SIMON BURROWS Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Leeds University, UK FRANCOIS CROUZET Emeritus Professor of History, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, France MARIANNE CZISNIK PhD Graduate, University of Edinburgh, UK MARTIN DAUNTON Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, UK PAUL KENNEDY J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, USA ROGER KNIGHT Visiting Professor of Naval History at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich, UK ANDREW LAMBERT Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, UK MARK PHILP Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK GEOFFREY QUILLEY Curator of Maritime Art at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK NICHOLAS A. M. RODGER Anderson Research Fellow of the National Maritime Museum and Professor of Naval History at the University of Exeter, UK