Contributors

William Cook is an Anglo-German journalist based in London. He has been reporting from Germany for over thirty years for numerous British publications, including The Independent, The Spectator and Condé Nast Traveller. He also writes regularly for the travel pages of The Telegraph and since 2021 he has been the theatre critic of The Oldie magazine. The Fifteenth Man is his debut novel.

Francis Collins is the director of the National Institute of Health in the United States, and former head of the Human Genome Project. His most recent book, The Language of God, was a New York Times bestseller.

Jonathan Conlin was born in New York and studied history at Oxford University, followed by graduate work at the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge. He has taught modern British history at the University of Southampton since 2006. His books include The Nation's Mantelpiece: a history of the National Gallery, Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Making of the Modern City, and a biography of Adam Smith.

Bill Connington is an actor, writer and Alexander Technique teacher. He has devoted his career to helping performers, including Broadway actors, Metropolitan Opera singers, and renowned instrumentalists, manage their art through managing themselves. The former chairman of the board of the American Center for the Alexander Technique, Bill is a lecturer in acting at the Yale School of Drama and has taught performers at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, the Juilliard School, and the Actors Studio MFA Program.

Molly Conisbee is a social historian and visiting research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. She has a PhD from the University of Bristol and has spent the last ten years researching the social history of death and mourning. Conisbee is also a bereavement counsellor, has curated walks on the history of death around the country and has written for the Guardian and Ecologist

Kate Collins was born in Cork, Ireland and has spent her career in trade and academic publishing. She studied literature and medieval history at Lancaster University and went on to complete an Master's degree in contemporary literature at the same university. She lives in Oxfordshire

One of our most distinguished historians, Linda Colley is Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has previously taught at Cambridge, Yale and LSE. Her earlier books include Wolfson Prize-winning Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850 and The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
Acts of Union and Disunion was a 15-part BBC Radio 4 series in January 2014.

Professor Andrea Colli is the Professor of Economic History and Head of Department in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management at Bocconi Univesity, Milan, Italy.

Matthew Collin is the author of the critically-acclaimed books Altered State, This is Serbia Calling, The Time of the Rebels and Pop Grenade. He has worked as a correspondent for the BBC and Al Jazeera, and as the editor of The Big Issue, i-D magazine and the Time Out website. He has also written for many newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Observer, Wall Street Journal, The Face, Mixmag and Mojo. He is now researching a new book for Serpent's Tail about electronic dance music culture around the world.

Philip Coggan is a former Economist and Financial Times journalist. In 2009, he was voted Senior Financial Journalist of the Year in the Wincott awards and best communicator in the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. Among his books are The Money MachineThe Economist Guide to Hedge FundsMore: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy and Surviving the Daily Grind.

Leah Hager Cohen is the author of four novels, most recently The Grief of Others (9781846686276), which was longlisted for the Orange Prize, selected as a New York Times Notable Book, and named one of the books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus Reviews. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

Robert Cole works for Reuters Breakingviews, the financial commentary arm of the global news agency. He was previously a leader and obituaries writer for The Times and editor of that newspaper's Tempus investment column.He has lectured in financial journalism at City University, London, since 1995. Earlier in his career wrote for the London Evening Standard and the Independent. He is an experienced occasional broadcaster for Reuters and the BBC. Outside finance, Robert is expert in the study of the British roadside post box.