...Past President of the British Association for Romantic Studies. Alan Rawes is Lecturer in Romanticism in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. His publications include Byron s Poetic Experimentation (2000), English Romanticism and the Celtic...

...violence, law and lived religion in eighteenth-century Maine. Julian Thomas is Professor of Archaeology in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. His research is principally concerned with the Neolithic archaeology of Britain and north-west Europe,...

...mid-seventeenth-century 'intelligencer', Samuel Hartlib. He currently holds a temporary teaching fellowship in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. Matthew Hill is Associate Professor of Music at Goshen College in Indiana, where he teaches piano,...