[simple_tooltip content=’Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award… ‘]Sebastian Barry[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Jonathan Bate is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University… ‘]Jonathan Bate[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Octavius Black is a highly successful British entrepreneur, philanthropist and author…’]Octavius Black[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’William Boyd was born in Ghana in 1952. He is the author of seventeen bestselling novels and five collections of short stories…’]William Boyd[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Susie Boyt FRSL is the author of seven acclaimed novels and the much loved memoir My Judy Garland Life…’]Susie Boyt[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and founder of the Women in the World summits. Between 1979 and 2001…’]Tina Brown[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Jessie Burton is the author of the Sunday Times number one and New York Times bestsellers The Miniaturist …’]Jessie Burton[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Joanne Cash is a human rights activist and policy advisor. A former barrister and one of the UK’s most senior businesswomen…’]Joanne Cash[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Brian is the lead of the hit HBO show “Succession”, for which he won a Golden Globe in 2020…’]Brian Cox[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Nicholas Cullinan took up his position as the Director of the National Portrait Gallery in spring 2015…’]Nicholas Cullinan[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal…’]William Dalrymple[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Wyre is a BBC Correspondent and Presenter, back in Wales for now after a career as a foreign correspondent’]Wyre Davies[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and biographer. She read Classics at Oxford before winning a scholarship…’]Daisy Dunn[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Andrea Elliott is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who has documented the lives of poor Americans…’]Andrea Elliott[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Aindrea Emelife is an art historian, writer, independent curator, author and presenter from London…’]Aindrea Emelife[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford and a contributing writer at The New Yorker…’]Merve Emre[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Edward Enninful is editor-in-chief of British Vogue and the European Editorial Director for Vogue…’]Edward Enninful[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Inaya Folarin Iman is a writer, broadcast journalist and social campaigner…’]Inaya Folarin Iman[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’R.F. (Roy) Foster is Emeritus Professor of Irish History at Oxford and of Irish History and Literature at Queen Mary University of London. ..’]Roy Foster[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University…’]Peter Frankopan[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent…’]Jonathan Freedland[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Mark Galeotti is a long-time Russia-watcher, even though Moscow banned him this year…’]Mark Galeotti[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Michael Gove is the Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath…’]Michael Gove[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Robert Hardman. A national and international journalist for more than 30 years…’]Robert Hardman[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Robert Harris is the author of twelve bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator …’]Robert Harris[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Jonathan Haslam, retired as George F. Kennan Professor, Institute for Advanced Study…’]Jonathan Haslam[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Simon Heffer is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Buckingham….’]Simon Heffer[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Katy Hessel is an art historian, curator, and broadcaster whose commitment to foregrounding women artists…’]Katy Hessel[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Martin Ivens, Editor of The Times Literary Supplement and Bloomberg Opinion columnist…’]Martin Ivens[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Luke Johnson is a director and co-owner of Gail’s bakeries, Brompton Bicycles…’]Luke Johnson[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Susan Jonusas is a historian specialising in crime and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries…’]Susan Jonusas[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Wesley Kerr OBE is a broadcaster, journalist, historian and horticulturist…’]Wesley Kerr[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer…’]Olesya Khromeychuk[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Sam Leith is the literary editor of The Spectator and a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines…’]Sam Leith[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Natalie Livingstone was born and raised in London. She graduated with a first class degree in history from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1998…’]Natalie Livingstone[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Andrea Marcolongo is writer and a literary critic, graduated in Philology at the University of Milan…’]Andrea Marcolongo[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Anne McElvoy is Executive Editor of The Economist and hosts the award-winning Economist Asks talkshow. …’]Anne McElvoy[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Dr Lucasta Miller is a critic and biographer, best known for her influential afterlife study…’]Lucasta Miller[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Simon Sebag Montefiore is a bestselling historian and novelist whose books are published in 48 languages and has won prizes for his fiction and history. ..’]Simon Sebag Montefiore[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Abi Morgan is an award-winning writer, including several Baftas and an Emmy…’]Abi Morgan[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Kate Mosse is a novelist, non fiction writer, playwright and memorist…’]Kate Mosse[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’David gained his medical degree from Manchester University and in 1992 gained his FRCS…’]David Nott[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, anthologist, aphorist, and playwright…’]Ben Okri[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Catherine Ostler is the author of The Duchess Countess, a historical biography published in the UK in 2021 by Simon & Schuster and in the USA this year Atria Books…’]Catherine Ostler[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Yana Peel is the Global Head of Arts, Culture & Communications at Chanel…’]Yana Peel[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Luke Pepera is a writer, broadcaster, anthropologist, and historian specialised in the African past…’]Luke Pepera[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Louise Perry is a columnist at the New Statesman, a features writer for the Daily Mail…’]Louise Perry[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute…’]Serhii Plokhy[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Albert Read oversees Condé Nast in Europe – incorporating the titles Vogue, Vanity Fair…’]Albert Read[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Andrew Roberts read Modern History at Caius College, Cambridge, from where he is a PhD. He has written over a twenty books including Salisbury…’]Andrew Roberts[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Antonia Romeo became the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice in January 2021…’]Antonia Romeo[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Julia is a leading UK psychotherapist. At St Marys Hospital Paddington she established the post of psychotherapist for Paediatrics…’]Julia Samuel[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels…’]Elif Shafak[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’The Hon. Radosław (Radek) Sikorski is a member of the European Parliament for Poland…’]Radek Sikorski[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’HM KING SIMEON II OF THE BULGARIANS, 85, the last surviving WW2 head of state…’]HM King Simeon[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Yana Sofovich was born in the USSR (now Moldova near the Ukrainian border)…’]Yana Sofovich[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Jamie Susskind is author of The Digital Republic (2022) and the award-winning bestseller Future Politics…’]Jamie Susskind[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Alice Thomson is an associate editor, weekly columnist, and interviewer for The Times…’]Alice Thomson[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Camilla Tominey is the Associate Editor of The Daily Telegraph, covering politics and Royals. During her 20 year career…’]Camilla Tominey[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Jake Wallis Simons is an award-winning novelist and journalist, and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle…’]Jake Wallis Simons[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Flora Yukhnovich is acclaimed for paintings in which she adopts the language of Rococo…’]Flora Yukhnovich[/simple_tooltip]

[simple_tooltip content=’Author, political journalist, historian. Founding editor-in-chief of the Russian independent news TV-channel, Dozhd …’]Mikhail Zygar[/simple_tooltip]