John Gash, Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Aberdeen

Ela Nutu Hall, Research Associate at the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, at the University of Sheffield

Myrto Hatzimichali, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge

Sophia Connell, Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London

Mark Nixon, Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading and co-director of the Beckett International Foundation

Miles Pattenden, Departmental Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford

Colin Wilson, Senior Research Fellow in Planetary Science at the University of Oxford

Samantha Shave, Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Lincoln

Steven King, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester

Ad Putter, Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Bristol

Toby Osborne, Associate Professor in History at Durham University

Julia Lovell, Professor in Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London

Judith Wolfe, Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of St Andrews

William Fitzgerald, Professor of Latin Language and Literature at King's College London

Ellen O’Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol

David McCallam, Reader in French Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sheffield

Anna Croft, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham

Patrick Gray, Associate Professor of English Studies at Durham University

Gordon McMullan, Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre

Katherine Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Huddersfield

Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds

Laura Rattray, Reader in North American Literature at the University of Glasgow

Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton

John Callanan, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London

Tom Greggs, Marischal Chair of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen

Elly Truitt, Professor of Classics at Bryn Mawr College

Franziska Kohlt, Doctoral Researcher in English Literature and the History of Science at the University of Oxford

Marcus Waithe, University Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College

Jane Thomas, Professor of Victorian and Early 20th Century Literature at the University of Hull

Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Professor of American and Indigenous Histories at the University of East Anglia

Thomas Rath, Lecturer in Latin American History at University College London

Dean Waters, Lecturer in the Environment Department at the University of York

Richard Whatmore, Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History

James Ross, Reader in Late Medieval History at the University of Winchester

Joanna Laynesmith, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading

Simon Dixon, The Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at University College London

Shane O'Rourke, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York

Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol

Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University

Nicola Clarke, Lecturer in the History of the Islamic World at Newcastle University

Helen Heath, Reader in Physics at the University of Bristol

Simon Jolly, Lecturer in High Energy Physics at University College London

John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York

Julia Elton Past, President of the Newcomen Society for the History of Engineering and Technology

Colin Divall, Professor Emeritus of Railway Studies at the University of York

Ulrike Roth, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh

Myles Lavan, Senior lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews

Marjory Harper, Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen and Visiting Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands

Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English Literature and Pro Vice Principal at the University of Glasgow

Tim Barrett, Professor Emeritus of East Asian History at SOAS, University of London

Sarah Gurr, Professor of Food Security in the Biosciences Department at the University of Exeter

David Johnson, N8 Chair in Microbial Ecology at the University of Manchester

Karen Salt, Assistant Professor in Transnational American Studies at the University of Nottingham

Paul Rodhouse, Emeritus Fellow of the British Antarctic Survey

Jonathan Ablett, Senior Curator of Molluscs at the Natural History Museum

Valentina Arena, Reader in Roman History at University College London

Alexandra Harrington, Reader in Russian Studies at Durham University

Michael Basker, Professor of Russian Literature and Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol

Kate Fleet, Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge

Carol Rutter, Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick

Sonia Massai, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London

Erica Buurman, Senior Lecturer in Music, Canterbury Christ Church University

Michael Staunton, Associate Professor in History at University College Dublin

Danica Summerlin, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield

Katie McGettigan, Lecturer in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

Graham Thompson, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham

Nick Evans, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Southampton

Samuel Gartland, Lecturer in Ancient History at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

Alison Finch, Professor Emerita of French Literature at the University of Cambridge

Katherine Astbury, Associate Professor and Reader in French Studies at the University of Warwick

Gordon Noble, Reader in Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen

Gijs van Hensbergen, Historian of Spanish Art and Fellow of the LSE Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

Dacia Viejo Rose, Lecturer in Heritage in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge Fellow of Selwyn College

Maria McNamara, Senior Lecturer in Geology at University College Cork

Ros Ballaster, Professor of 18th Century Literature at Mansfield College, University of Oxford

Claire Bowditch, Post-doctoral Research Associate in English and Drama at Loughborough University

John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature at the University of York

Alexandra Lewis, Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Aberdeen

John Callanan, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London

Tim Guilford, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Tutorial Fellow of Zoology at Merton College, Oxford

Richard Holland, Senior Lecturer in Animal Cognition at Bangor University

James Warren, Fellow of Corpus Christi College and a Reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge

Emily Finer, Lecturer in Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews

Simon Dixon, The Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at University College London

Mara Keire, Lecturer in US History at the University of Oxford

Christopher Phelps, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham

Miranda Griffin, Lecturer in French and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge

Marilynn Desmond, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University

Sarah Barry, Lecturer in Chemical Biology at King's College London

Matthew Treherne, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Leeds

Helen Foxhall Forbes, associate professor of Early Medieval History at Durham University

Anne Hardy, Honorary Professor at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Michael Worboys, Emeritus Professor in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester

Linda Freedman, Lecturer in English and American Literature at University College London

Paraic Finnerty, Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Portsmouth

Stephen Church, Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia

Kate Spence, Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at Cambridge University and Fellow of Emmanuel College

Amanda Power, associate professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford

Elly Truitt, associate professor of Medieval History at Bryn Mawr College

Mark Jones, Irish Research Council fellow at the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin

Nadine Rossol, Senior lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Essex

