Kate Williams is a historian and broadcaster. A specialist in modern history, royal and constitutional affairs, she's Professor of Modern History at Reading University. Kate has appeared often on BBC News, BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News, ITV News, Channel 5 News and Good Morning Britain.

She's also been on panel shows including The Quizeum, would I Lie To You, Hous of Games and Insert Name Here. She's won celebrity mastermind, talked on The Great british Back Off and has been part of Pointless Celebrities and Celebrity Antiquers Road Trip.

She is a NYT bestselling author and her books include Becoming Queen, The Pleasures of Men and Rival Queens.

Jo Turner was born with a passion for books and has had the great fortune to build a career doing what she loves: crafting knowledge and ideas into beautiful, accessible books for audiences around the world.

She is the great granddaughter of a gardener from East Sussex, the granddaughter of a woman who grew and preserved fruit and vegetables to feed her large family, and the daughter of a passionate flower gardener and jam maker. She lives on fifty acres of native bush and battles the heat of long summers growing fruit and vegetables.

Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University.