Author type: Non-fiction

Jonathan Glover is a distinguished British philosopher known for his studies on ethics. For thirty years, Jonathan taught at New College, Oxford, and since 1988 he has taught at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King’s College London. His books include Causing Death and Saving Lives (Penguin, 1977) and Choosing Children: Genes, Disability and… Read more »

James Hamilton is a curator, writer and lecturer. He has written widely on nineteenth and twentieth century art, with a particular interest in artists whose work crosses the boundaries which tend to separate art, literature and science. He was University Curator and Honorary Reader at the University of Birmingham from 1992 until retirement in 2013,… Read more »

Robert is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and European History, with a particular focus on the fall-out from the French Revolution, everyday life and resistance in the Second World War and 1968. His Marianne in Chains: In Search of Occupied France, published in 2002… Read more »

Barbara is a classicist and cultural historian. She is currently Professor of Classics at Durham University, where her research focuses on ancient Greek literature and its readers – both ancient and modern. She is a regular broadcaster for BBC arts programmes, and reviews for The London Review of Books and The Times Higher Education Supplement. Her marvellous and… Read more »

Sir Lawrence Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997. In June 2009 he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into… Read more »

David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965 and, for his sins, inherited Tottenham Hotspur from his father. In 2006, he published The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football (Penguin), which has established itself as the definitive social, political and sporting history of the global game. In 2014, he published The Game of Our Lives:… Read more »

Simon Hall is Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research interests lie in the post-war social and political history of the United States – with a particular focus on the civil rights and Black Power movements; the student radicalism of the 1960s; and… Read more »

Edmund was the Economist‘s Washington, Paris and Berlin correspondent and is a regular reviewer. His Liberalism: The Life of an Idea was published by Princeton in 2014. The second in his planned political trilogy – Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition – was published in 2020, also by Princeton University Press. The Economist called it ‘an epic… Read more »

Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. She is the author of The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici (2016), which was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2017 and was one of the Evening Standard‘s Best Books of 2016. Her first… Read more »

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford.  He is also Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King’s College, Cambridge. He works on the history and politics of the Mediterranean, Russia, the… Read more »