolution |
Gavin Stamp | Senior Lecturer, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art | Architecture and power |
Naomi Standen | Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University | Genghis Khan |
Jackie Stedall | Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at The Queen's College, Oxford | Archimedes,Prime Numbers,Renaissance Maths |
Catherine Steel | Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. | Roman Republic |
Roel Sterckx | Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge | Han Synthesis |
Ian Stewart | Professor of Mathematics, Warwick University | Poincare Conjecture,Negative numbers,Pi,Zero,Infinity,ET |
Galen Strawson | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading | Virtue |
Susan Stronge | Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Mughal Empire |
Susan Stuart | Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Glasgow. | Imagination |
Sanjay Subrahmanyam | Professor of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford | Mughal Empire |
Tony Sudbery | Professor of Mathematics, University of York | Schrödinger's Cat |
Ceri Sullivan | Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor | Rhetoric |
Rosemary Sweet | Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester | Aristocracy |
T | ||
Michael Tanner | Philosopher and author of Wagner and Nietzsche | Richard Wagner |
Oliver Taplin | Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford | Odyssey,Epic |
Ruth Tatlow | Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Stockholm | Mathematics and Music |
Liba Taub | Director of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Cambridge University | Meteorology |
Ken Teo | Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Cambridge University | Carbon |
Deborah Thom | Lecturer in History at Robinson College, Cambridge | Youth |
Rosalind Thomas | Professor of Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London | Alphabet |
Adrian Tinniswood | Architectural historian | Architecture and power |
Janet Todd | Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow | Sublime |
U | ||
Jenny Uglow | Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick | Lunar Society |
V | ||
Farrokh Vajifdar | Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a life-long student of Zoroastrianism | Zoroastrianism |
Mark Vernon | Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Syracuse University and London Metropolitan University | Friendship |
Amanda Vickery | Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London | Politeness,Tea |
Mary Vincent | Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Sheffield University | Spanish Civil War |
W | ||
Jennifer Wallace | Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge | Later Romantics |
Marcus Walsh | Kenneth Allott Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool | Scriblerus Club |
James Walvin | Professor of History at the University of York | Tea |
David Wark | Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Higgs Boson |
Caroline Warman | Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford | Encyclopedie |
Peter Watson | Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University | Calendar |
John Watts | Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford | Agincourt |
Clive Webb | Reader in American History at the University of Sussex | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Evelyn Welch | Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London | Paganism in the Renaissance,Machiavelli and the Italian City States |
Francis Wheen | journalist and author of a biography of Karl Marx | Karl Marx |
Jane Whetnall | Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London | Don Quixote |
Tim Whitmarsh | Lecturer in Hellenistic Literature at Exeter University | Youth |
Alan Williams | Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester | Zoroastrianism |
Bernard Williams | Professor of Philosophy, University of California, author of the forthcoming Truth and Truthfulness (Princeton Press, October 2002) | Freedom |
Edwin Williamson | Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford | Jorge Luis Borges,Don Quixote |
A.N. Wilson | is a novelist, biographer and author of The Victorians | Victorian Realism |
Andrew Norman Wilson | Novelist, journalist and biographer of Tolstoy | Tolstoy |
Jason Wilson | Professor of Latin American Literature at University College London | Alexander von Humboldt |
Robin Wilson | Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University and Gresham Professor of Geometry | Mathematics and Music,Prime Numbers |
W. Daniel Wilson | Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London | Goethe |
Tim Winter | a convert to Islam and lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University. | Cordoba and Muslim Spain |
Emily Winterburn | Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum | History of Optics |
David Womersley | Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford and editor of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin, 2000) | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
Frances Wood | Head of Chinese Collections at the British Library | Needham Question |
Juliette Wood | Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales in Cardiff | Faeries,Merlin,Faust,Robin Hood,Holy Grail |
Robert Woof | Director of the Wordsworth Trust | Later Romantics |
Greg Woolf | Professor of Ancient History at St Andrews University | Roman Republic,Roman Britain |
David Wootton | Professor of Intellectual History at Queen Mary, University of London | Encyclopedie,Heart,Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan' ,Politeness,Toleration,Devil |
Blair Worden | Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sussex | John Milton |
John Worrall | Professor of Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics | Karl Popper |
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John Zarnecki | Professor of Space Science at the Open University | Mars,Asteroids |
Semir Zeki | Professor of Neurobiology at the University of London | Imagination |
