Claire Norton is Reader at St Mary's University, London. She is interested in how forms of past-talk are used to imagine, legitimise and contest identities, political spaces, institutions and discourses. Her recent books include Plural Pasts: power, identity, and the Ottoman sieges of Nagykanizsa (2017) and Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2017).

Mark Donnelly is Principal Lecturer at St Mary's University, London. He works in the fields of history theory, public history, memory and contemporary cultural politics. He co-edited Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities (2017), and co-wrote Doing History (2011) with Claire Norton.