Toni Weller is a Visiting Research Fellow in History at De Montfort University, UK. She is an author of numerous books, articles and book chapters on the theory of information history, women and information, Victorian information culture and the history of the surveillance state.

Alistair Black is Professor Emeritus in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, but lives and researches in the UK. He has published extensively, over many years, on the history of information management and libraries.

Bonnie Mak is a historian of ancient, medieval, and modern information practices. She is associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, and author of How the Page Matters (2011).

Laura Skouvig is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has co-edited Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era. The Eyes and Ears of Power (2021) and has written about information and surveillance in absolutist Denmark.