Lawrence Eliot Klein

Lawrence Eliot Klein is an historian and fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Klein is a specialist in the cultural history of eighteenth-century Britain and particularly ideas and practices associated with the concept of politeness.

Robert Wagner (chemist)

Dr. Robert Wagner was an industrial chemist who became an S.D. and Gestapo officer in Vienna, Austria, during the Second World War. He was the figure behind the "Von Pott Group", organised by the sculptor Lisa von Pott, to spy on anyone suspected of

Léonie Villard

Léonie Villard (1890-1962) was a French literary critic and professor at the Université de Lyon. She was the first woman to be a professor of literature at a French university. In 1917 she received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book, Jane Austen

Bunny Jacob

Bernard "Bunny" Jacob was a Jewish businessman in Calcutta who was a director of the B.N. Elias and Company trading conglomerate and the last conductor of the Calcutta Symphony Orchestra

Arthur Engel (numismatist)

Arthur Engel (1855-1935) was a French archaeologist and numismatist, a member of the French Society of Numismatics and the Society of Antiquarians. He was also a member of the French Schools in Rome and Athens. With Raymond Surrure (1862–99), he wrote

Pamela Willetts

Pamela Joan Willetts FSA was an English musicologist and the deputy keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum. She produced the first catalogue since 1816 of the manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London, an organisation of which she was a

Lawrence Campe

Lawrence Campe was a draper's merchant and citizen of the City of London who gave money to build almshouses in "Fryan Barnett". The Lawrence Campe Almshouses at Friern Barnet Lane, Whetstone, are grade II listed buildings with Historic England. After his

Martin Myrone

Martin Myrone is lead curator, British art to 1800 at the Tate Gallery

Cuthbert Graham

Cuthbert Graham was a journalist, historian, author and poet known for his works about the topography of Scotland and his column in The Press and Journal as the "North-east Muse". Graham wrote two volumes in Robert Hale's Portrait of series. His Aberdeen

James Petersen (anthropologist)

James B. "Jim" Petersen was an American anthropologist and archaeologist working in the Brazilian Amazon. He was chair of the department of anthropology at the University of Vermont. He was known for his work on Indian dark earth that demonstrated that

Margaret Leshikar-Denton

Margaret E. "Peggy" Leshikar-Denton is an archaeologist specialising in underwater archaeology, and director of the Cayman Islands National Museum