Mark Ravinder Frost is Associate Professor of Public History at University College London (UCL). He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he graduated with First Class Honours, and completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 2002. He is the author of SINGAPORE: A BIOGRAPHY (2009; 2012, co-authored by Yu-mei Balasingamchow) which in 2010 won the Asia Pacific Publishers Association Gold Medal and was selected as a CHOICE ‘Outstanding Academic Title’. This book was based on his work as Content Director and Senior Scriptwriter for the National Museum of Singapore’s award-winning Singapore History Gallery (2006-15). Mark has been involved in other exhibition design and documentary film ventures, writing and co-producing the television programmes I REMEMBER: THE FALL OF SINGAPORE (2017) and the three-part LOVE IN A TIME OF CHANGE (2018). He is also the writer, co-director and an executive producer of the feature-length documentary SCENE UNSEEN, an exploration of counter-culture music in post-independence Singapore.