Arthur Aughey is Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull. His previous publications include Politics of Northern Ireland: Beyond the Belfast Agreement (2005) Nationalism, Devolution and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State (2001) and Northern Ireland Politics, edited with Duncan Morrow (1996). John Oakland was a Senior Lecturer in English at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His previous publications include British Civilization (2010), American Civilization co-edited with David C. Mauk (2009), British Civilization: A Student’s Dictionary (2003) and Contemporary Britain: A Survey With Texts (2001).