William Arnold Baker [known as Arnold] was born on 15 September 1916 in Sheffield to John Thomas Baker and Sarah J. Baker (née Bell). Baker trained as an electrical engineer, and in 1939 was employed as an ‘Assembler and Tester’. He worked on Range and Direction Finding technology during the Second World War, and c 1941 he was posted to Worth Matravers with the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE). There he was part of a team using the newly invented cavity magnetron to perfect Airborne Intercept radar in night fighters. This team moved to Malvern in May 1942, which became Baker's permanent base. Baker learned to fly aircraft after the Second World War, and was issued with his flying licence by the Royal Aero Club in December 1948. He jointly purchased a share in an RAF-surplus de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth plane, which he used to take a large number of the photographs within the collection between the mid-1950s to mid-1970s. Baker married Marjorie S. Greenway in 1944, and died in 2014.
Natalie Elaine Joyce was awarded a BA Hons in History, First Class, in July 2012
Trevor Millum was born on 11 September 1945. He was educated at Woking Grammar School and studied History at the University of Birmingham from 1964 to 1967 before completing a PhD at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Visual Communication in Advertising, later published as Images of Woman. While at the Centre he edited the first edition of the CCCS Journal: Working Papers in Cultural Studies.
He then trained as a teacher at the University of Zambia and taught History, Geography, and English for three years in Zambia at Nchelenge Secondary School, Luapula Province before returning to the UK where he taught in Cleethorpes and Barton-on-Humber. He also worked at United World College of South East Asia in Singapore before becoming an advisory teacher for English and ICT when he returned to Humberside. Later he also worked in software design for education and wrote guides and resource materials. He has worked with educational publishers to produce innovative teaching materials, focusing on creativity, poetry and ICT. He A lifelong member of The National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE), he became its Director of Communications and Development 1999-2005. He is the creator of and poet in residence at Teachit’s Poetry Place, for which he has written over 150 teaching resources. He writes stories and poems for children and his poems are widely published and anthologised