Lyndan Warner is Full Professor in the Department of History at Saint Mary's University in Halifax on the Atlantic coast of Canada. Her research spans the disciplines of the history of the family, law, and visual culture in the early modern period. She is Burghley Visiting Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge in Michaelmas 2024.

Gabriella Erdélyi is Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities (HUN-REN RCH), Institute of History, Budapest. Erdélyi's 'Integrating Families', Hungarian Academy of Sciences Momentum project 2017-2022, explored stepfamily dynamics in East Central Europe. She is editor of the series 'Hungarian Family Histories: Studies' and co-editor of the Hungarian Historical Review.