Colin Kidd is the Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He taught previously at the University of Glasgow and Queen's University Belfast, and was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1987 to 1994 and again from 2005 to 2019. He is the author of The World of Mr Casaubon: Britain's Wars of Mythography and other books. He has been a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, The Guardian and The New Statesman.