Markus Mösslang is a fellow at the German Historical Institute London and editor of the multi-volume edition British Envoys to Germany. He specializes in the study of Anglo-German relations, the history of diplomacy, and nineteenth-century German and British history. Previously he was a research assistant at the University of Munich.

Torsten Riotte was educated at the universities of Cologne and Cambridge. After five years as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute London he is currently lecturer in Modern European History at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His special area of interest is the history of European elites during the long nineteenth century. He is currently working on a study of European courts in exile.