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Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton PC, KC is a British Labour politician and barrister. Falconer became the Lord Chancellor and the first Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs in 2003 under Prime Minister Tony Blair, and would go
Matt Cook is Jonathan Cooper Professor in the History of Sexuality at Oxford University. He is a cultural historian specializing in British queer history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His books include London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885
Martin Rowson is a multi-award winning cartoonist, writer, illustrator, ranter, performer and poet. His work over the past 40 years has appeared in almost every publication you can think of apart from Private Eye and The Sun. A former chair
Kate Dossett is an award-winning historian of the twentieth century United States with broad interests in cultural and political history and specializations in African American History, Gender histories and histories of the African Diaspora. She has been teaching and researching
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the
Andy Phippen is a Professor of Online Harms at the Bournemouth University and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Suffolk in the UK He has specialised in the use of ICTs in social contexts and the intersection with
Professor of Iranian History and Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews; Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute. In 2016 Professor Ansari was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Professor Maggie Snowling is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow, St. John’s College. She is also professionally qualified as a clinical psychologist. She is Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Professor Lane is Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. His research is about how energy flow shapes the broad sweep of evolution, focusing on the origin of life and the improbable emergence of complex cells.