Contributors

Hashi Mohamed arrived in Britain as a child refugee, and is now a Barrister at No5 Chambers in London. A contributor to the Guardian, The Times and Prospect, he has also explored class and mobility for the BBC. His first book, People Like Us, looked at social mobility and inequality and was also published by Profile. A Home of One's Own is his second book.

Jelmer Mommers is a climate journalist based in Amsterdam. He made world headlines when he uncovered an alarmist climate documentary made by Shell in 1991, and again when he released internal Shell-documents showing the companies' internal research into global warming. Those documents are now being used in court cases against the oil giant worldwide.

Lucy Moore is an author and broadcaster whose work includes the bestselling Maharanis: The Lives & Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Observer, Vogueand Harpers Bazaar, and has presented series for the BBC and Sky.

R. I. Moore was professor emeritus of Medieval History at Newcastle University. His books include The First European Revolution and The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Western Europe 950-1250, which was described by the Guardian as "One of the most influential and controversial books of medieval history of the last twenty years". He died in 2025.

Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He contributes regularly to the Guardian and other newspapers. His book On Roads was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and, together with his previous book, Queuing for Beginners, received unanimous critical acclaim.

Martin Moran grew up in Denver, lives in New York City where he is an actor and writer, and has appeared in many Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. He performs a one-man play of The Tricky Part all over the world.

Elaine Morgan was born in 1920, and after studying at Oxford University, worked as a television writer. In 1972, she published The Descent of Woman suggesting that human evolution had an aquatic origin. This idea was attacked at first by scientists but the book became an international bestseller. In the decades since, Morgan's aquatic ape hypothesis has gained widespread support. She died in 2013.

Llewelyn Morgan teaches Classics at Oxford where he is a Fellow of Brasenose College. He has been to Afghanistan several times and has written a number of pieces on the country ancient and modern.

Polly Morland is an award-winning documentary maker, and has directed and produced for the BBC, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel. She is author of the widely-acclaimed book, The Society of Timid Souls.

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Dr John Mittermeier is the founder and director of the Search for Lost Birds at American Bird Conservancy. He led his first expedition to find a lost bird nearly twenty years ago and ever since has been traveling to the most remote corners of the planet to look for and learn about these species.

Mittermeier founded the Search for Lost Birds in 2021 after joining American Bird Conservancy, and since its inception the initiative has resulted in multiple rediscoveries and coverage in hundreds of news articles around the world including the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, and New Scientist among others. He is based in the US.

Ian Morris is Willard Professor of Classics, Professor of History and a fellow of the Archaeology Centre at Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of Why the West Rules – For Now and has appeared on a number of television networks, including the History Network and PBS.

Dave Morris was born in Buckinghamshire in 1957. A graduate of Oxford University, where he read Physics, he has had his work published in over a dozen languages. As well as writing novels and interactive fiction, he has designed videogames and, as a mentor in the American Film Institute digital content lab, has worked with partners like NBC and Microsoft to create new forms of entertainment combining traditional storytelling with interactivity. His graphic novel Mirabilis: Year of Wonders, which first appeared in Random House's comic The DFC, was published simultaneously in print and digital editions in 2011. He lives with his wife Roz in south-west London.

Oliver Morton is a senior editor at The Economist and an award winning writer. He is the author of Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planetand The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World.

Hugh Moss' father was one of London's leading twentieth-century dealers in Asian art. In the early 1960s Hugh joined his father's company, Sydney L. Moss, Ltd, and in 1968 set up his own London gallery. In 1975 he established himself in Hong Kong, representing some of the best Chinese artists working outside mainland China. He has since become a well-known painter and calligrapher, working under his studio name ('The Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat') within the Chinese contemporary ink movement. He is acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts in Chinese snuff bottle, scholarly works of art and modern paintings. He has been married to Blossom Lee Xuemei for more than thirty years and has three grown-up children. He spends most of his time in Hong Kong, but still travels widely.