Michela Massimi, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh

Graham Farmelo, Bye-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge

Rosina Buckland, Senior Curator of Japanese Collections at the National Museum of Scotland

Ellis Tinios, Honorary Lecturer in the School of History, University of Leeds

Lindsay Allen, Lecturer in Greek and Near Eastern History, King's College London

Paul Cartledge, Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture and AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge

Mark Maslin, Professor of Palaeoclimatology at University College London

Tracy Aze, Lecturer in Marine Micropaleontology at the University of Leeds

Jenny Uglow, Biographer of Elizabeth Gaskell

Stephen Lowry, Reader in Planetary and Space Sciences, University of Kent

Alessandro Schiesaro, Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester

Peter Pormann, Professor of Classics & Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester

Mina Gorji, Senior Lecturer in the English Faculty and fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge

Simon Kövesi, Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University

Frisbee Sheffield, Lecturer in Philosophy at Girton College, University of Cambridge

Wendy Gibson, Professor of Protozoology at the University of Bristol

Kayla King, associate professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford

Anna Groundwater, Teaching Fellow in Historical Skills and Methods at the University of Edinburgh

Adam Mosley, associate professor in the Department of History at Swansea University

Fran Brearton, Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen's University Belfast

Mark Ford, Professor of English and American Literature at University College London

Judith Hawley, Professor of 18th century literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

Emma Major, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of York

Karen O'Brien, Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford

David Laven, associate professor of History at the University of Nottingham

Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture

David Blayney Brown, Manton Curator of British Art 1790–1850 at Tate Britain

James Davey, Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum

James Sumner, Lecturer in the History of Technology at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester

Giles Gasper, Reader in Medieval History at Durham University

Kate Lancaster, research fellow for Innovation and Impact at the York Plasma Institute at the University of York

Bill Graham, Professor of Physics at Queen's University Belfast

Jacqueline Suthren-Hirst, Senior Lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Manchester

Mary Vincent, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Sheffield

Barbara Sattler, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews

James Warren, Reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge

Elizabeth Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Photographic History at De Montfort University

Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London

Tim Stanton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York

Sarah Haggarty, Lecturer at the Faculty of English and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge

Jon Mee, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York

Simon Stoddart, Fellow of Magdalene College and Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge

Christoph Tang, Professor of Cellular Pathology and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College at the University of Oxford

Katherine Lewis, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield

Tim Lockley, Professor of American History at the University of Warwick

Penelope Murray, Founder member and retired Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Warwick

Mark Knights, Professor of History at the University of Warwick

Francis O'Gorman, Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds

Jane Thomas, Reader in Victorian and early Twentieth Century literature at the University of Hull

Serafina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck, University of London

Jane Stabler, Professor in Romantic Literature at the University of St Andrews

Andrew Harrison, chief executive officer of Diamond Light Source and Professor in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh

Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews

Susan Stronge, Senior Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Matthew Nicholls, associate professor of Classics at the University of Reading

Daniel Karlin, Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol

Karen O'Brien, Professor of English Literature at King's College London

Jonathan Andrews, Reader in the History of Psychiatry at Newcastle University

Benjamin Vis, Eastern ARC Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Kent

Chris Nierstrasz, Lecturer in Global History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, formerly at the University of Warwick

Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton

Joan Taylor, Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College London

Rob Iliffe, Professor of History of Science at University of Oxford

Lloyd Ridgeon, Reader in Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow

Apryll Stalcup, Professor of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University

Leon Barron, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science at King's College London

Nicholas Vincent, Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia

Julie Barrau, University Lecturer in British Medieval History at the University of Cambridge

Peter Thompson, associate professor of American History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College

Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University

Mark Chinca, Reader in Medieval German Literature at the University of Cambridge

Laura Herz, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford

Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution

Debra Skene, Professor of Neuroendocrinology at the University of Surrey

Hilde de Weerdt, Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University

Rebekah Higgitt, Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Kent

Sophie Forgan, Retired Principal Lecturer at the University of Teesside, and Chairman of Trustees of the Captain Cook Museum, Whitby

Marion Gibson, Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter

Emma Clery, Professor of English at the University of Southampton

Kate Fleet, Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge

Marie Rodet, Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS

Kevin MacDonald, Professor of African Archaeology, Chair of the African Studies Programme at University College London

Margaret Atack, Professor of French at the University of Leeds

Ursula Tidd, Professor of Modern French Literature and Thought at the University of Manchester

Maria Hayward, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton

Rachel Mairs, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading

Steven Bramwell, Professor of Physics and former Professor of Chemistry at University College London

Valerie Fraser, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Art at the University of Essex

Katrin Kohl, Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College

Karen O'Brien, Vice Principal and Professor of English Literature at King's College London

Sara Lyons, Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Kent

Amanda Power, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield

Philip Alexander, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, University of Manchester

Emma Griffin, Professor of History at the University of East Anglia

David Brown, Senior Lecturer in American Studies at University of Manchester

Bashabi Fraser, Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University

John Stevens, Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London

Arwen Deuss, associate professor in Seismology at Utrecht University

Simon Redfern, Professor of Mineral Physics at the University of Cambridge

Judith Hawley, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

Anne Gerritsen, Reader in History at the University of Warwick

Jacqueline Fear-Segal, [https://www.uea.ac.uk/american-studies/people/profile/j-fear-segal] Reader in American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia

