Alastair J Mann Editor

Daryl Green is Associate Director for Heritage Collections and Co-Director of the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh. Daryl has worked professionally with manuscripts and early printed books at York Minster Library, the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), the University of St Andrews and Oxford. He has published on early Scottish book ownership, the history of science communication and on professional topics such as exhibition theory and image rights. Alastair J. Mann is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Stirling. After a career in book publishing, for three decades Alastair has researched and published widely on the Scottish early modern book, especially on copyright and censorship, including his Saltire prize-winning The Scottish Book Trade, 1500 to 1720 (2000). He is an historian of the politics of the Restoration period and has published the biography King James VII: Duke and King of Scots, 1633-1701 (2014). His work also focuses on Scottish government and parliamentary history in Scotland and Europe from 1200 onwards. In digital humanities he is co-editor of the major online resource The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (2008-19) at http://rps.ac.uk/ and Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust funded Scottish Privy Council Project (2020-24) and co-editor of the Scottish Privy Council Records (1692-1708) (2024), at http://spcr.ac.uk/. Joseph Marshall is Director of Collections Management at the National Library of Scotland. He trained as a rare books librarian and was Head of Special Collections at Edinburgh University Library for five years. His research interests include the writings of King James VI & I and he co-edited the edition published by Ashgate in 2003. His professional interests include digitisation, preservation and metadata. Emily Wingfield is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in Older Scots romance, manuscript culture, and women’s literary culture, with key publications including The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature (2014) and the Saltire-shortlisted Scotland’s Royal Women and European Literary Culture 1424-1587 (2023). She is now working on an Anglophone critical edition and translation of the writings of Mary, Queen of Scots.