MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dr David Smale served in the Royal Marines and Lothian and Borders Police. He studied at the Open University and the University of Edinburgh and is presently researching various aspects of the history of policing in Scotland.

On page 14 he looks at the use of spies as a crucial part of the Georgian government’s response to the spasm of unrest and violence known as the ‘Radical War’ of 1820.

Vinod Moonesinghe read mechanical engineering at the University of Westminster and worked in Sri Lanka in the tea machinery and motor spares industries and the railways before turning to journalism and to writing history. He has lectured at the Sri Lanka National Archives. At present he serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of the CeylonGerman Technical Training Institute.

In this issue (page 30), he tells the story of William Clerihew, who found fame as an inventor and coffee-farmer in 19th-century Ceylon.

Alasdair Roberts is a highland writer in retirement from Aberdeen University. He is a former editor of The Innes Review, the journal of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association.

On page 22 he explores the extensive cave networks of the Hebrides used by several high-profile Jacobites in the frenzied months after their defeat at Culloden.