Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. One of Britain's leading experts in the history of witchcraft, his works include the highly-acclaimed Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans. In 2010, Malcolm was a visiting fellow in North American studies at the Eccles Centre of the British Library, where he conducted research for his book Between Two Worlds. In November 2021, Allen Lane published his most recent book The Ruin of All Witches.

Marion Gibson is Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter. She is the author of seven books on witches in history and literature including: Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999), Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006), Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft (Routledge, 2017) and with Jo Esra Shakespeare’s Demonology (Bloomsbury, 2014). Her latest book Witchcraft A History in Thirteen Trials was published by Simon & Schuster in June 2023.

Naomi Paxton is a performer, researcher and broadcaster. She is an Associate Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London; a Honorary Fellow of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Naomi is also part of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee for The Magic Circle. She has published widely, including two collections of suffrage plays with Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, and in 2018 her monograph Stage Rights! The Actresses' Franchise League, Activism and Politics 1908-1958 was published by the University of Manchester Press. Naomi performs in comedy, cabaret, magic and variety shows as her character Ada Campe and has won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Show (NATYS) and was shortlisted most recently for the UK Pantomime Awards. In 2014 she became a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and is a regular presenter for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme and Arts and Ideas podcast.