Linda Colley

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1. E. J. Hobsbawm

   Author of The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Captain Swing

2. Linda Colley

   Author of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History, Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850

3. John Brewer

   Author of The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783

4. Roy Porter

   Author of English Society in the Eighteenth Century, Second Edition, London: A Social History

5. E.P. Thompson

   Author of Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

6. Raymond Williams

   Author of Culture and Society: 1780-1950, The Country and the City

7. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

8. Peter Linebaugh

   Author of The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

9. David Cannadine

   Author of Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

10. Douglas Hay

    Author of Albion's fatal tree : crime and society in eighteenth-century England

11. Benedict Anderson

    Author of Imagined Communities

12. Christopher Hill

    Author of The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

13. Asa Briggs

    Author of Victorian Cities

14. Paul Langford

    Author of A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783

15. J. G. A. Pocock

    Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

16. Gordon S. Wood

    Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution

17. Amanda Vickery

    Author of The Gentleman's Daughter

18. Leonore Davidoff

    Author of Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850

19. Mark Kishlansky

    Author of A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714

20. Rhys Isaac

    Author of The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790