DAVID CANNADINE is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, visiting professor at the University of Oxford, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and president of the British Academy. He is author of many books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Class in Britain, Ornamentalism, Mellon and The Undivided Past. His most recent book is Victorious Century: the United Kingdom 1800–1906.
NICHOLAS DRAPER is director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership at University College London, the author of The Price of Emancipation (Cambridge, 2010) and co-author, with Catherine Hall and others of Legacies of British Slave-Ownership (Cambridge, 2014).
ANNA EAVIS is curatorial director at English Heritage, with responsibility for the presentation and conservation of over 400 historic sites and their collections. She is also responsible for London’s blue plaques scheme. Having joined English Heritage in 1999 she has served on the Senior Management Team in her current capacity since 2012.
LAWRENCE GOLDMAN is professor of history at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and a senior research fellow of St. Peter’s College, Oxford. For ten years, from its publication in 2004, he was editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. From 2014 to 2017 he was director of the Institute of Historical Research.
VICTORIA HARRISON was the chief executive of the Wolfson Foundation (1997–2006) after twenty-five years in the public sector (the British research councils and the Cabinet Office). Since then she has held various trusteeships of both endowed and fundraising charities, including serving as chairman of the University College London Hospitals Charity.
TIFFANY JENKINS is a sociologist, writer and broadcaster. She is an honorary fellow in the department of law at the London School of Economics and author of Keeping their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There (Oxford, 2016). She has also published Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: the Crisis of Cultural Authority (2014), and is the editor of Political Culture: Soft Interventions and Nation Building (2014).
H. STUART JONES is professor of intellectual history at the University of Manchester. His interests encompass the history of political thought, the history of the humanities and social sciences, and the history of universities, with a particular focus on nineteenth-century Britain and France. His books include Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (Cambridge, 2007).
JILL PELLEW is a historian of British public institutions and author of The Home Office 1848–1914: from clerks to bureaucrats (1982). From 1994–9 she was director of the University of Oxford’s development office. Since 2009 she has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and is currently working on the history of British universities and their benefactors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
JOHN SHAKESHAFT is deputy chair of the Council of Cambridge University and chair of the vice-chancellor’s advisory committee on benefactions and external legal engagements. He is also a board member and audit chair of Kinnevik, A.B., and investment director of Corestone, A.G. He formerly served in Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service before becoming a banker. He was educated at Cambridge, Princeton and S.O.A.S.
HOWARD SPENCER is a senior historian at English Heritage and has worked on the London blue plaques scheme for the last thirteen years. Previously he was a research editor at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and a research fellow at the History of Parliament. He has also worked as a local newspaper editor and as a media relations consultant. He is editor of The English Heritage Guide to London’s Blue Plaques.
LAURA VAN BROEKHOVEN is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Previously she led the curatorial department of the National Museum of World Cultures (Amsterdam, Leiden and Berg en Dal) and was a lecturer in archaeology, museum studies and indigenous heritage at Leiden University. She has published widely in her specialist subject, central and south American archaeology and ethnography. Current museological interests include repatriation and redress, with a focus on the importance of collaboration, inclusivity and open-minded enquiry.
BRIAN YOUNG is a University Lecturer in history at Oxford, where he is the Charles Stuart Tutor at Christ Church. He is the author of Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998) and of The Victorian Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2007). He is currently completing a study of relations between Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century England, and has written widely on intellectual and religious history.