Dr John Adamson: Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, a former editor of The History of Parliament Trust, and author of many studies on the nobility and the English Revolution.

Dr Ian Archer: Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and former VPO tutor. Author of The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London.

Mr John Ashdown: Head of the Conservation Department, Oxford City Council, and author.

Dr David Blair: Lecturer at the University of Kent, former VPO Director. Expert on English prose and poetry from Shakespeare to the Romantics.

Professor Julia Briggs: Professor of English and Women's Studies, De Montfort University. Author of This Stage-World: English Literature and its background, 1588-1625.

Miss Katherine Duncan-Jones: Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Author of Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.

Dr Barbara Everett: Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Author of Auden; Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedies and Poets in their Time.

Dr Steven Gunn: Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Author of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk-, Early Tudor Government 1485-1558 and many articles on Tudor politics.

Dr Christopher Haigh: Student (ie Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford. Author of English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors; Elizabeth I; and editor of The Reign of Elizabeth I.

Professor Emrys Jones: Fellow of New College, Oxford, Author of Scenic Form in Shakespeare; Origins of Shakespeare and The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse.

Dr Diarmaid MacCulloch: Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. Author of (among others) The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603 and most recently the prize-winning Thomas Cranmer.

Dr Jeremy Maule: Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and former VPO tutor. Expert on early Stuart literature, politics and society.

Professor Christopher Ricks: Professor of English Literature at Boston University. Author of Milton's Grand Style; TS. Eliot and Prejudice; The Force of Poetry and Tennyson,

Professor Conrad Russell: Professor of History, King's College London. Author of The Crisis of Parliaments; Parliaments and English Politics 1621-1629; The Causes of the English Civil War; and The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637-42. A hereditary peer.

Dr Nigel Smith: Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Author of A Collection of Ranter Writings from the Seventeenth Century and, most recently, Literature and Revolution in England 1640-1660.

Sir Keith Thomas: President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and former President of the British Academy. Author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World.

Dr Jenny Wormald: Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. Author of several books on early modern Scotland (among them Court, Kirk, Community: Scotland 1470-1625) and many articles on James VI and I.

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