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Dennis Almeida | Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Exeter University and the Open University | Indian Mathematics |
Nigel Aston | Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester | Jesuits |
Tim Barrett | Professor of East Asian History at SOAS | Needham Question |
Caroline Barron | Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London | Peasants' Revolt |
John Barrow | Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University | Speed of Light |
June Barrow-Green | Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open University | Poincare Conjecture |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University | Speed of Light |
Melyvn Bragg | Writer and Broadcaster. Presenter of In Our Time | All |
Nancy Cartwright | Professor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California | Karl Popper |
Roger Crowley | author and historian | Siege of Constantinople |
Chris Cullen | Director of the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge | Needham Question |
Serafina Cuomo | Reader in the History of Science at Imperial College London | Archimedes |
Laurence Davies | Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire | Heart of Darkness |
Richard Dawkins | evolutionary biologist and the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University | Altruism |
Simon Ditchfield | Reader in History at the University of York | Jesuits |
Alastair Dunn | author of The Peasants’ Revolt - England’s Failed Revolution of 1381 | Peasants' Revolt |
John Dupré | Professor of Philosophy of Science at Exeter University and director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society | Altruism |
Evelyn Fishburn | Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London | Bourges |
Niall FitzGerald KBE | Director of the British Museum | Hell |
Miranda Fricker | Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London | Altruism |
George Gheverghese Joseph | Honorary Reader in Mathematics Education at Manchester University | Indian Mathematics |
Monica Grady | Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University | Mars |
Robert Hampson | Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London | Heart of Darkness |
Judith Hawley | Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London | Encyclopedie |
Judith Herrin | Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London | Siege of Constantinople |
Dame Olwen Hufton | Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford | Jesuits |
Colin Imber | formerly Reader in Turkish at Manchester University | Siege of Constantinople |
Peter Jackson | Professor of Medieval History at Keele University | Ghengis Khan |
Susan Jones | Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford | Heart of Darkness |
Margaret Kean | Tutor in English and Dame Helen Gardner Fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University | Hell |
John Keane | Professor of Politics at Westminster University | Anarchism |
Ruth Kinna | Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University | Anarchism |
Efraín Kristal | Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles | Bourges |
George Lane | Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies | Ghengis Khan |
Peter Marshall | philosopher and historian | Anarchism |
Jim McLaverty | Professor of English at Keele University | Alexander Pope |
Iwan Morus | Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth | Speed of Light |
John Mullan | Professor of English at University College London | Alexander Pope |
Anthony O'Hear | Weston Professor of Philosophy at Buckingham University | Karl Popper |
Martin Palmer | director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture | Hell |
George Phillips | Honorary Reader in Mathematics at St Andrews | Archimedes |
Colin Pillinger | Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University and leader of the Beagle 2 expedition to Mars | Mars |
Colva Roney-Dougal | Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews | Indian Mathematics |
Miri Rubin | Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London | Peasants' Revolt |
Valerie Rumbold | Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University | Alexander Pope |
Marcus du Sautoy | Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford | Poincare Conjecture |
Naomi Standen | Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University | Ghengis Khan |
Jackie Stedall | Junior Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at Queen's College, Oxford | Archimedes |
Ian Stewart | Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick | Poincare Conjecture |
Caroline Warman | Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford | Encyclopedie |
Edwin Williamson | Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford University | Bourges |
Frances Wood | Head of Chinese Collections at the British Library | Needham Question |
David Wootton | Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York | Encyclopedie |
John Worrall | Professor of Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics | Karl Popper |
John Zarnecki | Professor of Space Science at the Open University and a team leader on the ExoMars mission | Mars |
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[edit]Archimedes - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments (Latest edition)
- Jackie Stedall, Serafina Cuomo, George Phillips
The Jesuits - The Schoolmasters of Europe(Religion)
- Nigel Aston, Simon Ditchfield, Dame Olwen Hufton
Name | Credentials | Contributions |
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Nigel Aston | Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester | Jesuits |
Serafina Cuomo | Reader in the History of Science at Imperial College London | Archimedes |
Simon Ditchfield | Reader in History at the University of York | Jesuits |
Dame Olwen Hufton | Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford | Jesuits |
George Phillips | Honorary Reader in Mathematics at St Andrews | Archimedes |
Jackie Stedall | Junior Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at Queen's College, Oxford | Archimedes |