Wayne Cocroft is a Senior Investigator with Historic England and leads on 20th-century military heritage. He undertaken numerous surveys of recent military sites and has published on the archaeology of gunpowder and explosives manufacture, the Cold War, and the archaeology of rocketry. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.
John Schofield is Cathedral Archaeologist for St Paul’s Cathedral. He worked at the Museum of London from 1974 until 2008, and is now a freelance archaeologist and architectural historian. He has written widely on the archaeology and building history of London and European towns, with several well-received books: The building of London from the Conquest to the Great Fire (3rd ed, 1999); Medieval London houses (2nd ed, 2003), [with Alan Vince] Medieval towns (2005), St Paul’s Cathedral before Wren (2011) and London 1100–1600: the archaeology of a capital city (2011). His next book will be on the historic waterfront of the City of London.
Catrina Appleby has been the Publications Officer for the Council for British Archaeology since 2006, managing the publication of over 40 titles ranging from the Mesolithic to the First World War. She has worked on a variety of survey and excavation projects, as well as managing both county and national Historic Environment Records. She has been involved in community archaeology in the York area for over fifteen years and has published two local history books with community groups. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.