Frank Cogliano,   Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh

Robert Gleave,   Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter

Anne Green, [https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/anne.green] Reader in Physics at the University of Nottingham

Clare Lees,   Professor of Medieval English Literature and History of the Language at King's College London

Shaun Tougher,   Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University

Michael Hoeckelmann,   British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at King's College London

Donald Winch,   Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex

Helen Paul,   Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton

Wendy Flavell,   Professor of Surface Physics at the University of Manchester

Susan Cartwright,   Senior Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield

Naomi Appleton,   Chancellor's Fellow in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh

Katherine Harloe,   Associate Professor in Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading

Neville Morley,   Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol

Joanna Hodge,   Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University

Jeanne Nuechterlein,   Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University of York

Rebecca Kilner,   Professor of Evolutionary biology at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

Lucia Dolce, [https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30872.php] Numata Reader in Japanese Buddhism at SOAS, University of London

Eric Greene,   Lecturer in East Asian Religions at the University of Bristol

Steve Connor,   Professor of English, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Lucy Grig,   Senior Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Edinburgh

Ben Marsden,   Senior Lecturer, School of Divinity, History and philosophy, University of Aberdeen

Crosbie Smith,   Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Kent

Kate Spence,   Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Cambridge

Campbell Price, Curator of Department of Egypt & Syria, Manchester Museum (The University of Manchester)

Steve Cowley,   Professor in Plasma Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics Imperial College, London

Justin Wark, [https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/wark] Professor of Physics, University of Oxford

Tim Lockley,   School of Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick

Karen Salt,   Research Fellow at School of Divinity, History and philosophy, University of Aberdeen

Daniel Karlin,   Research Fellow in English, William Wills of English, University of Bristol

Jan Montefiore,   Professor of 20th Century English Literature, University of Kent

Michael Höckelmann,   British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at King's College London

Jane Goldman,   Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow

Kathryn Simpson,   Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University

William Flynn,   Lecturer in Medieval Latin at the University of Leeds

Almut Suerbaum,   Lecturer in German, Fellow of Somerville at the University of Oxford

Anna Marie Roos,   Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Media Humanities and Performance at the University of Lincoln

Nicole Pohl,   Reader in Early Modern Literature and Critical Theory at Oxford Brookes University

Laliv Clenman,com_qcontacts/catid,10551/id,362/view, contact/ Lecturer in Rabbinic Literature at Leo Baeck College

Daniel Karlin,   Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol

Kirstie Blair,   Professor at the University of Stirling

John F Allen,   Professor of Biochemistry at Queen Mary, University of London

Barak Kushner,   University of Cambridge

Tehyun Ma, [https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/ma/] Lecturer in Chinese History at University of Exeter

Roland Emmarch,   Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool

Mary Newbould,   University of Cambridge

Elisabeth van Houts,   Honorary Professor of Medieval European History at the University of Cambridge

Maria Pretzler,   Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Swansea University

Justin Wark, [https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/wark] Professor of Physics and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford

Sam Whimster,   Honorary Professor in Sociology at the University of New South Wales

Michela Massimi,   Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh

The Reverend Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church

Theresa Urbainczyk,   Associate Professor of Classics (Scoil na gClasaicí UCD), University College Dublin

William Ayliffe,   FRCS PhD, Consultant Ophthalmologist at Lister Hospital, London, Professor at Gresham College

Robert Iliffe,  , Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science, University of Sussex

Gregory Radick,   Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds

Charlotte Sleigh,   Reader in the History of Science at the University of Kent

Matthew Strickland,   Professor at School of Humanities / Sgoil nan Daonnachdan, University of Glasgow

Josephine Quinn,   Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Worcester College, Oxford

Jan Zalasiewicz,   Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Leicester

Leucha Veneer,   Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester

Tim Barrett,   Professor of East Asian History at SOAS, University of London

Hilde de Weerdt,   Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University

Frisbee Sheffield,   Director of Studies in Philosophy at Christ's College, Cambridge

Robert Black,   Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Leeds

Catherine Fletcher,   Lecturer in Public History at the University of Sheffield

Jeff Johnson,   Professor of Complexity Science and Design at the Open University

Eve Mitleton-Kelly,   Director of the Complexity Research Group at the London School of Economics

Roy Gibson,   Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester

Michelle Peckham,   Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Leeds

Tim Lockley,   Reader in American Studies at the University of Warwick

Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Reader in American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia

Erin Sullivan, Lecturer and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

Julia Tanney, Reader in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Kent

Joanna Lewis, assistant professor of Imperial History at the London School of Economics, University of London

Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture

Caroline Petit, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Classics at the University of Warwick

Don Pollacco, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Warwick

Suzanne Aigrain, Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Nasser Khalili, Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London

Michael Moriarty, Professor of French at the University of Cambridge

Michela Massimi, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh

Elizabeth Bruton, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds

John Liffen, Curator of Communications at the Science Museum, London

Margaret Hillenbrand, University Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College

Justin Meggitt, University Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion and the Origins of Christianity at the University of Cambridge

Jonathan Stökl, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Leiden University

