Edited by Laurence Brockliss, University of Oxford, and Ritchie Robertson, University of Oxford

Laurence Brockliss was born in London and educated at the University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer in history at the University of Hull from 1974 to 1984. Since then he has been a tutor in history at Magdalen College Oxford and a lecturer, reader and professor in history at the University of Oxford. He works on the history of education, science and medicine in early-modern France and Britain and has a general interest in the history of European ideas. He is married with three children and four grandchildren.

Ritchie Robertson was born in Nairn, Scotland, and educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. He has held temporary teaching posts in Oxford and Cambridge, was Fellow and Tutor in German at St John's College, Oxford, from 1989 to 2010, and is now Taylor Professor of German and a Fellow of the Queen's College. He has held a Humbolddt Fellowship and been a visiting professor in Berlin. In 2004 he was elected to the British Academy. He is married with two stepchildren.

Laurence Brockliss, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Christopher Brooke, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
Kevin Hilliard, St Peter's College, University of Oxford
Marian Hobson, Queen Mary University of London
Michael Ignatieff, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Peter Kail, St Peter's College, University of Oxford
Ken Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, Pennsylvania
David Leopold, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Avi Lifschitz, University College London
Karen O'Brien, King's College London
Derek Offord, University of Bristol
T. J. Reed, University of Oxford
John Robertson, Clare College, University of Cambridge
Ritchie Robertson, Queen's College, University of Oxford
Alan Ryan, University of Oxford
Jeremy Waldron, University of Oxford, New York University