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David Hargreaves Author & Editor

David Hargreaves was born in 1959 and studied history at Worcester College, Oxford. He became a history teacher, working first at Stamford School and then, for nearly thirty years, at Westminster School, where he was head of the sixth form and a boarding housemaster. Since 2014, he has divided his time between writing and running his education consultancy, DHC London. He lives in North London. David's other writings include Bismarck and German Unification (Macmillan, 1991) and a novel, Under The Table (Unbound, 2018), as well as articles on a range of subjects for national newspapers and periodicals. Margaret-Louise O'Keeffe was born in 1951. After reading English at Girton College, Cambridge, she completed a two-year MA in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her research there led to the redating of the Lorenzo Monaco altarpiece in the National Gallery. After teaching at various schools and universities, she was Deputy Head at Princethorpe College, near Rugby, until 2007. Since then, she has worked as a freelance lecturer giving talks on literature and art history. Margaret-Louise appeared on both University Challenge and Mastermind.