Kate Cooper, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester

Richard Stoneman, Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter

Christina Howells, Professor of French at Oxford University

Vincent Debaene, associate professor of French Literature at Columbia University

Tim Greenshaw, Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool

Emily Lethbridge, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík

Terence Cave, Emeritus Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford

Felicity Green, Chancellor's Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh

Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University

Kate Peters, Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

Chiara Franceschini, Teaching Fellow at University College London and an Academic Assistant at the Warburg Institute

Andrew Cobbing, associate professor of History at the University of Nottingham

Rebekah Clements, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Imperial College London

Andrea Sella, Professor of Chemistry at University College London

Patricia Hunt, research fellow of Queens' College and Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge

George Beccaloni, Curator of Cockroaches and Related Insects and Director of the Wallace Correspondence Project at the Natural History Museum

Ted Benton, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex

Cynthia Marsh, Emeritus Professor of Russian ama and Literature at the University of Nottingham

Nicola Wilkin, Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Birmingham

John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York

Carrie Lear, Senior Lecturer in Palaeoceanography at Cardiff University

James Warren, Reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge

Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh

Peter Wiseman, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter

Paul Murdin, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge

Don Pollacco, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Warwick

Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature and Head of Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York

Laura Ashe, CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow at Worcester College at the University of Oxford

John North, Acting Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London

Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton

Roey Sweet, Head of the School of History at the University of Leicester

Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History at Pembroke College, Cambridge

Mike Beaney, Professor of Philosophy at the University of York

Hilary Greaves, Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford

Mike Glazer, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Warwick

Catherine Fletcher, Lecturer in Public History at the University of Sheffield

Christine Shaw, Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University

Stephen Plant, Runcie Fellow and Dean of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge

David Levy, Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh

Simon Brodbeck, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Cardiff

Louise Wilkinson, Reader in Medieval History at Canterbury Christ Church University

Vicky Neale, Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge

Samir Siksek, Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick

David Rundle, Member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford

Mark Woolmer, Senior Tutor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham

Louis Rawlings, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University

Huw Pryce, Professor of Welsh History at Bangor University

Clare Carlisle, Lecturer in Philosophy of religion at King's College London

Cathie Martin, MBE, ^[3] Group Leader at the John Innes Centre and Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia

Jill Kraye, Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London

James Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic Elect at the University of Cambridge

David Stack, Reader in History at the University of Reading

Yasmin Khan, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London

Jeri Johnson, Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford

Richard Brown, Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Leeds

Philip Alexander, Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester

Katharine Dell, Senior Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge

Ellen Adams, Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at King's College London

Susan Sherratt, Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield

Joan Pau Rubies, Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Debra Higgs Strickland, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow

Andrew Colman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Leicester

Richard Bradley, Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Nicholas Cronk, Professor of French Literature and Director of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford

Caroline Warman, Lecturer in French and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford

Steven Gunn, Tutor and Fellow in Modern History at Merton College, Oxford

David Grummitt, Lecturer in British History at the University of Kent

Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London

Andrew Scott, Professor of Applied Palaeobotany at Royal Holloway, University of London

Leucha Veneer, Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester

Kate Peters, Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge

Adam Sutcliffe, Senior Lecturer in European History at King's College, London

Alice Koenig, Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St Andrews

Peter Swaab, Reader in English Literature at University College London

Simon Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow

Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics at Imperial College London

Lesley Cohen, Professor of Solid State Physics at Imperial College London

Hilde de Weerdt, Fellow and Lecturer in Chinese History at Pembroke College, Oxford

Jill Kraye, Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London

Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent and research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

David Smith, Reader in South Asian Religions at the University of Lancaster

Michela Massimi, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at University College London

Mike Rapport, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling

Emma Loosley, Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester

Andrew Newman, Reader in Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh.

• Programme 1: The Technology and Early Development of Writing
• Programme 2: The Evolution of Writing and the Invention of the Book
• Programme 3: Writing and Religion
• Programme 4: Literature
• Programme 5: The Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment

Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College

Charlotte Williams, Reader in Polymer Chemistry and Catalysis at Imperial College, London

Judith Hawley, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

Bob Owens, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Open University

Kate Cushing, Reader in Medieval History at Keele University

John Gillingham, Emeritus Professor of History at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London

James Warren, Senior Lecturer in Classics and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Rhian Williams, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Glasgow

Nicholas Shrimpton, Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Tessa Rajak, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading

Philip Alexander, Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester

Charles Burnett, Professor of the History of Islamic Influences on Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London

Beatrice Han-Pile, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex

Hans Johann-Glock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich

Ian Crawford, Reader in Planetary Science and Astrobiology at Birkbeck College, London

Elizabeth Graham, Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College, London

Caroline Dodds Pennock, Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield

Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer on the history of art at Reading University

James Harris, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews

Corinna Riva, Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London

Lucia Dolce, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Religion and Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Peter Pormann, Wellcome Trust Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick

Ellen Adams,   Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at King's College London

Seamus Perry, Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, University of Oxford,

Jane Wright, Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol

Emma Griffin,   Senior Lecturer in History at the University of East Anglia

Rob Lutton, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Nottingham

Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, Lecturer in Scandinavian History of the Viking Age at Clare Hall, Cambridge

Stephen Baxter,   Reader in Medieval History at King's College London

Adam Smith, Senior Lecturer in American History at University College London

Mary Ann Lund, Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester

Erin Sullivan, Lecturer and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham

Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter

Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow

Susan Cartwright, Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield

David Wark, Professor of Particle Physics at Imperial College, London, and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Gillian Darley, Historian and biographer of Octavia Hill

Jessica Frazier, research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies at Regent's College, London

Timothy Champion, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton

Ian Wei, Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History at the University of Bristol

Peter Denley, Reader in History at Queen Mary, University of London

Sarah Stroumsa, Professor of Arabic Studies and currently Rector at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London

Fiona Watson, Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Dundee

Patience Schell, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester

Jane Stabler, Reader in Romanticism at the University of St Andrews

Emily Bernhard Jackson, Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Arkansas

Emma Griffin, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of East Anglia

Pat Hudson, Professor Emerita of History at Cardiff University

William Ashworth, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool

Hilde de Weerdt, Fellow and Tutor in Chinese History at Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Kathleen Burk, Professor of History, University College London

Iwan Morus, Reader in History, University of Aberystwyth

Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin at University College London

Susan Walker, Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford

Tom Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Sussex

Elizabeth Evenden, Lecturer in Book History at Brunel University

Elizabeth Ashman Rowe,  , Lecturer in Scandinavian History of the Viking Age at Clare Hall, Cambridge

Karen O'Brien,  , Professor of English at the University of Warwick

Judith Hawley,  , Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

Lauren Kassell,  , Lecturer in the History and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge

Rosanna Keefe,  , Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield

Susanne Kord,   Professor of German at University College, London

Maike Oergel,   associate professor of German at the University of Nottingham

Aude Doody, Lecturer in Classics at University College, Dublin

Liba Taub, Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University

John Hines, Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University

Richard Gameson, Professor of the History of the Book at Durham University

Julian Dowdeswell, Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Cambridge

David Walton, Emeritus Professor at the British Antarctic Survey and Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool

Danielle Schreve, Reader in Physical Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London

Richard Bourke, Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London

David Ekserdjian, Professor of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester

Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor of Clare College, University of Cambridge

Gwen Griffith-Dickson, Emeritus Professor of Divinity at Gresham College and Director of the Lokahi Foundation

Paul Murdin, Visiting Professor of Astronomy at Liverpool John Moores University's Astronomy Research Institute

Saul Dubow, Professor of History at the University of Sussex

Uttara Natarajan, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London

Julia Merritt, associate professor of History at the University of Nottingham

Greg Woolfis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews

Dorothy Rowe, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol

Alastair Wright, University Lecturer in the History of Art at St John's College, University of Oxford.

Richard Hingley, Professor of Roman Archaeology at Durham University

Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Professor of Archaeology in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University.

Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck College, University of London

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford.

Shruti Kapila, University Lecturer in History and Fellow and Director of Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

Hugh N. Kennedy, is Professor of Arabic in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Dinah Birch, Professor of English at Liverpool University

Valentine Cunningham, Professor of English Language and Literature at Corpus Christi, University of Oxford.

Karin Bowie, Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow

Daniel Szechi, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester

Esther Leslie, Professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London

Barbara Taylor, Professor of Modern History in the School of Humanities

Nicola Liscutin, Programme Director of Japanese Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London

Gregory Irvine, Senior Curator Japan at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Serafina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck College, University of London

John O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of St Andrews

Tim Barrett, Professor of East Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies

Naomi Standen, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Newcastle University

Katherine Mullin, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds

Jeri Johnson, Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford

Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution

Lucy Wooding, Lecturer in Early Modern History at King's College, London

Beatrice Han-Pile, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex

Christopher Janaway, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton

Sanjeev Gupta, Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at Imperial College London

Clare Jackson, Lecturer and Director of Studies in History at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Helen Hackett, Reader in English at University College London

Ruth Harris, Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University

Elizabeth Frood, Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Oxford

Kate Spence, Lecturer in the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt at the University of Cambridge

Annabel Brett, Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Thomas Uebel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester

Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter

Janet Clare, Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull

Diane Purkiss, Fellow and Tutor at Keble College, Oxford

John Barclay, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University

Helen Bond, Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at the University of Edinburgh

Eleanor Weston, a mammalian palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London

Bill Amos, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at Cambridge University

Andrew Wheatcroft, Professor of International Publishing at Stirling University

Claire Norton, Lecturer in History at St Mary's University, London

Ruth Gregory, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Durham University

Janet Hartley, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics

Anthony Cross, Emeritus Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge

June Purvis, Professor of Women's & Gender History at the University of Portsmouth

Julia Bush, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton

Michèle Barrett, Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory at Queen Mary, University of London

Rhodri Lewis, University Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Hugh's

Valery Rees, Renaissance scholar and senior member of the Language Department at the School of Economic Science

Jill Kraye, Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute at the University of London

Gary Tiedemann, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in China

Matthew Nicholls, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading

Serafina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck College, University of London

Simon Saunders, Reader in Philosophy of Physics and University Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the University of Oxford

Fran Brearton, Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast

Lawrence Rainey, Professor of English and American Literature at the University of York

David Arnold, Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick

Chris Minkowski, Professor in Sanskrit at the University of Oxford

Jo Quinn, Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford

Ellen O'Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol

Tony Phelan, Professor in German at Keble College, Oxford

Judith Hawley, Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

Ian McBride, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at King's College London

