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Martin is Professor of Imperial History and Director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme prize for outstanding research in 2002 and has been both a Leverhulme
Professor Bynner was Director of Longview from 2005-2010. Before that he was Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute for Education, University of London, from 1998-2003, leading the Centre’s work on the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the
Adams is Professor of Musicology in the Music Department of the University of California, Riverside. Byron Adams (b.1955) earned a Bachelor of Music Degree, magna cum laude, from Jacksonville University, studying piano with Mary Lou Wesley Krosnick and composition with
Dr Malcolm Cooper is an Official Historian of Long Finance. Dr Cooper holds a First Class Bachelor of Arts in History from Dalhousie University, a Master of Arts in History from the University of Western Ontario, and a Doctorate of
Sir Howard Morrison KC was called to the Bar by Grays Inn in 1977. He is now a Master of the Bench. He was commissioned as a TAVR infantry officer. He practised on the Midland and Oxford Circuit until 1986
Frank Meddens is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading. His research is primarily focussed in Andean archaeology and the UK, including late pre-historic funerary practices in England and the use of sacred space, Middle Horizon, Late Intermediate
Geoffrey Egan was an archaeologist, medievalist and small finds expert. He spent the majority of his career as an archaeologist in the Museum of London's Department of Urban Archaeology. From 2004 to his death, on secondment to the British Museum
Geoff Pavitt is a former business manager and archivist of Gresham College. There, with the then-Provost Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, he wrote and published Portraits of the Gresham Professors and gave several lectures on the history of the College and
Henry Hitchings is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. The second of his books, The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, won the 2008 John Llewellyn