Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Enterprise at the University of South Australia and Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of numerous historiography books, including Fifty Key Thinkers on History (three editions), History goes to the Movies (2007), History as Wonder (2018), and most recently, with Anne Martin, Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography (2022).

Daniel Woolf is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he served for ten years as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. He is the author or editor of several books on the history of historical writing and on early modern British cultural history, including most recently A Concise History of History (2019), and has published essays in such journals as History and Theory, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Past and Present, and The American Historical Review.