John Burrow, emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford

Tim Morris, Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Dundee

Stephen Fender, Honorary Professor in English Literature at University College London

Alison Pearn, the Darwin Correspondence Project

Nick Biddle, former garden curator at Down House

Jim Secord, the Darwin Correspondence Project

David Norman, Director of The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge

David Norman, Director of The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge

Colin Higgins, Assistant Librarian at Christ's College, Cambridge

Vanessa Harding, Reader in London History at Birkbeck, University of London

Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde

Joanna Haigh, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London

Michael Bentley, Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews

Nigel Aston, Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester

Helen Hills, Professor of Art History at the University of York

Gemma Calvert, Professor of Applied Neuroimaging at WMG, University of Warwick

Annabel Brett, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge

John Fisher, Professor of Latin American History at the University of Liverpool

Catherine Davies, Professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham

John Took, Professor of Dante Studies at University College London

Claire Honess, Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leeds and Co-Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies

Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College, University of London

Pietro Corsi, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford

Philip Welch, Professor of Mathematical Logic at the University of Bristol

Peter Pormann, Wellcome Trust Assistant Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick

Janet Soskice, Reader in Philosophical Theology at Cambridge University

Ellen O'Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol

Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin at University College London

Tom Cain, Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Newcastle

Robert Hoyland, Professor in Arabic and Middle East Studies at the University of St Andrews

Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford

Angela Voss, Director of the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination at the University of Kent, Canterbury

Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London

Samuel Cohn, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow

Paul Binski, Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Karen Radner, Lecturer in the Ancient Near Eastern History at University College London

Andrew R. George, Professor of Babylonian at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London

Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde

Marina Wallace, Professor at the University of the Arts, London, Central St Martin's College of Art and Design

Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow

Mark Overton, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter

Caroline Warman, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford

Fran Brearton, Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast and Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry

Warwick Gould, Director of the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Richard Gameson, Professor in the Department of History at Durham University

Matthew Strickland, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow

Rob Iliffe, Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science at the University of Sussex

Diane Purkiss, Fellow and Tutor at Keble College, Oxford

George Bernard, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton

Clare Carlisle, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool

John Lippitt, Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire

Richard Buxton, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol

John Fuegi, Visiting Professor in Biography at Kingston University

Katherine Duncan-Jones, Tutorial Fellow in English at Somerville College, Oxford

Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern Contemporary History at University College London

Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London

Karen O'Brien, Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick

Howard Hotson, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford

Adam Mosley, Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Wales, Swansea

Joe Cann, Senior Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds

Lynne Frostick, Director of the Hull Environment Research Institute and Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Hull

Stephen Knight, Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University

Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh, Cardiff University and Director of the Folklore Society

Trudi Tate, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge

David Walker, Professor of French at the University of Sheffield

Christina Howells, Professor of French at Wadham College, University of Oxford

Andrew Louth, Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at the University of Durham

Vivian Nutton, Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London

Noga Arikha, Visiting Fellow at the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris

James Howard-Johnston, University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford

Adrian Woolfson, lectures in Medicine at Cambridge University

Jackie Stedall, Junior Research Fellow in History of Mathematics at Queen's College, Oxford

Ron Knott, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Surrey

Stephen Gill, University Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford

Emma Mason, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick

Oliver Davies, Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College London

Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London

Clare Jackson, Lecturer and Director of Studies in History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Ruth Gregory, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Durham

David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University

Paul Millett, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge

Mary Orr, Professor of French at the University of Southampton

Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford

Harry Bennett, Reader in History and Head of Humanities at the University of Plymouth

Tim Lockley, associate professor of History at the University of Warwick

Lauren Kassell, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge

Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde

Fran Brearton, Reader in English and Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the University of Belfast

Max Egremont, a biographer of Siegfried Sassoon

Malcolm Vale, Fellow and Tutor in History at St John's College, Oxford

Sarah Hutton, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Lars Laamann, research fellow in Chinese History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

Xun Zhou, research fellow in History at SOAS, University of London

Stephanie Snow, Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at the University of Manchester

Anne Hardy, Professor in the History of Modern Medicine at University College London

Katharine Lerman, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at London Metropolitan University

Karen O'Brien, Professor in English at the University of Warwick

Brean Hammond, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham

Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College, University of London

Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum

Robert Hampson, Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

Laurence Davies, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

Naomi Standen, Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University

George Lane, Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies

Serafina Cuomo, Reader in the History of Science at Imperial College London

George Phillips, Honorary Reader in Mathematics at St Andrews University

Simon Ditchfield, Reader in History at the University of York

Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University and an expert on Martian meteorites

Efraín Kristal, Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles

Evelyn Fishburn, Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London

Colin Imber, formerly Reader in Turkish at Manchester University

Margaret Kean, Tutor and Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford

Dennis Almeida, Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Exeter University and the Open University

Peter Marshall, philosopher and historian

Iwan Morus, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth

John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science at Exeter University and director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society

Alastair Dunn, author of The Peasants' Revolt – England's Failed Revolution of 1381

Jim McLaverty, Professor of English at Keele University

Valerie Rumbold, Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University.

