Steven King is a modern British historian with primary research interests in the period from 1750 to the present. He is best known as an historian of welfare, writing on topics such as regional welfare regimes, the agency of poor people and welfare claimants, advocacy for the poor, and the particular experiences of the sick and disabled under the British welfare system from 1601.Professor King joined Nottingham Trent University in 2020. He has previously held posts at the University of Leicester, Oxford Brookes University, the University of Central Lancashire and the Institute of Historical Research.

Steven Taylor, University College Dublin, is a historian of health, medicine, and welfare with a focus on drinking culture and substance use amongst the Irish communities of London and New York. He has previously taught at the University of Kent (Lecturer in the History of Medicine) and University of Leicester (Teaching Fellow) where his modules have focused on medicine, health, disability, and welfare from the eighteenth century.