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The British Library is the largest library in the world. The collection includes over 150 million items in many languages, including manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000BC.

Roo Lewis is a fashion and advertising photographer. His clients include VICE, Getty, Topshop, Audi and Sony. Growing up in Dorset he was surrounded by nature and now chooses to base much of his personal work on exploring the subject. When not shooting for clients, Roo can be found in the darkroom of his North London studio printing his latest projects. www.roolewis.com

Llilian Llanes is the founding director of Cuba’s principal contemporary art museum, the Wilfredo Lam Center. A former art history professor at the University of Havana, she has written numerous articles on third-world art, a  subject that still draws her to international conferences. From 1984 to 1999 she organized six Havanna Biennial exhibitions, attracting and displaying art from around the world. She is the author of The Houses of Old Cuba (1998 Thames and Hudson).

Douglas Luhanko has a passion for denim and indigo. Both he and Kerstin Neumüller run Second Sunrise, a raw denim menswear boutique in Stockholm. He also manufactures jeans in his own company Blue Highway.

Byung-Hi Lim & Byung-Soon Lim are sisters and together with their mother, Boo Mee Ja Lim and aunt Im Kee Sun, they run the Arirang Restaurant in Stockholm. The Arirang opened back in 1975 and was the first restaurant of its kind in Scandinavia. The ambition at the restaurant is to prepare everyday Korean food at its best. In 2009 they published the prize-winning cookbook Korean Food.

Sara Lewis is the author of numerous books, including the best selling Hamlyn All Colour Slow Cooker Cookbook. Her most recent books are Cooking from the Garden and Chocolate Success both for the Women’s Institute and Mini Pies for Love Food. She was cookery editor for Practical Parenting magazine for a number of years and now contributes regularly to Slimming World magazine. Sara lives in Sussex and is happiest cooking for family and friends.

Alex Law has been working as an upholsterer since the late 1980’s. He has followed the traditional path from apprentice, through journeyman and on to master upholsterer. Throughout his career Alex has worked in high-end craft workshops as well as developing a deeper understanding of the craft through teaching upholstery at London Metropolitan University alongside day-to-day bench work. He has been awarded recognition for this work from several trade organisations. He now runs the Kent School of Upholstery, based in Faversham, Kent, as well as designing and making collections of upholstery for various clients.

Rosemary Lord has spent over 20 years working in Los Angeles, acting in theater, films, and television as well as working as a senior publicist for Columbia Pictures. She has written for a variety of high profile magazines in the U.S. and Europe, fitting in the odd film and television script, as well as a travel book and two novels. She is the author of Los Angeles Then and Now.

Ben Lebus has always been passionate about food and learnt to cook from his father, who ran an Italian restaurant for a number of years. At university, he quickly saw that his flatmates did not share his knowledge of cooking, and their repertoire consisted of pasta with pesto. That was it; he decided to devise a list of recipes that would feed 4 people for under £10, wanting to show that it was possible to cook beautiful, healthy, delicious food on a budget. He launched MOB Kitchen three months after he graduated. The ‘thrifty home-cook’s unlikely hero’ according to the Daily Mail, Ben has harnessed a strategic group of supporters and collaborators, including sponsoring university sports team kit around the UK, collaborating with Waitrose, the Co-op, Sainsbury’s and dating app Bumble.  MOB Kitchen has 180K+ followers on Facebook and 250K+ followers on Instagram.

As a practising embroiderer, Alison Larkin lectures on various aspects of needlework. She regularly runs classes and workshops. She has won many awards and written for the journals Costume and The Journal of Dress History.