Caroline Warman, Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford

Tim Barrett, Professor of East Asian History at SOAS

David Bagchi, Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought at the University of Hull

Jim Secord, Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project

Alexander Murray, emeritus fellow in History at University College, Oxford

Ken Teo, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Cambridge University

Sarah Meer, Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, Cambridge

Clive Webb, Reader in American History at the University of Sussex

Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde

Ruth Tatlow, Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Stockholm

Nicola Bown, Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London

Chris Dye, Co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's work on tuberculosis epidemiology

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

Simon Skinner, Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford

Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh

W. Daniel Wilson, Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London

Mary Garrison, Lecturer in History at the University of York

Edwin Williamson, Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford

Jane Whetnall, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London

Simon Dixon, Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds

Tony Lentin, Professor of History at the Open University

Fred Spoor, Professor of Evolutionary Anatomy at University College London

Margaret Clegg, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Anthropology at University College London

Ardis Butterfield, Reader in English at University College London

Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Keele

Joad Raymond, Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia

Annabel Brett, Senior Lecturer in Political Thought and Intellectual History at Cambridge University

Alexander Murray, medieval historian and emeritus fellow of University College, Oxford

Jim McLaverty, Professor of English at Keele University

Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London

Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford

Penny Roberts, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick

Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London

Charles Hope, Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, University of London

Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London

Marcus Walsh, Kenneth Allott Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool

Rebecca Spang, Lecturer in Modern History at University College London

Julian Baggini, Editor of The Philosophers' Magazine

David Moore, Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham

Richard Parkinson, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum

John Hines, Professor in the School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University

Valery Rees, Renaissance Scholar at the School of Economic Science

Laura Marcus, Professor of English, University of Sussex

Lauren Kassell, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge

Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster

Osman Durrani, Professor of German at the University of Kent at Canterbury

Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University

Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex and a Jungian analyst in clinical practice

David Wark, Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Farrokh Vajifdar, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society

Alan Williams, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester

Iwan Morus, Lecturer in the History of Science at Queen's University Belfast

Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London

Ceri Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor

Malcolm Gaskill, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge

Carol Michaelson, Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Asia at the British Museum

Benedict O'Donohoe, Principal Lecturer in French at the University of the West of England and Secretary of the ;UK Society for Sartrean Studies

Christina Howells, Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College

Michael Jones, medieval historian and write

John Watts, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Simon Middleton, Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia

Colin Bonwick, Professor Emeritus in American History at Keele University

Valery Rees, Renaissance historian and a translator of Ficino's letters

Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde

Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian at the School of Oriental and African Studies

Sarah Barber, Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University

Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at the University of Cambridge

James Walvin, Professor of History at the University of York

Rachel Bowlby, Professor of English at the University of York who has written the introduction to the latest Penguin translation of Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer's Studies in Hysteria

Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London

Jennifer Wallace, Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge

Vivienne Lo, Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine

Carol Michaelson, Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum

Val Gibson, particle physicist from the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Heather O'Donoghue, Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford University

John Hines, Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University

Susan Stronge, Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of St Andrews

Annie Janowitz, Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary, University of London

Peter de Bolla, Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge

Fred Piper, Professor and Director of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and co-author of Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction

Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics in the Galton Laboratory at University College London and author of Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated

Rosalind Thomas, Professor of Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London

Alison Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex

Mark Greengrass, Professor of History at the University of Sheffield

Penny Roberts, Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick

Hazel Rymer, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University

Henry Gee, Senior Editor at Nature

Annabel Brett, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge

Lyn Pykett, Professor of English and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Thomas Hahn, Professor of English Literature at the University of Rochester, New York

Juliette Wood, Secretary of the Folklore Society

Virginia Nicholson, author of Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900–1939

Graham Robb, writer and biographer of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud

Marina Benjamin, journalist and author of Living at the End of the World

Karen Edwards, Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter

Steve Self, Professor of Vulcanology at the Open University

Bill McGuire, Benfield Professor of Geophysical Hazards at University College London.

Rosemary Sweet, Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester

Jenny Uglow, Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick and author of The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future

Peter Jones, Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham

Mike Kopelman, Professor of Neuropsychiatry at King's College London and St Thomas' Hospital

Kim Graham, Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde

Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales in Cardiff

Stana Nenadic, Senior Lecturer in Social History at Edinburgh University

Allan Macinnes, Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at Aberdeen University.

Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, London

Deborah Thom, Lecturer in History at Robinson College, Cambridge

Mary Vincent, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Sheffield University

Phil Charles, Professor of Astronomy at Southampton University

Liba Taub, Director of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Cambridge University

Adrian Locke, co-curator of the Aztecs exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts

Elizabeth Graham, Senior Lecturer in Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London

Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and author of A Guide to Western Historical Scripts

Karen Edwards, Lecturer in English at Exeter University

David Bradley, Professor of Tropical Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Chris Dye, epidemiologist with the World Health Organisation

Karen O'Brien, Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Warwick

Mehri Niknam, executive director of the Maimonides Foundation, a joint Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Foundation in London

John Gray, Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics

Gillian Darley, Architectural historian and biographer of John Soane

Sally Alexander, Professor of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Annabel Brett, Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge

Lucy Beckett, author of Richard Wagner: Parsifal

Michael Tanner, philosopher and author of Wagner and Nietzsche

Martin Palmer, Theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture

Neil Johnson, University Lecturer in Physics at Oxford University

Julian Baggini, editor, The Philosopher's Magazine and co-editor of New British Philosophy: The Interviews

