Stephen Boardman is Lecturer in Scottish History in the Department of Scottish History, University of Edinburgh. He was previously Mackie Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen, and has held the Glenfiddich Research Fellowship at St Andrews. He is the author of The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III (2007).

Julian Goodare is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh. He is an Associate Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.