Dr Kasia Tee is a historian based at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Director of the Centre for Museum Cultures. Here’s a programme she made for the BBC Radio 4 about the ‘pleasure culture’ of WW2, and an essay she wrote for Vittles about Polish food shops. Her cat is called Phil.

Dan Hancox is a journalist, writing and editing for The Guardian, Financial Times, LRB and others. His latest book is called Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World, and the one before that was Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime. His cat is called Kimchi.