Pol Dalmau is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. A historian of modern Spain and its connections with the wider world, he received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of Press, Politics and National Identities in Catalonia (2018) and one of the editors of Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era: A Global Perspective (2021).

Jorge Luengo is a Tenure Track Professor of Modern History at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He has published extensively on modern Spanish history and is the author of Una sociedad conyugal: las élites de Valladolid en el espejo de Magdeburgo en el siglo XIX (2014).