Miltiadis Spiratos is a historian and documentation specialist at Athens Microfilm Services, working for the General State Archives. He holds a BSc in History and Philosophy of Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MA in Modern and Contemporary History from Panteion University, with a thesis on the Don Pacifico Affair, the London Times, Palmerston and antisemitism. His interests include nineteenth-century Greek and European history, Greek-British relations under King Otto, and gunboat diplomacy. He has worked as a research assistant at the University of Athens and as a historian at FORTH’s Institute for Mediterranean Studies.