Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He prevously held chairs at the Universities of Sydney, Kent at Canterbury, and Sheffield. He is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He is the author of numerous books and articles on sixteenth-century Britain, including The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (OUP, 1990) and Elizabethan Essays (1994).

Simon Adams, University of Strathclyde
Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway
John Guy, University of St Andrews
Diarmaid MacCulloch, St Cross, Oxford University
J. A. Sharpe, University of York
Greg Walker, University of Leicester

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