John Carter Wood is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany. He is the author of Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement (2004); The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace (2012); and This Is Your Hour: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe (2019). He has written several articles and essays on the topics of crime, violence, media, gender, and intellectual history.