Dr Tim Benson is the founder of the Political Cartoon Gallery in central London, and author of numerous books and articles on cartoons, including The Cartoon Century: Modern Britain Through the Eyes of its Cartoonists (2007) and Strube: the World's Most Popular Cartoonist (2004).
Dr Polly Jones is lecturer of Russian at London UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and has written extensively on the Cold-War period, including The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: A Social and Cultural History of Reform in the Khrushchev Era (2005). She is currently writing a book on the Soviet Union after Stalin, entitled Burying Stalin: The Soviet Union between Past and Future, 1953-9