Tony Sudbery, Professor of Mathematics, University of York

Sarah Hudspith, Lecturer in Russian, University of Leeds

Robert Pynsent, Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature, University College London

Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck University of London

Frederik Pedersen, Lecturer in History, Aberdeen University

Christina Hardyment, Social historian and journalist

Kate Crosby, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, SOAS

Mahinda Deagallee, Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Bath Spa University College and a Buddhist Monk from the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka

Andrew Cunningham, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the History of Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University

Warwick Gould, Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London

Euan Cameron, Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Ivan Day, food historian

Regenia Gagnier, Professor of English at the University of Exeter

Neil Sammells, Dean of Humanities at Bath Spa University and author of Wilde Style

Darian Leader, the psychoanalyst

Tim Barrett, Professor of East Asian History at SOAS, the School of African and Oriental Studies at London University

Tao Tao Liu, Tutorial Fellow in Oriental Studies at Wadham College, Cambridge University

Mike Broers, University of Aberdeen

Belinda Beaton, from the Department of History of Art, at Oxford University

Tim Winter, Assistant Muslim Chaplain at Cambridge University where he is lecturer in Islamic Studies

Liz James, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Sussex.

Michael Slater, Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London and editor of The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism

John Bowen, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Keele.

Cherry Lewis, geologist and author of The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

John Cosgrove, Structural Geologist from the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College, London

Christina Howells, Professor of French at the University of Oxford, fellow of Wadham College

Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex and author of A Companion to Continental Philosophy.

Anne Janowitz, Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary College, London

Andrew Roberts, nineteenth century historian

Margaret Atkins, Lecturer in Theology at Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds

Laura Marcus, Reader in English at the University of Sussex

Rosemary Sweet, Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester

Scott Mandelbrote, Fellow and Director of Studies at Peterhouse, Cambridge

Martin Ward, director of the X-Ray Astronomy Group at the University of Leicester

David Womersley, Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford and editor of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Richard Alston, Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London

Thomas Docherty, Professor of English at the University of Kent

Grace Ioppolo, lecturer in English at the University of Reading

Clare Jackson, lecturer and Director of Studies in History, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Simon Goldhill, Reader in Greek Literature and Culture at King's College Cambridge.

Ziauddin Sardar, Professor of Science and Technology Policy, Middlesex University.

Hilary Rose, sociologist and Visiting Professor of Social Policy, Bradford University.

Jeremy Black, Professor of History at Exeter University.

John D. Barrow, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Emma Clery, senior lecturer in the English Department at Sheffield Hallam University and author of The Rise of Supernatural Fiction

Catherine Belsey University of Cardiff

Lisa Appignanesi, novelist and co-author of Freud's Women.

Nicholas Roe, Professor of English, University of St Andrews

Mary Fulbrook, Professor of German History at University College London.

Iain Sinclair poet, novelist and author of Liquid City and Lights Out for the Territory.

Evelyn Welch, Reader in the History of Art, University of Sussex

John Murrell, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Sussex

Colin Richmond, Emeritus Professor of History, Keele University

Steven Gunn, Tudor historian and Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Merton College, Oxford

Mark Roberts, Field Archaeologist, Project Leader of Boxgrove excavation and the discoverer of Boxgrove Man

Sandy Knapp, Research Botanist, Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London

Vitali Vitaliev, author, columnist, broadcaster former Soviet Journalist of the Year

Victoria Glendinning, author, journalist and biographer of Anthony Trollope and Jonathan Swift

Catherine Bates, critic and research fellow, University of Warwick

Jacqueline Pearson, Professor of English Literature, Manchester University

Cora Kaplan, feminist cultural critic and Professor of English, Southampton University

Ian Angell, Professor of Information Systems, London School of Economics and author of The New Barbarian Manifesto: How to Survive the Information Age

Gillian Beer, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge University and Chairman of the Booker Prize judges 1997

Gwen Adshead, consultant psychiatrist, Broadmoor Special Hospital

Marina Warner, novelist, historian, critic, former Reith Lecturer and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, London

Semir Zeki, Professor of Neurobiology at University College, London

Nick Groom, lecturer in English, University of Exeter

Nancy Wood, Chair of Media Studies, University of Sussex and author of Vectors of Memory

Paul Davies, theoretical physicist and Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London

Avtar Brah, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Birkbeck College, London University

Brian Butterworth, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London

John Searle, Professor of Philosophy, University of California and one of only two people in the world to invent an argument, the Chinese Room Argument, which destroys the plausibility of the idea of conscious machines

Colin Tudge, writer, journalist and research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy

Lynda Birkebiologist, teacher at Lancaster and Warwick Universities, and previously worked for 7 years in animal behaviour at the Open University

Roger Scruton, novelist, philosopher and former Professor at Birkbeck College, London

Lady Antonia Fraser, historian, writer and author of biographies of Mary Queen of Scots, Cromwell and Charles II

Melanie Phillips, columnist on The Sunday Times and currently working on a book about The Sex Change State

Charles Simonyi, Chair of Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University and author of Unweaving The Rainbow: Science, Delusion and The Appetite For Wonder

Michael Howard, formerly Regius Professor of History, Oxford University and joint editor of the new Oxford History of the Twentieth Century