Prof. Dr. Henk te Velde is Professor of Dutch History at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

He has a wide range of research interests including the history of political eloquence and debate; political culture and legitimacy; and national identity.

Recent publications include ‘Honour and reason: competing ideals of debating in nineteenth-century Europe, Parliaments, Estates and Representation 44:1 (2024) 21-33 and Civic continuities in an age of revolutionary change: Europe and the Americas, c.1750-1850. Palgrave Studies in Political History (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan 2023) edited with Judith Pollmann.

He is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Political History.

Dr. Hagen Schulz-Forberg is associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

His research interests focus on transnational history, global history, intellectual history, European history, European integration, travel and tourism, historiography, and cultural history.

Recent publications include ‘Constitutionalism as practice’ European Journal of Legal Studies 15:2 (2024) 109-126; ‘The inequalities of progress: Jean-Baptiste Say’s theory of capitalism and the entrepreneur’, in: E. Nokkala and J. Gerlings (ed.), The Process of Enlightenment: Essays by and inspired by Hans Erich Bödeker (Liverpool University Press 2024).

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Political History.