Dr Lisa Peters is an independent scholar of the Welsh and border area press with a doctorate from the University of Wales. She is the author of Politics, Publishing and Personalities: Wrexham Newspapers, 1848-1914 (2011), the co-editor of Print. Politics and the Provincial Press in Modern Britain (2019) and Transient Print (2023), and her work has appeared in Publishing History and Welsh History Review. She is currently working on a chapter on 'The Border Magazine' for the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine.

Dr Andrew Hobbs is the author of A Fleet Street in Every Town: The provincial press in England, 1855-1900 (Open Book, 2018), which won the 2019 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals book prize, and editor of The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist (Open Book, 2022 and 2026). He is a retired journalism lecturer and former newspaper journalist, interested in how newspapers and magazines expressed a sense of place.