Dr Madeleine Pelling is a historian, writer and podcast host, specialising in early modern Britain. Her books include Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Profile Books, 2024) and Pop Enlightenments: The Eighteenth-Century Now (co-edited with Dr Emrys Jones, forthcoming). She holds a PhD from the University of York, and her words have appeared in The Independent, BBC History Magazine, History Today and The Conversation.