Tim Ryder, BSc (Hons) MA

I have a lifelong interest in ecological issues. I hold a BSc (Hons) in Ecological Science from the University of Edinburgh, and have written a book on green careers (Working with the Environment; Vacation Work Publications 1996).

Published indexes:
David Attenborough and Colin Butfield, Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness (John Murray Press, 2025)

My degrees in Ecological Science and Human Geography included substantial coverage of environmental science.

My degree in Ecological Science included substantial coverage of evolutionary zoology. I have a particular interest in the works of Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins.

I hold an MA (with Distinction) in Human Geography from the University of Leeds.

Published indexes:
Ian Klinke, Life, Earth, Colony: Friedrich Ratzel’s Necropolitical Geography (University of Michigan Press, 2023)
Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2025)

I have a particular interest in the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust.

Published indexes:
Jonathan Freedland, The Traitors Circle: The Rebels against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them (John Murray Press, 2025)
Natalie Livingstone, The Nuremberg Women: At the Trial That Brought the Nazis to Justice (John Murray Press, 2026)

Published indexes:
Lubaaba Al-Azami, Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World (John Murray Press, 2024)
Giles Milton, Empire at the Edge of the World: Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic (John Murray Press, forthcoming)

Published indexes:
Paul Knox, Lost London: From Crystal Palace to Heston Airport, a History in 25 Missing Buildings (Yale University Press, 2026)

I have a lifelong interest in Germany and its history. I am a former commissioning editor for guidebooks to Germany at Lonely Planet, and have also contributed to The Rough Guide to Germany.

I have a lifelong interest in Japan, which I visit regularly.

I have a strong interest in British and American popular music, especially from the 1960s and the 1970s, including the Beatles, the Clash, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones and Richard Thompson.

Published indexes:
Bill White, Song to the Wizard: The Musical Odyssey of Tony Williams (self-published, forthcoming)

I have a strong interest in twentieth-century literature, especially Alan Garner, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, John le Carré, Primo Levi, Henry Miller, George Orwell and Jean-Paul Sartre.