Sir Hew Strachan is currently Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, a member of the National Committee for the Centenary of the First World War, and a Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He is the author of numerous works of military history, including a magisterial first volume of a history of the First World War, To Arms.
Lizzie MacGregor is the Assistant Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library, and editor of several popular anthologies co-published by the SPL and Polygon, including Handfast: Scottish poems for weddings and affirmations, Lament: Scottish poems for funerals and consolation; and Luckenbooth, an anthology of Edinburgh poetry.
Yvonne McEwen is currently the Project Director of Scotland's War 1914-1919 at the Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict at the University of Edinburgh. Her study In the Company of Nurses: The British Army Nursing Service in the Great War was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2014.