SOPHIE AMBLER is lecturer in later medieval British and European history at Lancaster University. She is the author of The Song of Simon de Montfort: the Life and Death of England’s First Revolutionary (2016); Bishops in the Political Community of England, 1213–1272 (2017); and ‘Magna Carta: its confirmation at Simon de Montfort’s parliament of 1265’, published in the English Historical Review in 2015. She was a researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Magna Carta project in 2012–13.
DAVID CARPENTER is professor of medieval history at King’s College, London. He is the author of The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066–1284 (2004) in the new Penguin History of Britain and of Magna Carta (2015) in the Penguin Classics series. He was the principal investigator on the Henry III Fine Rolls project, and a co-investigator of the 2012–15 Magna Carta project, both funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
HARRY T. DICKINSON taught for forty years at the University of Edinburgh, latterly as Sir Richard Lodge Professor of British History. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century British politics and is the author of Bolingbroke (1970); Walpole and the Whig Supremacy (1973); Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1977); The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1994) and Britain and the American Revolution (1998).
RACHEL FOXLEY is associate professor in early modern history at the University of Reading. Her book The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution was published by Manchester University Press in 2013. Her interests focus on seventeenth-century political thought, in particular on radical and republican writing, gender and the interpretation of concepts of democracy.
GEORGE GARNETT is tutorial fellow in modern history at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford where he teaches medieval history and the history of political thought from antiquity to the seventeenth century. His recent publications include Marsilius of Padua and ‘The Truth of History’ (2006) and Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066–1166 (2007).
LAWRENCE GOLDMAN is professor of history at the Institute of Historical Research and a senior research fellow of St. Peter’s College, Oxford where he taught modern British and American history for twenty-four years. He was the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004–2014 and is the author of books on the history of worker’s education; on Victorian social science; and most recently, a biography of the political thinker and historian, R. H. Tawney (2013).
ALEXANDER LOCK is a specialist in eighteenth-century British political history and curator of modern archives and manuscripts at the British Library. He co-curated the modern historical sections of the British Library’s highly acclaimed exhibition Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy in 2015 and has published widely on issues relating to Magna Carta and public history. His book Catholicism, Identity and Politics in the Age of Enlightenment was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2016.
NICHOLAS VINCENT is professor of history at the University of East Anglia and a fellow of the British Academy. He has published widely on aspects of English and European history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries including A Brief History of Britain: The Birth of the Nation 1066–1485 (2011); Magna Carta: a Very Short Introduction (2012); and Magna Carta: Making and Legacy (2015). Between 2012 and 2015 he led the Arts and Humanities Research Council project on the historical background to Magna Carta. He is currently finishing an edition of the charters of the Plantagenet kings and queens from Henry II to King John.