Sir John Kevin Curtice is a British political scientist who is currently professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde and senior research fellow at the National Centre for Social Research.

Jonathan Philip Parry is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College. His books include Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party 1867-1875 (1986), The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (1993) and The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe 1830-1886…