KATHRYN BEDFORD is a history PhD student whose dissertation was on Kentish history, with a focus on Canterbury. She is passionate about local history and about Kent, where she is proud to have been ...

Catherine Lorigan has a BA (Hons) in Medieval and Modern History, an MSt in English Local History, a PhD in Cornish Studies, an MA in Music and a Diploma in Vernacular Architecture with distinction, ...

STEWART RICHARDS has worked extensively in the media as a film producer and television executive, as well as producing drama programmes for BBC Radio 4. He established the audiobook publisher Mr Punch ...

Andrew Crowther ANDREW CROWTHER is an expert on W.S. Gilbert, Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, and the author of Contradiction Contradicted: The Plays of W.S. Gilbert.He lives in Bradford and is ...

DAVID DEAN BARRETT has published work in WWII Quarterly magazine and Global War Studies and is the history content consulting producer for Lou Reda Productions’ forthcoming documentary on the U.S.

The late Alf Townsend was born in London in the 1930s. He was a London cabbie for 42 years and published many books about his life experiences, including The London Cabbie and Blitz Boy.

Tom Morgan Tom Morgan is currently a correspondent at The Daily Telegraph. He has also covered major news events around the world for The Sun and the Press Association. This is his third book.

TRACEY NORMAN is an historian and author with a particular interest in witchcraft cases. She is the author of the acclaimed play WITCH, using actual witch trial documents to tell the story of a ...

FIONA EADIE is a professional storyteller based in Horsley, near Nailsworth. She is passionate about language and about bringing the spoken word to life. As a storyteller, she works in two different ...

CHRISTOPHER RIDGWAY is head curator at Castle Howard, chair of the Yorkshire Country House Partnership, and adjunct professor at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at ...

JOANNA FOAT discovered the story of the Lumberjills while she was a PR consultant for the Forestry Commission. After four years’ research, travelling the country to meet over sixty Lumberjills, she ...

Hugh Small is the author of A Brief History of Florence Nightingale, and her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health. He is an acknowledged expert on the war in the Crimea and has appeared on ...