Peter J. Beck is Emeritus Professor of International History at Kingston University, UK. His publications include International Football as Cultural Diplomacy: Britain versus the Dictators in the 1930s (2025), Using History, making British Policy: the Treasury and the Foreign Office, 1950-76 (2006), and Presenting History: Past and Present (2012).

Matthew Taylor is Professor of History and Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His publications include Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45 (2020) and World of Sport: Transnational and Connected Histories (2025).