Marcus Collins is a historian of contemporary Britain. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and Columbia University and currently teaches at Loughborough University. He is the author of The Beatles and Sixties Britain, Modern Love, co-author with Peter Stearns of Why Study History? and editor of The Permissive Society and Its Enemies. He was appointed as the AHRC BBC 100 Fellow in 2022 to stage events commemorating the BBC's centenary.