Robin Bunce is a historian based at Homerton College, Cambridge. He is co-author of Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography (2020, with Samara Linton) and of Renegade: The Life and Times of Darcus Howe (2017, with Paul Field). With Field, he served as historical consultant on the Steve McQueen film Mangrove (2020), and the BBC documentary Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021).
Richard Carr is a Senior Lecturer at the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. He is author of March of the Moderates: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics (2019) and a political biography of Charlie Chaplin (2017).
Krista Cowman is Professor and Head of the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. She has published widely on womens suffrage and on womens political activism in a variety of sites throughout the twentieth century, including Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU) 190418 (2011) and Women in British Politics, c. 19681979 (2010).
Jonathan Davis is Associate Professor in Modern European History and Director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. He is author of a number of books, including The Global 1980s: People, Power and Profit (2019) and The Second Labour Government 19291931: A Reappraisal (2011) and co-editor (with Rohan McWilliam) of Labour and the Left in the 1980s (2018).
Patrick Diamond is Director of the Mile End Institute and Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary University, London. He was previously Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister (200105), and Head of Policy Planning in Ten Downing Street (200910). He is author of a number of books including The British Labour Party in Opposition and Power (2020), The Crosland Legacy: The Future of British Social Democracy (2016) and Endgame for the Centre Left? The Retreat of Social Democracy Across Europe (2016).
Steven Fielding is Professor of Political History at Nottingham University. He is the author and editor of a number of works including The Churchill Myths (with Bill Schwarz and Richard Toye, 2020), Interpreting the Labour Party: Approaches to Labour Politics and History (co-edited with John Callaghan and Steve Ludlam, 2004) and England Arise! The Labour Party and Popular Politics in 1940s Britain (with Peter Thompson and Nick Tiratsoo, 1995). He is currently writing The Labour Party from Callaghan to Corbyn for Polity Books.
Nick Garland is an adviser to a member of the Shadow Cabinet, DPhil candidate in Modern History at the University of Oxford and commissioning editor for Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy.
Andrew Hindmoor is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, editor of Political Studies and associate editor of New Political Economy. He is author of several books including 12 Days that Made Modern Britain (2019) and Whats Left Now? The History and Future of Social Democracy (2018).
Ben Jackson is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and co-editor of Political Quarterly. He is the author of The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland (2020), Equality and the British Left (2007) and co-editor (with Robert Saunders) of Making Thatchers Britain (2012).
Samara Linton is an award-winning freelance writer and content producer who previously worked as a junior doctor in London. She is author of the Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME Mental Health in the UK (2018) and co-author (with Robin Bunce) of Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography (2020).
Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History and Director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. He has published widely on a range of social, cultural and political topics covering Victorian and twentieth-century Britain. His most recent books include Londons West End: Creating the Pleasure District (2020), Labour and the Left in the 1980s (co-edited with Jonathan Davis, 2018) and New Directions in Social and Cultural History (co-edited with Sasha Handley and Lucy Noakes, 2017).
George Morris is a PhD candidate in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and is co-editor of Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy.
Colm Murphy is a Deputy Director of the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University, London, and Past and Present Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research.
Jeremy Nuttall is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Kingston University, London. He is co-editor (with Hans Schattle) of Making Social Democrats, Essays for David Marquand (2018), author of the book Psychological Socialism: The Labour Party and Qualities of Mind and Character (2006) and of articles on British social democracy in leading journals including Historical Journal and English Historical Review.
Glen OHara is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes University. A former schoolteacher and journalist, he is the author of The Politics of Water in Post-War Britain (2017) and Governing Post-War Britain: The Paradoxes of Progress (2012). He is currently principal investigator on an Arts and Humanities Research-funded project on the history of rights of way in England and Wales and is writing a book on the domestic policies of the Blair government for Manchester University Press.
Daisy Payling is a Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Essex working on the Wellcome-funded project Body, Self and Family: Womens Psychological, Emotional and Bodily Health in Britain, c. 19601990. When she is not writing about the history of womens health, she can be found working on her book on local government and grassroots activism in 1980s Sheffield, soon to be published by Manchester University Press.
Karl Pike is a Deputy Director of the Mile End Institute and Lecturer in British Politics and Public Policy at Queen Mary University, London. He has published articles in a number of academic journals, including Political Studies and The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. He is currently working on a book about Labours traditions after the 2010 general election. Prior to academia, he worked as an adviser to the Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary.
Rachel Reeves is the Labour MP for Leeds West and a member of the Shadow Cabinet. She is the author of Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics (2019) and Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon (2016).
Charlotte Lydia Riley is a Lecturer in Twentieth-Century British History at the University of Southampton, specializing in the intersections between foreign and domestic policy, politics and popular culture. Recent works include The Free Speech Wars: How Did We Get Here and Why Does It Matter (editor, 2021) and The winds of change are blowing economically: The Labour Party and British Overseas Development, 1940s1960s in Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect