Adrian R. Bell is Chair in the History of Finance at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading. He completed his PhD at the University of Reading (2002) and is the author of The Soldier in Later Medieval England (2013).

Anne Curry is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton. She was President of the Historical Association between 2008 and 2011, and has also been a Vice-president of the Royal Historical Society and editor of the Journal of Medieval History.

Andy King is a Research Fellow in History at the University of Southampton. He completed his PhD at the University of Durham (2001) and edited Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica (1272-1363), Surtees Society ccix (2005). He has also written articles on various aspects of late medieval warfare, the Anglo-Scottish Marches, chronicles and castles, and has co-edited two collections of essays on England and Scotland in the later Middle Ages.

David Simpkin is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading. He completed his PhD at the University of Hull (2007) and is the author of The English Aristocracy at War, from the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn (2008). He has also written various articles and co-edited two collections of essays on themes relating to later medieval warfare and the English gentry. He was winner of the Verbruggen Prize in 2011.