Dr Catherine Burke is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at the University of Cambridge. She is an historian engaged with cultural and material histories of educational contexts and of childhood in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is currently the editor of the Sources and Interpretations section of the History of Education journal.

Peter Cunningham is an historian and educationist at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, teaching Educational Studies in the Faculty of Education as Senior Lecturer from 2001 to 2008, and is now a member of the Faculty's team for teacher professional development in Kazakhstan. He has published books and articles on the social and cultural history of education, with particular interests in school curricula and pedagogies, teachers and their professional identities, higher education and educational policy development. He has researched and written on educational innovators and progressives, and is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Dr Jeremy Howard is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. He is particularly concerned with the representation, spaces and experiences of schooling, and grapples with the socio-political and pedagogic values that these may entail or involve. He has published numerous papers and books on the topic, as well as extensively on central and east European art, architecture and design.