Patron [noun]
a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organisation, or cause.
Claire Fuller
Claire Fuller is the author of five novels. Her latest, The Memory of Animals is now out in paperback and her previous, Unsettled Ground, won the Costa Novel Award 2021 and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Claire’s first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize, her second, Swimming Lessons was shortlisted for the Encore prize, and her third, Bitter Orange was on the International Dublin Literary Award longlist.
Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Claire also writes flash fiction and short stories and she won the BBC Opening Lines short story competition and the Royal Academy / Pin Drop prize.
Emma Griffin
Emma is a professor of Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of five books, including Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution (Yale University Press, 2013) and (most recently) Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (Yale University Press, 2020). She is currently writing a global history of industrialisation for Penguin Press.
She has performed active citizenship for the profession through her extensive editorial work for journals (History: The Journal of the Historical Association, Cultural and Social History and The Historical Journal) and through service to learned societies, most notably the Royal Historical Society, of which she was President 2020-2024.
She had made regular appearances on radio and television, written and produced a number of BBC Radio 4 documentaries, and writes for a wide range of publications aimed at non-academic audiences (TLS, Guardian, History Today, Literary Review, BBC History).
Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Sieghart is a journalist, broadcaster and author of the bestselling book The Authority Gap: Why We Still Take Women Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It.
She was at The Times for nearly 20 years, as Assistant Editor, Comment Editor, Arts Editor and political columnist, and has also worked at the FT, The Economist and The Independent. She presents programmes on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service and has frequently appeared on Question Time, Any Questions, Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show, The Today Programme and Woman’s Hour.
She researched the book as a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and is currently a Visiting Professor at King’s College London. She chaired the Social Market Foundation think tank and is a director of Guardian Media Group, which owns The Guardian and The Observer. She was chair of the judges for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022.
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