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Malcolm Airs is Professor of Conservation and the Historic Environment at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He was the founding president of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and has published extensively on both architectural history and historic conservation. He is the author of The Tudor & Jacobean Coutry House (1995) and Tudor and Jacobean in the ‘Buildings of Britain’ series (1982). Joseph S. Block is a professor in the Liberal Studies Department at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. Currently he is serving as president of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. He is the author of Factional Politics and the English Reformation, 1520–1540 (1993) and is one of the contributing-editors of State, Sovereigns and Society in Early Modern England (1998). Lesley B. Cormack is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include history of geography in early modern England, images of empire, and the social context of the scientific revolution. She is the author of Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580–1620 (1997) and has recently co-edited Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel (2003). Peter Cunich lectures in European history at the University of Hong Kong. He is currently working on a financial history ... log in or subscribe to read full text