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Andrew Blick is professor of politics and contemporary history in the department of political economy, King’s College London, where he co-directs the Centre for British Democracy. He is the author of books including Electrified Democracy and Beyond Magna Carta. He is director of the Constitution Society, an educational charity for the promotion of knowledge of constitutional issues.

Paul Lashmar is an investigative journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism at City St George’s, University of London. He has taken an interest in the history of slavery since he developed a Channel 4 series on Britain’s slave trade in 1999. Paul has been on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books and lives in Bridport. Paul is the author of history of the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset and their role in the British sugar industry which was based on slavery in Barbados and Jamaica. Spanning 500 years and 18 generations, Drax of Drax Hall is based on painstaking archival research Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.  An unauthorised history of the Drax family. Pluto Books (2025).